Sources that use Big Data

  • social media
  • music
  • search engines
  • pandora/Spotify (music apps)
  • things that I like on twitter, Facebook, or Instagram
  • google maps
  • find my iPhone
  • weather
  • texting/ phone calls
  • siri
  • reminders/calendars
  • emails
  • pictures
  • facetime

There are a numerous amounts of databases that are using Big Data, these are just some of them. Without even knowing you are adding to Big Data everything you click on, look up, or favorite is being calculated into huge algorithms. Some places such as car dealerships use Big Data to estimate when customers are going to buy more cars by analyzing when they are searching the cars. That is just one example out of a variety of uses.