Assignment 5 - RXNorm and MEDCIN

The world’s “digital universe” is in the process of generating 1.8 Zettabytes of information

With continuing exponential growth this projects to 40 Zettabytes in 2020

Two put this into perspective, 1ZB is 1000 EB or a billion TB.

Five exabytes (10^18 gigabytes) of data would contain all words ever spoken by human beings on earth

The source?

Over 5 billion mobile devices in use worldwide. Each call, text and instant message is logged as data. Mobile devices, particularly smart phones and tablets, also make it easier to use social media and use other data-generating applications. Mobile devices also collect and transmit location data

Billions of internet transactions – purchases, funds transfers, share trades – every day, including countless automated transactions. Each creates a number of data points collected by retailers, banks, credit card issuers, credit agencies and others

Millions of networked electronic devices – including servers and other IT hardware, smart energy meters and temperature and other sensors – all create semi-structured log data that record every action

Hundreds of millions of social networking users and resources. Each Facebook update, Tweet, blog post and comment creates multiple new data points, both structured and unstructured

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