Visual Capitalist July 16, 2019
The sun never sets on the creation of new data.
Yes, the rate of generation may slow down at night as people send fewer emails and watch fewer videos. But for every person hitting the hay, there is another person on the opposite side of the world that is turning their smartphone on for the day.
As a result, the scale of data being generated—even when we look at it through a limited lens of one minute at a time—is quite mind-boggling to behold.
The Data Explosion, by Source
Today’s infographic comes to us from Domo, and it shows the amount of new data generated each minute through several different platforms and technologies.
Let’s start by looking at what...