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A brief history of data and how it helped change the world

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Data collection is what we do. Today, we think of Big Data as a modern concept. Cloud storage, text mining and social network analytics are vital 21 st century tools. King Ptolemy I Soter set about creating the largest collection of data (then) known to man, an institution known as the Library of Alexandria. .

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