Do You Know - Big Data Facts

Not sure how accurate these facts are, but seems to be interesting. 

1. Every two days we create as much information as we did from the beginning of time until 2003. 

2. Over 90% of all the data in the world was created in the past 2 years. 

3. By the end of the year 2020, digital information will be grown to 40 zettabytes. source

4. The total amount of data being captured and stored by industry doubles every 1.2 years. source

5. Every minute we send 204 million emails, generate 1.8 million Facebooks likes, send 278 thousand tweets, and upload 200,000 photos to Facebook. source

6. Google processes on average over 40 thousand search queries per second, making it over 1.5 billion in a single day. source 

7. Around 100 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube every minute and it would take around 15 years to watch every video uploaded by users in one day. source

8. If you burned all of the data created in just one day on DVDs, you could stack them on top each other and reach the moon, Twice. source 

9. AT&T is thought to hold the world largest volume of data in one unique database, its phone records database is 312 terabytes in size, and contains almost 2 trillions rows. source

10. 570 new websites spring into existence every minute of every day. source

11. Today's data centres occupy an area of land equal in size to almost 6,000 football fields. source 

12. The NSA is thought to analyse 1.6% of all global internet traffic - around 30 petabytes every day. source

13. The Value of the Hadoop market is expected to soar from $2 billion in 2013 to $ 50 billion by 2020. source

14. The number of bits of information stored in the digital universe is thought to have exceeded the number of stars in the physical universe in 2007. source

15. The boom of the internet of things will mean that the amount of devices connected to the internet will rise to 50 billion by 2020. source

16. 12 million RFID tags used to capture data and track movement of objects in the physical world had been sold in by 2011. by 2021 it is estimated that number will have risen to 209 billion as the internet of things takes off. source