Nigeria, March 2 -- Economic and social activities are always generating vast quantities of data daily. The constant generation of data through social media, business applications, and telecoms has resulted in the creation of enormous volumes of information.
The high-speed growth in the volume and variety of data is attributed to the rapid evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the increasing digitisation of production and business processes. This generation of continuous and massive data can be referred to as big data.
It is reported that about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day. This big data can be transmitted, collected, aggregated and analysed to provide insights into processes and human beh...