The Big Data Revolution for Breast Cancer Patients
Quantmetry, Data Science Consulting 128 rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France, Issam Ibnouhsein, Stéphane Jankowski, Quantmetry, Data Science Consulting 128 rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France, Karl Neuberger, Quantmetry, Data Science Consulting 128 rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France, Carole Mathelin, Unité de sénologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France · European Journal of Breast Health · 2018
The origins of Big Data date back to 1941, when the first references were made to the notion of "information explosion" in the Oxford Dictionary of English.James Maar has highlighted in 1996 in a report of the National Academy of Sciences the concept of "massive data set" (1).But it was only in 1997 that the precise term 'Big Data' first appeared in an article in the Digital Library of the Association for Computing Machinery (2), referring to the technical challenge of analyzing large sets of data.It has since been used to designate "structured or unstructured data, whose very large volume requires adapted analysis tools".Web giants (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Twitter) have developed such tools over the past decade, ensuring a constant marginal cost of data exploitation, regardless of volume.