I have an interest in Big Data because I was involved in an early use of Big Data. Not as early as the Roman military use, but more connected with physics. I was connected with the creation of a large, for the time, collection of every x-ray wavelength measurement.
In the history referenced by Paul, the characteristics of Big Data were directed into three phases. The characteristics of the first phase were present in my database, but many characteristics of the next two phases were not because the web was essentially not created at that time.
The collection was mined for different kinds of information, mostly concerned with the x-ray wavelength scale and the energy levels of all the elements.
The mined data was interesting and resulted in several papers and a book which are still referenced several times a month even now.
Alex. F. BurrIn a message dated 11/17/2022 12:44:31 PM Mountain Standard Time, Paul.Nord@valpo.edu writes:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 1:19 PM Alex. F. Burr via Phys-l <phys-l@mail.phys-l.org> wrote:
a tangent.
But can anybody tell me the name (and any other info) of the first data collection that could be called "big Data"? (and when it was created or used)
Alex. F. BurrIn a message dated 11/17/2022 11:45:03 AM Mountain Standard Time, Paul.Nord@valpo.edu writes:
Gathering ideas into a couple of lists here.