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23 Digital jungle 02 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE EXTRAS Listen to a conversation about big data. Are the statements below true (T) or false (F)? T F 1 The internet is just one source of big data among many. 2 The Library of Alexandria was a vast analogue data mine in its time. 3 Only a very small amount of the overall information available in the year 2000 was analogue. 4 Datafication is a process that hasn’t started yet. 5 Knowing the causes behind things is the goal of the big data approach. 6 The ‘faster horse’ example shows that data isn’t everything. Listen again and take notes. 1 What examples are given of ‘datafied’ aspects of the world? 2 What does ‘the change from causation to correlation’ refer to? Compare your notes with a partner. IBM claims that we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. Look at the illustration below. What sources of new data does it show? a LiSTEning 12 TCD  1/04 b c a SPEaKing 13 The world of data Number of emails sent every second In the 21st century, we live a large part of our lives online. Almost everything we do is reduced to bits and sent through cables around the world at light speed. This is a look at just some of the massive amounts of information that human beings create every single day. Sources: Cisco; comScore; MapReduce; Radicati Group; Twitter; YouTube Data consumed by households each day Video uploaded to YouTube every minute Data per day processed by Google Total minutes spent on Facebook each month Data sent and received by mobile internet users Products ordered on Amazon per second Tweets per day Talk in pairs. What do you think are the implications of datafication:   for your data security and privacy?   for the data security of the companies initiating, handling and analysing the big data volumes?   for hardware and software if you want to keep the systems alive? The CEBS (Center für berufsbezogene Sprachen) is holding a competition in report writing. The ten best submissions will be published in a brochure to be used in English at technical colleges. You decide to submit a report about the implications of big data and datafication for everyone’s life. In your report, you:   summarise the facts and ideas about datafication you collected in the previous exercises.   analyse the implications of datafication for data security and privacy.   predict some major future developments with regard to big data. Divide your report into sections and give them headings. Write around 250 words.  Writing guide, Report , p. 187. b WRiTing 14 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv