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two different types of data - “consumer data” which holds strict ethical and legal regulations yet provides insight into individuals viewing habits; and “system data” that provides information on how network devices operate
Frontiers | Big Data of the Past | Digital Humanities
"This article introduces and discusses the concept of Big Data of the Past. It is based on the hypothesis that data bigness is relative and that history is punctuated by several Big Data moments which are characterized by a widespread, shared sense of information overload alongside rapid societal acceleration accompanied by the invention of new intellectual technologies."