Managing the highs and lows of data overload
In a world of overflowing data, learning to manage the surge of information is more important than ever before, write Kyle Murray and Dominic Thomas in this crossposting from The Conversation.
We live in a world with a lot of data. In fact, we’re bombarded by it.
Estimates suggest that today we take in about five times as much information as we did 25 years ago, and that we process as much data in a day — approximately 34 gigabytes — as our 15th-century ancestors would have in their lifetimes.
We tend to think of all that data as a rather cold and rational collection of numbers. Yet, on an individual level, the information we process is often quite emotional.
