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Source: Significance Magazine, January 2014 (www.statslife.org.uk/history-of-stats-science/1190-the-timeline-of-statistics).

Source: Significance Magazine, January 2014 (www.statslife.org.uk/history-of-stats-science/1190-the-timeline-of-statistics).

Source: Significance Magazine, January 2014 (www.statslife.org.uk/history-of-stats-science/1190-the-timeline-of-statistics).

Source: Significance Magazine, January 2014 (www.statslife.org.uk/history-of-stats-science/1190-the-timeline-of-statistics).

Virginia Tech Department of Statistics Timeline

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Department Est. 1949 1936: Fisher’s Iris Data

Size: 2,218 bytes(3 flower types x 4 variables x 50 observations)

Business e-mails sent per year:2,986,100 terrabytes (Tb)

Content uploaded to Facebook each year:182,500 terrabytes

Google’s search index:97,6560 terrabytes

Kaiser’s digital health records:

30,720 TbYouTube videos uploaded/year:

15,000 Tb

Large Hadron Collider

output/year: 15,360 Tb

Source: Wired Magazine (www.wired.com/2013/04/bigdata/)

US Census Bureau data: 3,789 Tb

National Climatic Center database: 6,144 Tb

NASDAQ stock market database: 3,072 Tb

Library of Congress digital collection: 5,120 Tb

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