Data & Data Engineering — the past, present, and future

How did data get so out of hand?

Data has been part of our identity as humans since the time of the ancient Romans. Our growing interconnectivity caused us to bump into scale issues during the 1880 US census. We’ve gone from 0% of the world on the internet to 59.5% of the world. 4.32 billion people with cell phones generate quite a huge data feed.

How has humanity dealt with the need t…