Featured in Solar Superheroes – 09-2015

Big data and PV

Using big data: Data, data everywhere: More sophisticated methods of data harvesting are continually emerging on the tech scene. And with so much to be gleaned, learned and earned from Big Data, the solar industry is rubber-necking for a piece of the action.

By

Jonathan Gifford

27 Aug 2015

Some of the numbers behind big data are astounding. According to information compiled by the U.K.’s Business Insider, more than 90% of the world’s data were created in the last two years. A laptop such as the Apple MacBook Air contains enough data to fuel two million trips to the moon, based on the amount …

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