1.2 History of Big Data
Big Data was first used in the 50s, but not in the same size and scale as it is today. Even back then businesses understood the importance of collecting data to figure out the market. But back then they used to collect the data with basic analytics. This process is when they would use spreadsheets to collected information they deemed important, the spreadsheets were manually examined.
Over the years big data has evolved becoming more efficient and has a much faster process. Over the years the process of big data analytics has improved so much that in the 50s big data needed manual spreadsheets to a few years ago where data collected would be used to forecast future business decisions to now where data collected can be used directly to influence the business. This gives the organizations a way to keep on top of the market.

Big Data - Ali Hashim