The landscape of large-scale data technology has changed dramatically, and 2015 was the year that Big Data become part of our everyday vernacular. From IBM marketing Big Data solutions at Grand Slam tennis events to numerous shows on Amazon and Netflix being produced based on data findings, Big Data is no longer an esoteric topic for programmers and scientists. Now, marketers, salespeople, executives, and many other business units of organizations are thinking about how Big Data can help them. There is even a band called “Big Data.”

In this article, we look at some major ways in which Big Data has become as mainstream as “social media” and “cloud computing”—as well as several examples of Big Data’s impact on the legal world.

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