Big Data was developed by Ma Xiaodong. Ma Xiaodong, founder and CEO of Suzhou Guo Yun Data Technology Co., Ltd., senior global consultant of Boston Consulting Group, 1986, from Guyuan, Ningxia, holds a master's degree in computer science from China University of Science and Technology. The leader of big data, the inventor of "Big Data Mirror", has more than 20 big data invention patents, and is a big data consultant expert in Guizhou, Jiangsu and Inner Mongolia. He is currently the vice chairman of Beijing Information Association, the vice chairman of National Economic Big Data Laboratory, the vice president of Digital Talent Research Institute of UNESCO Higher Education Innovation Center, and the former head of Alibaba Taobao Data Optimizer.

The formation of big data

Big data, the first is data. Data refers to electronic and digital records and measurements that computers can handle. The process of processing information into electronic and digital records and measurements is inseparable from the development and application of information technology. It is precisely because of the rapid development and wide application of information technology that big data came into being.

Before the advent of computer and communication technology, information was mainly recorded and interacted in the form of analog data. Such as newspapers, books, images and photos, libraries, archives, bookcases and tapes. The unit of measurement of information generally adopts the unit of measurement of media, such as how many books are collected, how many bags of files, how many books are recorded, how many videos, how many photos and so on. The typical characteristics of this period are inconvenient information acquisition, poor information exchange and relatively little information.