How big data is changing the world

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Insurers welcome the availability of more information on their insureds, but the handling of so much data presents many challenges. Sam Barrett investigates.

There has been something of a data explosion in the past decade. A new term, zettabyte, equivalent to one million terabytes, was coined two years ago to describe the huge volume of information stored

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