Sources of Big Data
Video streaming (applications, websites,
conferencing, networks)
Social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
Baidu, WhatsApp)
Emails
Cloud computing storage and platforms (i.e.,
energy, financial, commercial, health care,
transportation)
Internet of Things (routers, networks, sensors,
chips, M2M, P2P)
Geospatial information (GPS, satellite, IP,
geocached)
Video cameras (IP, private, satellite, commercial,
public, private, security)
Videogames: mobile, online, network, and single
player (game servers)
Apps: streams, stores, and networks
Dark web domains and dark networks (illicit
online communities, auctions, exchanges,
markets)
Industrial and manufacturing systems, local and
networked
Financial transactions (banks, commercial,
sovereign, individual)
Telecommunications user transactions (VoIP,
P2P, M2M)
Search engine usage (i.e., keywords, images, audio,
video)
Telecommunications networks (IP, cellular, POT,
satellite, mesh)
Mobile and online web chat and messaging
information
Digital crypto-currency transactions (Bitcoin,
Ethereum, P2P, P2M, M2M, mobile, online, offline,
local device)
Health care information and transaction devices and
networks (quantified self, commercial, personal
fitness)
Mobile and internet image networks (storage,
collaborative, cloud)
Cross-border sovereign and commercial transaction
and information flows (air, sea, land supply chains,
logistics, distribution networks)
Cloud storage networks for every government and
industry
Media networks (entertainment, business,
government, public)
Physical information storage (not digital, online or
accessible by network)
Human genetic information databases
AIs (chatbots, trading algorithms, digital agents)
