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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Who has 460 terabytes of data?

Walmart does. Here's an interesting article about Walmart and their obsession with collecting data. By the way, 460 terabytes is more than twice the size of the internet! Among its other uses, all that data let Walmart predict that people in Florida would buy more beer and strawberry pop-tarts before the hurricanes hit. Go figure..

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