The world is awash in data. Every minute of 2017, Americans used over 2.6 million gigabytes of data, the Weather Channel received over 18 million forecast requests. YouTube viewers watched over 4 million videos. Twitter users sent over 446 thousand tweets. Google conducted over 3.6 million searches.Over 90 percent of the world’s data has been created in the last two years – over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day.