Challenges with big data

The spread of social media and smart devices has accelerated in recent years, and huge quantities of digital data are now being produced and stored throughout the world. We can safely say that the era of “big data” is now upon us. The term “big data” suggests that creating new values from such huge quantities of diversified data will have a big influence on industry and society. To make full use of machine learning, parallel distributed processing, and database techniques for big data analysis, we have founded the Machine Learning and Data Science Center (a cooperative unit involving NTT Research Laboratories). The center would grow into a base for innovative big data business in various fields such as security, life science, communication traffic, and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) which are important and closely related to NTT business.