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As mentioned by Study.com “Whenever you send an email, read a social media post, or take pictures with your digital camera, you are working with digital data.”
These days, digital data is everywhere. Digital Data has become an essential part of our daily life. Sending an email, chatting over WhatsApp, taking and sharing pictures over Instagram are all forms of digital data. Nowadays, Internet has become a basic need. With just a few simple clicks, we can discover an endless world of data either in form of text, photos and videos. Bernard Marr , an enterprise tech expert at Forbes says: “ The amount of data we produce every day is truly mind-boggling. There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day at our current pace, but that pace is only accelerating with the growth of the Internet of Things.”
On a personal level, I was always passionate about Data and the Digital World. I remember sitting beside my father while working on his Windows 2002 computer. I was always eager to know more about this machine, and how we can implement it in something useful. At the age five, my father traveled abroad and left me his computer. I used to sit hours, trying to discover it, trying to get to know more about its functionality; even though it was not even connected to the outside world through internet. Around the beginning of 2004, I learned about Skype and I was amazed by the fact that we use our computer to connect to the outside world and video call someone abroad. I used to go to the electronics store to buy internet cards “Cyberia Internet Cards” and connect my computer to the internet using our landline. I remember the first time I saw my father live through the computer screen, and it was like a dream at that time !
At my eighth grade, I started watching tutorials on YouTube about coding, and I remember creating my first mobile game “Fly and learn prime numbers” for a competition. The game was about facilitating prime numbers learning, it was more like a clone for a well-known game at that time “Flappy Birds”, where the kids have to let the parachute pass through the cloud holding a prime number. You can access this game at : http://arcade.gamesalad.com/g/119599.
Later on, I started producing some graphic designs as a freelancer for several startups. This ranged from creating logos to creating user interface for applications and websites. My last project in the Digital world was creating my own startup website for women’s clothing luxeclothing.co , I just finished my website at the beginning of this semester . As for now, I am facing the burden of competing with other well known websites in this niche, and looking for creative ways to market this website using Social media (Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook) and Google ads. At the beginning, I thought it was easy to see results and conversions on my site directly after I launch it, but now I am discovering how difficult it is to gain the confidence of the customers and to convert them from site visitors to potential buyers.
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Nowadays, the world of digital data is continuously evolving. According to Bernard Marr “Over the last two years alone 90 percent of the data in the world was generated.”. Everyday, tons of data is being generated and the technological advancements are growing at an exponential rate. Ten years ago a video call was more like a dream ! So where do you think the digital technological evolution is going to take us in the next ten years ?
Works Cited
“How Much Data Do We Create Every Day? The Mind-Blowing Stats Everyone Should Read” https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/05/21/how-much-data-do-we-create-every-day-the-mind-blowing-stats-everyone-should-read/
“What is Digital Data ?” https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-digital-data.html
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