Competing in the Information Age

We live in the information age, when infinite quantities of facts are widely available to anyone who can use a computer. Today, data is being created on a scale far beyond a human's ability to process. This activity is important because future business leaders must be able to collect, analyze, and evaluate masslve amounts of data daily to remain competitive.

The goal of this activity is for you to recognize the different terms associated with data in the information age.

Instructions: Match each term to its correct definition.

$1$

Internet of Things $($I$0$T$)$

$5$

Human$-$generated unstructured data

$2$

Unstructured data

Machine$-$generated unstructured data

$3$

Machine$-$generated data

$7$

Machine$-$to$-$machine

$($M$2$M$)$

Human$-$generated data

Structured data

Match each of the options above to the items below.