The Economist reports: "Data, Data Everywhere"

This Special Report on Managing Information (25 February 2010) explores the "unimaginably vast amount of digital information" collected from a number of systems around the globe, and the complex issues that go along with archiving, accessing, managing, and securing enormous volumes of information. The report includes articles on how computers process our "world of big data", the need for international data rules, and new ways of visualizing data.

Contents in The Economist Special Report:

• Information has become superabundant
• Too much data
• Information is changing business
• How internet companies profit from online data
• Governments are becoming more open about data
• News ways of showing data
• The uses of information about information
• New regulations
• How machines deal with information

The Economist website: http://www.economist.com/