It's just very time consuming to get such a large quantity of data.

要收集这么多的数据就是非常耗时。

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The quantity of data likely to be produced is anybody's guess.

对于任何人来说，可能产生的数据总量都还是个未知数。

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Scalability a "measures the number of users and quantity of data that the system can handle."

可伸缩性——测量系统可以处理的用户数和数据的数量。

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Most of us appreciate this new ease in exploring the vast quantity of data on the Internet (and the vast quantity of activity generated by our friends).

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And the quantity of such data has exploded: more than 80% of a typical company's information is now unstructured, according to some estimates.

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Forty computer programmers from Facebook, Google and Amazon and Citizen Science Alliance are spending the next three days brainstorming in London trying to devise a game that we can all download as an app that will mean whilst we "play" we are also analysing the vast quantity of gene data that is out there.

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