NLA Ltd was delighted to be ask to join a panel on Big Data at the recent Digital Ship CIO conferencein Singapore.

This is a hot topic, and will only increase in importance when you consider that the data analysis market as a whole is predicted to grow to $203bn by 2020, up from $130bn in 2016.

While acknowledging that there is great potential for Big Data within shipping, we were keen to point to other sectors for examples of where data had been used successfully. We present below a small selection of the dozen case studies we referenced on the day.