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The evolutionary process of IT concept words: A case study on bigdata

In information technology (IT), new concept words appear every few years and affect the business environment. In several cases, the core technologies and architectures have remained the same despite minor changes in concepts. For example, grid computing is the forerunner of cloud computing and bigdata is now regarded as a part of the Internet of Things (IoT). The trend in concept words reveals an evolutionary pattern. In this study, we applied a text mining approach to analyze all the articles published in several popular IT magazines in the period of 2002-2015. This analysis revealed a gap between cloud computing and bigdata in the evolutionary process of IT concept words. An evolutionary model was identified that reached cloud computing, indicating that another episode of evolution might start from bigdata. We focused our analysis on the evolution of previous major concept words and examined emerging concepts, which reveal a trend from a human-oriented to a machine-oriented world; the former world is characterized by advancements in social networking and the latter is based on advancements in artificial intelligence. As a result of this analysis, we can determine a turning point in concept evolution, i.e., the change from computing series to data centric. Understanding this phenomenon facilitates detailed interpretation of concept evolution.