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By the year
((First two words are blue, "year" is white))
2018 2019 2020
((2019 is three times as large as its neighbors))
all information
[[graph to the right, with a line that trends upwards towards "all" at a point marked 2019]]
will be
(("will" and "be" are labels for segments of a pie chart))
[[a large 6 with "years from now" next to it, and below that, a large 72 with "months" broken over two lienes next to it]]
communicated
[[Two figures face each other, with the "communicated" in a speech bubble rising up from one of them, the other saying "yes!"]]
in this
((the "in" is the label for a dimensional indication, which spans the much larger "this"))
clear and concise
((each of the above words is in a segment of a venn diagram))
f o r m a t
((each letter is the label of a bar on a bar chart, with the heights equal to the letter's position in the alphabet))
{{Title text: 'Big Data' doesn't just mean increasing the font size.}}
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