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2018_EJRNL_PP_SARAH_WILD_1.pdf
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Data scientists in South Africa are preparing to be inundated by a flood of information that is due to crash over them when the country’s biggest radio telescope doubles the scale of its operations in March. A terabyte-an-hour data deluge, which would fill more than three DVDs a minute, will flow from a network of radio dishes called the MeerKAT array. Currently consisting of 32 operational dishes