According to the Times Leader, a company in Ohio was big data before big data was cool. The  Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus is a chemical research clearinghouse that contains everything there is to know about chemicals. With the information available to researchers world wide.

Epic Systems, a provider of electronic health record systems, acknowledges that big data is an important part of the healthcare industry, reports Health IT Analytics. And, systems should be designed to utilize that information.

Big data can be used to help keep the food supply chain safe, reports Forbes.