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Filings buzz: 30% increase in big data mentions in Q2 of 2022 

The filing published in the second quarter of 2022 which exhibited the greatest focus on big data came from Erdemir. Of the document's 2,780 sentences, 10 referred to big data. 

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Mentions of big data within the filings of companies in the mining industry rose 30% between the first and second quarters of 2022. 

In total, the frequency of sentences related to big data between July 2021 and June 2022 was 279% higher than in 2016 when GlobalData, from where our data for this article is taken, first began to track the key issues referred to in company filings. 

When companies in the mining industry publish annual and quarterly reports, environmental, social and governance reports and other filings, GlobalData analyses the text and identifies individual sentences that relate to disruptive forces facing companies in the coming years. Big data is one of these topics; companies that excel and invest in these areas are thought to be better prepared for the future business landscape and better equipped to survive unforeseen challenges. 

To assess whether big data is featuring more in the summaries and strategies of companies in the mining industry, two measures were calculated. Firstly, we looked at the percentage of companies which have mentioned big data at least once in filings during the past twelve months; this was 57% compared to 24% in 2016. Secondly, we calculated the percentage of total analysed sentences that referred to big data. 

Of the 10 biggest employers in the mining industry, Caterpillar was the company which referred to big data the most between July 2021 and June 2022. GlobalData identified 25 big data-related sentences in the US -based company's filings, equal to 0.4% of all sentences. Sibanye-Stillwater mentioned big data the second-most; the issue was referred to in 0.18% of sentences in the company's filings. Other top employers with high big data mentions included Honeywell, ThyssenKrupp and CIL. 

This analysis provides an approximate indication of which companies are focusing on big data and how important the issue is considered within the mining industry, but it also has limitations and should be interpreted carefully. For example, a company mentioning big data more regularly is not necessarily proof that they are utilising new techniques or prioritising the issue, nor does it indicate whether the company's ventures into big data have been successes or failures. 

GlobalData also categorises big data mentions by a series of subthemes. Of these subthemes, the most commonly referred to topic in the second quarter of 2022 was “data analytics”, which made up 72% of all big data subtheme mentions by companies in the mining industry. 

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