Future Solutions to Big Data Requirements
Two news items, the first on a cloud computing environment distributed over PCs contributing their available storage and computing capacity as a cost- and energy-efficient solution to processing an...
View ArticleData Scientists–Dairy Scientists and the Ranking of Bulls
Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic: “Data-driven predictions are responsible for a massive transformation of America’s dairy cows. While other industries are just catching on to this whole ‘big data’...
View ArticleBig Data Quotes of the Week
“Data Science is just a buzzword that sort of appeared recently around the idea of people who build mathematical models of data and then explain them to human beings.” –Hilary Mason...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Big Data
Douglas Merrill, former CIO/VP of Engineering at Google, has issued an important warning about big data: “With too little data, you won’t be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of...
View ArticleBig Data Quotes of the Week
Atul Butte, associate professor and chief of systems medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford “In traditional biology research, people ask a key question, or run a trial. They make clinical and...
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