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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...

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Data 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’...

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Big 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...

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The 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...

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Big 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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