Big Data Is Complex: Cluster Analysis Can Make It A Little Simpler

Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 15:10 in Mathematics & Economics

'Big data' means a lot of things to a lot of people but generally it is used to indicate huge amounts of information, like texts or keywords, in use at any time by billions of people. Though it has many cultural upsides, tracking flu epidemics, monitoring road traffic in real time, or handling the emergency of natural disasters, those are all sunk costs, which means government and that means a lot of poorly-functioning government websites. Big data will be used by marketing people before it gets adopted by social services. read more

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