February 2015
Beginner to intermediate
498 pages
16h 57m
English
Chapter 22
Elena Strange
Effectively working with and leveraging Big Data has the potential to change the world. Indeed, in many ways, it already has [1,2]. Summarizing today’s conventional wisdom, in PANEL Crowds, Clouds, and Algorithms, Doan et al. [1] credit the pervasiveness of Big Data to the “connectivity of billions of device-enabled people to massive cloud computing infrastructure, [which] has created a new dynamic that is moving data to the forefront of many human endeavors.”
If there is a ceiling on realizing the benefits of Big Data algorithms, applications, and techniques, we have not yet reached it. The research field, initially coined “Big ...