With an avalanche of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used to change our lives and does it have a darker side?
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Can big data save lives?
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Forget YOLO: Why ‘Big Data’ Should Be The Word Of The Year : NPR
"Big Data" had just as much to do with President Obama’s victory as phrases like "Etch A Sketch" and "47 percent," says linguist Geoff Nunberg. Big Data is also behind anxieties about intrusions on our privacy, whether from the government’s anti-terrorist data sweeps or the ads that track us on the Web.
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/20/167702665/geoff-nunbergs-word-of-the-year-big-data
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New Technologies Boosted Obama Campaign’s Efforts : NPR
Robert Siegel speaks with Harper Reed, who was chief technology officer for the Obama reelection campaign, about the strategies they employed to mobilize volunteers and reach voters.
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Following Digital Breadcrumbs To ‘Big Data’ Gold : NPR
In the past couple of years, computing, storage and bandwidth capacity have become so cheap that it’s altered the scale of what’s possible in terms of collecting and analyzing data at every turn. It’s a tectonic shift that will continue to affect many things we do for decades to come, one expert says.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/29/142521910/the-digital-breadcrumbs-that-lead-to-big-data?device=iphone
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Episode 0.1.8 - NoSQL Smackdown!
Nerds talk big data at SXSW 2010.
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Data, Data Everywhere
Interview with the author of the recent Economist special report on Big Data.
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