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Will Big Data Make Free Will Irrelevant? – Big Think

In Crime and Punishment, the Russian student Raskolnikov kills a pawnbroker to test his Nietzschean hypothesis that certain people transcend morality and therefore have the right to commit murder. In Albert Camus’s novel, The Stranger, Meursault confiscates a revolver from his friend Raymond with the ostensible purpose of preventing Raymond from doing anything impulsive with the weapon. Meursault then proceeds […]

DNA + Fossils = The Big Data of Life | In Their Own Words | Big Think

What’s incredible about genomics is its ability to get a lot of data really fast in a way that can be analyzed in very useful ways. So when you think about a museum – that is where our culture stores and preserves all the samples of all the rest of the types of life on the planet. We have […]

IBM buys Aspera to speed up movement of big data – BetaNews

IBM buys Aspera to speed up movement of big dataAspera can move big data to and from the cloud faster than traditional methods whilst providing predictability, bandwidth control and security. This benefits companies such as media organizations uploading TV shows and movies for streaming, medical research companies sharing genome data, or any organization trying to share and synchronize […]

AirPR's new analytics service counts on big data to … – The Next Web

PR marketplace AirPR recently launched Analyst, an analytics service for companies that measures the effectiveness of their public relations campaigns.It’s not often we see tech-related developments in the oft-maligned PR industry, so we chatted with co-founder Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer to learn more about its efforts to put big data to work for publicists and CMOs.Fouladgar-Mercer came up with the idea for […]

Who's Getting Rich In The Big Data Gold Rush? – ReadWrite

We’re in the midst of a Big Data Gold Rush, with VCs throwing cash at anyone and everyone with a Big Data idea. But as Cowen & Co. analyst Peter Goldmacher posits, the Big Data financial opportunity has three phases, with Big Data users, not vendors, standing to make the most money in Big Data’s third and final phase.
Big Data’s […]