Here’s a video that publicises Rick’s latest project on exploring and explaining the potential of Big Data. Big Data is like the web before we called it Web 2.0 – we’ve got some of the basic technologies but we’re still figuring out what we can do with them.
Rick makes a great point: “Just imagine if your whole life you’ve been looking though one eye, and all of a sudden a scientist created a way for you to look out of both eyes…What if you could open a third eye … or thousands of eyes?”
Big Data gives us access to many new perspectives because Big Data is like the minute-to-minute personal diary of everyone and everything.
Duncan R Shaw - The qualitative data scientist 