Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Age of Big Data

Big data, big careers:
Veteran data analysts tell of friends who were long bored by discussions of their work but now are suddenly curious. “Moneyball” helped, they say, but things have gone way beyond that. 
“The culture has changed,” says Andrew Gelman, a statistician and political scientist at Columbia University. “There is this idea that numbers and statistics are interesting and fun. It’s cool now.”
To see the whole article:  http://goo.gl/iLQNE

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