So when do the new terabyte iPods come out?
The Economist on using data:
"Alex Szalay, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, notes that the proliferation of data is making them increasingly inaccessible. 'How to make sense of all these data? People should be worried about how we train the next generation, not just of scientists,but people in government and industry,' he says.
"Alex Szalay, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, notes that the proliferation of data is making them increasingly inaccessible. 'How to make sense of all these data? People should be worried about how we train the next generation, not just of scientists,but people in government and industry,' he says.
'We are at a different period because of so much information,' says James Cortada of IBM, who has written a couple of dozen books on the history of information in society. Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, calls it 'the industrial revolution of data'. The effect is being felt everywhere,from business to science, from government to the arts. Scientists and computer engineers have coined a new term for the phenomenon: 'big data'."
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