New York Times:
Welcome to the Age of Big Data. The new megarich of Silicon Valley, first at Google and now Facebook, are masters at harnessing the data of the Web — online searches, posts and messages — with Internet advertising. At the World Economic Forum last month in Davos, Switzerland, Big Data was a marquee topic. A report by the forum, “Big Data, Big Impact,” declared data a new class of economic asset, like currency or gold.
Industrial landscape, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 2006.
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Sometimes I learn things about my work through newspaper articles. My favorite quote:
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Physics student Andrew Oriani diagrams patron movement at the Cleveland Museum of Art to better understand how visitors walk through a museum.
50 years of government spending, in a single graph by Lam Thuy Vo for NPR.
