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Big Data: Immediate Opportunities And Longer Term Challenges, Jens Pohl, Kym Jason Pohl
Big Data: Immediate Opportunities And Longer Term Challenges, Jens Pohl, Kym Jason Pohl
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The transformation of words, locations, and human interactions into digital data forms the basis of trend detection and information extraction opportunities that can be automated with the increasing availability of relatively inexpensive computer storage and processing technology. Trend detection, which focuses on what, is facilitated by the ability to apply analytics to an entire corpus of data instead of a random sample. Since the corpus essentially includes all data within a population there is no need to apply any of the precautions that are in order to ensure the representativeness of a sample in traditional statistical analysis. Several examples are …