Category Archives: Scientific applications

Big Data Quotes of the Week

Posted on July 13, 2012 by GilPress

“In traditional biology research, people ask a key question, or run a trial. They make clinical and molecular measurements to address that question. They use some statistics or computation. Then they validate what they’ve found in another, more advanced trial. … Continue reading →

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The Trouble with Big Data

Posted on May 5, 2012 by GilPress

Douglas Merrill, former CIO/VP of Engineering at Google, has issued an important warning about big data: “With too little data, you won’t be able to make any conclusions that you trust.  With loads of data you will find relationships that … Continue reading →

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Big Data Quotes of the Week

Posted on May 4, 2012 by GilPress

“Data Science is just a buzzword that sort of appeared recently around the idea of people who build mathematical models of data and then explain them to human beings.”                   —Hilary Mason … Continue reading →

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Data Scientists–Dairy Scientists and the Ranking of Bulls

Posted on May 2, 2012 by GilPress

Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic: “Data-driven predictions are responsible for a massive transformation of America’s dairy cows. While other industries are just catching on to this whole ‘big data’ thing, the animal sciences — and dairy breeding in particular — … Continue reading →

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Future Solutions to Big Data Requirements

Posted on June 4, 2011 by GilPress

Two news items, the first on a cloud computing environment distributed over PCs contributing their available storage and computing capacity as a cost- and energy-efficient solution to processing an exabyte (1 billion gigabytes) a day of raw data; the second … Continue reading →

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