[Year 12 IT Apps] BIG DATA video

[Mark]

A very interesting documentary on the use of massive data sets to predict
crime, earthquakes, plagues etc.

The Age Of Big Data
Aired - 6 January 2014 on SBS ONE
Expires - 20 January 2014, 9:30pm

http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/98877507712/The-Age-Of-Big-Data


Every day we produce more data than the human race did from the dawn of
civilisation until the year 2000. Twitter, search engines, scientific
experiments, stock markets - these colossal databases can be mined for
valuable, sometimes mind-blowing, insights using the most sophisticated
algorithms ever created. This documentary explores how scientists are using
technology and innovation to search data. From the police department who
are using an algorithm to predict where crime will strike next, to a mobile
phone app that knows that you are unwell before you do, to the man whose
$5.5 billion hedge fund uses cosmologists, code breakers and particle
physicists to inform decisions. (From the UK) (Documentary) G CC


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