Sublime

But big data are big nothings unless you have the tools to process and yield actionable insights for your business.

new and existing data sources for patterns, events, and opportunities at an unprecedented scale and pace.

Sapiens evolved in the African savannah tens of thousands of years ago, and their algorithms are just not built to handle twenty-first-century data flows.

from the processing and analysis of it and the insights, products, and services that emerge from analysis.

Google changed the world with the realization that even though the crowd’s online content was uncontrolled, it wasn’t disorganized. It, in fact, had an extremely elaborate and fine-grained structure, but not one that was consciously decided on by any core group of humans. Instead, it was a structure that emerged from

age of data.

We need to think more about mining our own output to extract patterns that turn our raw personal data stream into predictive, actionable information.

As the size of datasets balloons almost beyond the scope of our imagination, it becomes all the more important to continually audit them to check for the possibility of error.