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Today’s burgeoning interest in big data offers tremendous potential for driving services that promise to transform our future. That promise, though, doesn’t come without significant effort.
Harnessing the power of big data requires an unprecedented understanding of complex systems. Scalable computational tools are a necessity, as is the ability to comprehend and devise the sorts of scientific questions to extract meaning from masses of data.
But that’s not all, says Sharad Goel, senior researcher at Microsoft Research New York City.
