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Daily Dashboard | Opinion: Exploring the Cultural Context of Big Data Related reading: OPC details lessons learned from CRA, ESDC breaches

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In a GiGaom blog post, Jiyan Wei queries whether Big Data is "just a fad or something more profound?" Wei writes that Big Data can potentially help us make better decisions and is mainly comprised of two parts--technological innovation and cultural evolution. Some of the "unique attributes" of Big Data, according to Wei, are the rise in popularity of social media, which has "created a living, breathing archive of human activity"; the "broader cultural and institutional shifts" of data to the cloud, and a "new age of openness and transparency." Wei notes that "making more data available is just one-half of the Big Data equation," adding, "The other half is how we make sense of that data." Meanwhile, COMPUTERWORLD reports on investors "pouring" funds into Big Data.
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