I truly hope that we can quickly find a way to realize this the full potential of big data for social good.
Big Data: lots of social, cultural, political implications, not yet figured out.
Thank to the ubiquity of big data about social interactions, computational models of social phenomena are becoming more accurate in forecasting complex social phenomena.
"The use of big data and social media can allow for the scale, speed and specificity that most traditional approaches [to fighting crime] lack," Igarapé Institute director Robert Muggah told IRIN from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he manages security and development projects across the region.
Technology is driving research, with the analysis of big data from social media transforming where and how visitors can be monitored.
I, for one, am greatly encouraged about our collective future and the role of big data and social media is amplifying change and growth.
As we close out the fall semester with final examinations and look ahead to 2013, the emergence of "big data," analytics and social media will redefine our politics, social business and curricula.
CCMS is characterized by its revolutionary nature in the properties of real-time, big data based, social network correlated, and complexity.
The best thing about the elections from a social media perspective was the masterful use of big data combined with social targeting and incentivization that absolutely produced results.
In 2016, big data and social data will have to merge in order to maximize the potential of both channels.
