"I may have been misguided in spending so many years searching for it, but in a way, with this laboratory data and all the Herschel data, we can really say well, we do understand it now".
It goes without saying that this data can be really valuable, if we learn how to use it well, and we must have a way of preserving it, not just for posterity, but for persistent use and re-use.
So by using the tabulated data, we can really determined heats of formation for most reactions that you might contemplate, OK?
"Mass customization" is an overused phrase and it's been around for a while, but in this era of big data we can really do that.
They're starting to grapple with the fact that harnessing their own data... can really help them".
Without the online release of information about campaign contributions, lobbying, state contracts, and other "influence data", no government can really claim to be fulfilling its promise to be open or to provide open data". The data on the new website is sourced directly from the relevant state agencies.
This is where big data and analytics can really shine, in applications such as predictive maintenance.
"Data can be a really and interesting and valuable thing, particularly when we have millions and millions of users, but you would need to do it in such a way that users understand how their data is being used, and they approve," he says.
We have so much data available now that can really help us understand what effect things are having, but that data isn't always employed.
