There is a certain absence of grace in the cliché of an autistic little boy, Silencio, who has a genius for data retrieval.
He is IBM's resident genius on data – it's his job to bring sense to a seemingly senseless world that is spewing out more and more data.
In 2012, the Obama campaign was widely celebrated in news stories for its mastery of Big Data, and its genius at data mining it to get out the vote.
In the last year, the garment maker sent at least 22 shipments, totaling 80 tons, of sports bras through the Port of Newark, according to customs records compiled by Import Genius, a data consultant for the import-export industry.
Of course, anyone could enter a few functions into excel, pound the table to defend certain assumptions and declare themselves a data genius.
Of course, anyone could enter a few functions into excel, pound the table to defend certain assumptions and declare themselves a data genius.
We can fly under the radar with third-party vendors and employ interns who are data geniuses fresh out of college and eager to make an impact.
Phones facilitate far more than real-world interaction ever allowed from dating app geniuses who use data and game theory to hack the system to the darker side of digital love, where app addiction runs rampant and users find themselves endlessly swiping in an empty search for more.
But there it was, in a conversation with the genius who saved my data.
"A big part of the liquidity is wagered in unregulated markets where there is no transparency and it's very hard to monitor patterns," says Moritz Maurer, head of eSports integrity at Genius Sports, a sports data technology company.
