Big Data - Tim Smith
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There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades - stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst 'solving' their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN's involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today.
What is the difference between structured and unstructured data, and where can you typically find each type? Which type makes up the largest fraction of Big Data today? What extra challenges do unstructured data present to mining and analysis?
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Meet The Creators
- Director Biljana Labović
- Animation Artist Celeste Lai, Lisa LaBracio
- Composer Corey Allen Jackson
- Sound Designer Jennifer Lewis
- Educator Tim Smith
- Narrator Tim Smith
