Big Data is less about the data itself and more about what you do with the data. The application of statistics and statistical principles on the data helps you extract the information it contains.

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Ahead of the opening of the UN Statistical Commission on Tuesday next week, a seminar on “Big Data for Policy, Development and Official Statistics” will be held in New York on 22 February. The event ...

The Second Global Conference on Big Data for Official Statistics will take place on 20-22 October in Abu Dhabi. Innovations in technology, widespread penetration of electronic devices, and the rapid ...

“Data” is the watchword of the progressive gov tech professional today. If we can put a number to a problem — quantify it, catalog it, assault it with an avalanche of analytics — all will be well.

Michael S. Malone’s “The Big-Data Future Has Arrived” (op-ed, Feb. 23) provides an interesting overview of the benefits being made possible through the abundance of data and the capabilities to ...

According to IBM, about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day—enough to fill about 57.5 billion 32 GB iPads daily. Some of these data are gathered by scientific instruments measuring ...

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