Today’s theme: Big data

In the near future every object on earth will be generating data including our homes our cars and even our bodies. All the data processing we did in the last two years is more than all the data processing we did in the last 3,000 years. Where does it end? Are we simply repeating the old Islamic problem of the wheat and the chessboard? And can big data not tell us if this has actually happened all before, or not?

>>>The Conversationalist with Matt Stiles

Data Journalist and LA Times Special Correspondent in Seoul

“How would you define big data?

How can we utilize such massive open data online?”

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Eric Siegel

Founder of Predictive Analytics World

author of award-winning

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

“One of the columns on your website, quoting another data scientist Stephens-Davidowitz, says, “the things that people type into the Google search bar reveal far more about a person than any in-depth interviewer could ever dream of.” How powerful does this make Google, or Facebook, or other internet service providers?”

>>>A Few Minutes with Amos

I saw this guy playing what looked like an upside down dented bowl with a sign that said “Give me money to travel for free around the world”

I found out that this is a new trend called “beg-packing” where people beg for money to fund their travel

There’s a lot of controversy around this as there are people doing this in less privileged countries where people actually need the money.

Next week: “Super” woman