Author: Joseph Konopelski
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Data Science: Beyond the hype of ‘big data’
By Joseph Konopelski, Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering—These days it seems like everyone’s talking about “big data.” If you google “big data in the news,” you’ll find a surprisingly large number of articles published in the past few hours. But what is big data? And why, beyond all the hype, is it important?