By Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet
Rick Smolan who is working on “The Human Face of Big Data” project said, in an interview with ZDNet on Friday: “I really think that [big data] is going to change everything about every way that we behave.” The American journalist who is noted for his “Day in the Life” photography series will be putting a “human face” to big data in a photobook set to launch in November. “[Visualizing big date] is much more difficult because it’s not people sitting in front of computers. It’s got to be something that brings the story to life in a very compelling way,” he said. “Everyone I talked to had a different definition of big data,” said Smolan. He added that people said it was “more data sitting on a computer”, while someone else said, “no, it’s not about the size of data but data collected by different organizations for different reasons and overlapping them to extract meaning”.
http://www.zdnet.com/how-do-you-take-a-photograph-of-big-data-7000004352/?s_cid=e539
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