Best Ted Talks about Big Data

Here are some of the best Ted Talks about Big Data

1. Big Data, Small World: Kirk Borne at TEDxGeorgeMasonU

Dr. Kirk Borne speaks about some of the best ideas applied behind data mining and how it can be applied to our daily lives. He also talks about the ‘small world phenomenon’ and ‘6 degrees separation’. Later, he reveals some surprising statistics of big data which promises that the future world will be driven by data.

2. Kenneth Cukier: Big Data is Better Data

Kenneth speaks on using data available at the granular level. He says every byte of data has some information to reveal, all it requires is an engineer to discover. He says that the data available on planet right now is enough to solve most difficult answers of the questions we are trying to find. Data has made us more powerful.

3. What to do with all this Big Data?

Susan shares her perspective on the rise of big data and the different ways of using data for its optimal utilization. Data doesn't create meaning, we do. Data offers us a vast ocean of information which has to be churned to extract useful insights.