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Digging for Gold
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Waters, John K. – Campus Technology, 2012
In the case of higher education, the hills are more like mountains of data that "we're accumulating at a ferocious rate," according to Gerry McCartney, CIO of Purdue University (Indiana). "Every higher education institution has this data, but it just sits there like gold in the ground," complains McCartney. Big Data and the new tools people are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Data, Data Processing
Big Data: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
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Waters, John K. – Campus Technology, 2012
Colleges and universities are swimming in an ever-widening sea of data. Human beings and machines together generate about 2.5 "quintillion" (10[superscript 18]) bytes every day, according to IBM's latest estimate. The sources of all that data are dizzyingly diverse: e-mail, blogs, click streams, security cameras, weather sensors, social networks,…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Data, Information Utilization, Information Management