1. Collecting, processing & understanding lots of information
Big Data & Privacy
Collecting,
processing & understanding
lots of information

2. “Big Data” Big – Massive; vast; very, very large
Data – measurements, records, #numbers
Big data is analyzing data sets so large, traditional methods do not work – so we need to employ computing.
Being able to capture and analyze data and use to understand our world.

3. Kenneth Cukier – Big data is better data

4. What could we measure? What might we figure out with what we have measured?