Thursday, May 31, 2012

Today's Big Data links

Here are a few posts of interest from the last few days regarding Big Data.  In the Columbia Journalism Review, "When Big Data is Bad Data" concerns the controversy over public posting of teacher rankings based on questionable metrics.  From the Wall Street Journal's "CIO Report" blog, "Taking Small Steps to Big Data" presents views on Big Data that were aired during the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

"When Big Data is Bad Data"
http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_press_and_standardized_tes.php?page=all

"Taking Small Steps to Big Data"
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/05/24/taking-small-steps-to-big-data/



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