Technocrati, User Rank: Ninja 1/18/2016 | 8:32:49 PM
Re: Yahoo!
@jastroff I agree with your skepticism regarding large datasets. I suspect you are correct, by the time anything useful can be gleaned it will be outdated and useless.
I am sure the data is encrypted but there is always the possibility it can be un-encrypted and then what do we have ?
Any academic would like to see Amazon's business plan and tax statements. We can do much more with that than large datasets. But I'm just jaded...sorry
Well, ok. But as one of those reseachers who had access to large datasets from various places in a past life, it took a long time for any results and mostly, they were grant funded and not many people cared. They could be conference papers or dissertations, and they were out of date before they hit the page.
This may be different with Google, etc. but I'm not seeing anything that says "hey, this is why more men than women or more kids than adults do x and why" or "people in Georgia don't access online news..."
And if I did see it, the world is changing so fast, and the data changes with it, I'm not sure it would make a difference. Do you, Brian?
Now I would be interested in hos governments and other organizations are using the data -- they might get something out of it when added to everything else they know. But maybe not.
>> Google is great in this regard. Any individual can utilize Google's real-time and stored data to research the keywords that users are typing into their search engine. The research can be split into geographic and demographic data and, Google does not mind with the data is being utilized for commercial or academic concerns.
danielcawrey, User Rank: Ninja 1/16/2016 | 4:29:42 PM
Re: Yahoo!
I had never previously considered the challenges researchers have accessing large datasets. I'm sure this release of data from Yahoo is going to make a number of academics really happy. Most big data is understandably kept locked up by the owner, but hopefully we're going to see more massive datasets released for research. It might lead to a better understanding of what all of this data we generate really means.
Brian.Dean, User Rank: Ninja 1/16/2016 | 3:35:37 PM
Re: Yahoo!
Google is great in this regard. Any individual can utilize Google's real-time and stored data to research the keywords that users are typing into their search engine. The research can be split into geographic and demographic data and, Google does not mind with the data is being utilized for commercial or academic concerns.
Brian.Dean, User Rank: Ninja 1/15/2016 | 1:21:57 PM
Yahoo!
This is a great move by Yahoo as the data could be utilized to explain and/or build new theories in social sciences, etc. I wonder if limiting the data set to a quarter of a year's data will prohibit academic institutions to research seasonal changes in user interaction or whether the data is already large enough that academic institutions will spend years processing it.
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1/18/2016 | 8:32:49 PM
@jastroff I agree with your skepticism regarding large datasets. I suspect you are correct, by the time anything useful can be gleaned it will be outdated and useless.
I am sure the data is encrypted but there is always the possibility it can be un-encrypted and then what do we have ?
Sounds to me like a data breech.