Archive for April, 2015

Big data

CONTRIBUTED BY SILVIA GAMUNDI

In 1966 the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University started a research project funded by the National Institute of Health to analyze agricultural data for improving crop yields. They studied variables such as temperature, grain type or fertilizer variety in order to identify patterns that turned out into better harvests. This is one of the stories commonly used to go back to the origins of Big Data, and also the birth of SAS ...

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