Four tales of data

Scenario - Four young students on Spring Break go to Honduras in search of the roots of big data. Each comes back with a story. Together they tell of a struggle entwined. Look at data anew through the eyes of four groovy undergrads. Not yet rated.

Oceans of data - Hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean, Laura Robinson probes the steep slopes of massive undersea mountains. She's on the hunt for thousand-year-old corals that she can test in a nuclear reactor to discover how the ocean changes over time. Big data is her co-pilot

https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_robinson_the_secrets_i_find_on_the_mysterious_ocean_floor

Lord, bless your data - Thomas Bayes writer F.T. Flam [I am not making this up] says set out to calculate the probability of God's existence. This was back in the 19th Century in jolly old England. The math was difficult and really beyond the ken of calculation of the time - until the recent profusion of clustered computer power came around the corner in the early 2000s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bayes

Autopilot and the roots of cybernation - Elmer Sperry's son Elmer’s son, Lawrence Burst Sperry, nicknamed Gyro, was best known for inventing the autopilot utilizing the concepts developed by his father for the gyroscope. Alas he was lost off the Channel when only 31.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/568649890431580951/

I was just trying to help people. The story by Veronique Greenwood tells us she wrote of her experience in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, and was subsequently warned by her bosses not to do that kind of query again. Assumedly HIPPA privacy concerns are involved – so get out the anonymizer and gun it, right?!

http://itsthedatatalking.blogspot.com/2014/10/calling-dr-data-dr-null-dr-data-for.html

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