[LINK] SBS: The Age of Big Data

[Jan Whitaker]

Monday night

The Age Of Big Data

     8.30pm - 9.30pm
     SBS ONE
     Tonight

Every day we produce more data than the human race did from the dawn 
of civilisation until the year 2000. Twitter, search engines, 
scientific experiments, stock markets - these colossal databases can 
be mined for valuable, sometimes mind-blowing, insights using the 
most sophisticated algorithms ever created. This documentary explores 
how scientists are using technology and innovation to search data. 
 From the police department who are using an algorithm to predict 
where crime will strike next, to a mobile phone app that knows that 
you are unwell before you do, to the man whose $5.5 billion hedge 
fund uses cosmologists, code breakers and particle physicists to 
inform decisions.


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit at janwhitaker.com

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how 
do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
~Margaret Atwood, writer

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