The Great Courses - Big Data: How Data Analytics Is Transforming the World - Tim Chartier, Ph.D.
Category: Documentary
Narrator: Ph.D.
Tags: Documentary, Education, Computer, Adults
Data is everywhere, shedding light on all aspects of life. Retailers know whats selling and whos buying. Pollsters test opinions on everything from candidates to consumer goods. Doctors follow their patients vital signs. Social networks register the interactions of millions. Sensors measure the changing weather. And as athletes play, fans collect exhaustive statistics on their performance., If something can be measured, then in all likelihood a vast archive of data is already being compiledand it is growing daily. Often, the data is unprocessed, waiting for someone to analyze it and discover new, valuable knowledge about the world., This is the role of data analytics, a powerful set of tools for making sense of datasets of all sizesfrom a personal exercise log to the massive collections of big data that define our information age. From science to sales, from sociology to sports, data analytics is unraveling the fascinating secrets hidden in numbers, patterns, relationships, and informa
