What is Super Crunching?
It is statistical analysis that impacts real-world decisions. Super Crunching decisions usually bring together some combination of size, speed, and scale. The sizes of the data set are really big – both in the number of observations and in the number of variables. The speed of the analysis is increasing…. Increasingly, business and government datasets are being measured not in mega- or giga-bytes but in tera- and even peta-bytes of text… Google has about four petabytes of storage which it is constantly crunching.
Courtesy: “Super Crunchers: How anything can be predicted” by Ian Ayres & Books Page of The New Indian Express, Madurai, Sep.16, 2007.
It is statistical analysis that impacts real-world decisions. Super Crunching decisions usually bring together some combination of size, speed, and scale. The sizes of the data set are really big – both in the number of observations and in the number of variables. The speed of the analysis is increasing…. Increasingly, business and government datasets are being measured not in mega- or giga-bytes but in tera- and even peta-bytes of text… Google has about four petabytes of storage which it is constantly crunching.
Courtesy: “Super Crunchers: How anything can be predicted” by Ian Ayres & Books Page of The New Indian Express, Madurai, Sep.16, 2007.
Grateful thanks to Ian Ayres and The New Indian Express.
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