Point of view: Big Data can be creative
Faris YakobGenius Steals
Does Big Data inspire or hinder creative thinking? Or is Watson the creative of the future? I love data - it's great.
I'm fond of knowing lots of things. I used to read encyclopedias as a kid. Sometimes I still do, when I find an old one lying around a holiday home, say. Do you remember when Google launched and suddenly the web made some weird kind of sense? I do. It was magical. Suddenly you weren't poring over endless pages of keyword searches on Alta Vista to...