Big Data: New oil in the wrong engine
Richard Shotton and Richard ClayZenithOptimedia
Does Big Data inspire or hinder creative thinking?
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The debate over the impact of Big Data has been characterised, ironically, by a lack of data. Big or small. Without the ballast of evidence, the opposing camps have drifted off into either eulogising or cynically dismissing it. Neither attitude is helpful.
Big Data, like all technologies and techniques before it, can either help or hinder creative thinking. A...