Creative Convergence: Why bigger data is key to creativity
Eliana RittsFlamingo
Does Big Data inspire or hinder creative thinking?
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When you think about Big Data, what comes to mind? Is it numbers? Algorithms and analytics? Or maybe, as a 2011 McKinsey report puts it, "datasets whose size is beyond the ability of typical database software tools to capture, store, manage, and analyze".
But what we're calling 'big' isn't big enough. It's time to expand our notion of Big Data, to...