Big Data is not the Big Bad Wolf
Smitha VasudevanMalayala Manorama
Does Big Data inspire or hinder creative thinking?
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The 'sage' must distinguish between 'knowledge' and 'wisdom', according to the Indian Upanishads. In the confluence of the real and the virtual world, the limitless expanse of Big Data demands such sages to comprehend and conceptualise new truths. The Data–Information–Knowledge–Wisdom pyramid has never been more apt than it is now, if we truly imagine what wisdom entails. Elusive and hard to...