Hacking the matrix: Leveraging big data within the creative process
Greg GetnerY&R Chicago
Does Big Data inspire or hinder creative thinking?
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Big Data has the ability to inspire creative thinking, but the ability for it to do so is mostly a function of the amount of insight that we are able to divine from it. Otherwise Big Data lives just as it is, like the ongoing stream of green pictogram code raining down in the Wachowski brother's movie The...