Hey! I Got a Question About That

What is Big Data? How Does Data Get Big?

December 02, 2019 The Penn State Eberly College of Science Season 1 Episode 8
Hey! I Got a Question About That
What is Big Data? How Does Data Get Big?
Show Notes

BIG DATA: Francesca Chiaromonte, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences at Penn State, joins Nate and Sam in the studio to talk about data, BIG data. Massive amounts of data are being collected constantly from genome sequences, to digital health records, and trends on social media. What is making the data so big? What are statisticians doing to manage this influx of information?

Links to Francesca's work:

- Francesca's website: https://sites.psu.edu/chiaromonte/

Links to the Eberly College of Science:

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- Eberly College of Science Twitter - https://twitter.com/PSUScience
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- Eberly College of Science Website - http://science.psu.edu/