Big Numbers in the News

[Bill (Smithville NJ)]

(06-07-2014 08:18 PM)Egan Ford Wrote:  Define "reviewed".

There's an entire field call Big Data Analytics that deals with giving structure and results to masses of unstructured data.

If I had to guess, a "program", reviewed 41 million documents.

Quite correct. I started reading the actual report and they do describe how they created a database with xx terabytes of data. Then they searched it.

The problem with this technique is that you must read between the lines of the documents to really understand the subtext of what the interaction is between the parties. For example, few people will actually write that something is unsafe. They will write in a very passive method that only vaguely touches on the real problem, if it even touches on the problem at all. Most companies will actually discourage anyone actively describing the problem.

Bill