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The Age of Big Data
Title
The Age of Big Data [electronic resource (video)] / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], c2013.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (53 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
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Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 21, 2014.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is underway; the police are trying to predict crime, before it even happens. At the heart of the city of London, one trader believes that he has found the secret of making billions with math. In South Africa, astronomers are attempting to catalog the entire cosmos. These very different worlds are united by one thing - an extraordinary explosion in data. Horizon meets the people at the forefront of the data revolution, and reveals the possibilities and the promise of the age of big data.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2013.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
8 & up.
Contents
Data Explosion (1:35)
Predicting Crime with Data (4:37)
Developing a Crime Pattern Model (2:19)
Self Excitation Algorithm (3:15)
Predictive Policing (3:59)
Epidemiology Founder (4:23)
Mining a Genetic Database (3:32)
Analyzing Market Behavior (3:53)
Predicting Market Behavior (6:22)
Analyzing Consumer Behavior (2:43)
Decision Theory (4:49)
Predicting Consumer Behavior (2:16)
Analyzing the Cosmos (4:30)
Cataloging the Universe (3:01)
Credits: The Age of Big Data (0:45)
Data! (16:00)
Videorecording number
55683 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
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