THE HUMAN FACE OF BIG DATA | Big Data History | PBS

THE HUMAN FACE OF BIG DATA premieres Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET on PBS.

In the past we thought of things, we wrote it down and that became knowledge. Big Data is kind of the opposite. We have a pile of data that isn’t really knowledge until we start looking at it and shifting it into this interesting piece of information.