As Laura Gordon-Murnane notes in this article posted on Information Today, “Big Data is hot, hot, hot!” So hot that the Federal government wants a piece of the action, or at least a leading role in the necessary “all hands on deck” approach described in this article. Ms. Gordon-Murnane makes her case by referencing a March 29th report on the Federal government’s Big Data Research and Development Initiative as well as a President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology report released in December 2010 and a May 2011 report by McKinsey Global Institute titled “Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity. Ms. Gordon-Murnane’s article highlights the need for a collaboration “between government and industries, research universities, and nonprofits” that “will be better equipped to take advantage of the huge potential that Big Data has to offer.”
She ends the article by pointing to “a Big Data fact sheet that showcases more than 80 projects offered by federal agencies and departments including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Energy, and the US Geological Survey.” (In fact, the ATG NewsChannel reported last week that UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science professor Dr. Richard Marciano’s CI-BER project was included in the White House “Big Data” announcement.)
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