Big Data, Big Ideas
(World News Science)

With the surge of devices that generate enormous amounts of information (think Internet of Things) and major advances in the computing power of our machines, we are awash in an unprecedented amount of data. This phenomenon, in turn, opens up possibilities for how this data may be used, and how it can be handled. And it will all be addressed in a new lecture series at UC Santa Barbara. Created by faculty members in UCSB`s Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (PSTAT), leaders in the diverse fields that generate and rely on massive...