Big Solutions In Big Data

Some might say we’re drowning in data: we currently generate 2.5 quintillion bytes every day through emails, photos, social media, transactions and even our supermarket rewards cards! Capturing ‘big data’ offers a host of opportunities and possibilities for understanding our behaviour in areas such as commerce, health and town planning. However there are complex challenges in analysing, storing, and visualising this information, and social and ethical considerations around our regulating data capture to protect our privacy.

Join Prof Vonu Thakuriah from from Glasgow University, with Dr Pippa Wells of CERN and David Richardson and Prof Sarah Cunningham-Burley from The University of Edinburgh for a discussion about big data, the solutions it may offer and the problems it may present.

Held in the main hall.