Academician Wang Chulo: Large data-driven change in decision making mechanism

"Large data is a new strategic resource in the age of Digitalization, which is of great importance to the development of the country and society." China should vigorously promote the large data research and industrial development, and to promote the decision-making mechanism and social and economic development and transformation of various undertakings. "At the opening ceremony of the" Environmental Protection Data Research Center of Xian Jiaotong University, "Wang Chulo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said.

Wang Chulo says the world is now in an era of exploding data. In the long run, the development of large data is not only the development of science and technology, but also the change of decision-making mechanism, which leads to the transformation from experience decision and quantitative decision to big data decision. "It should be said that every unit in the community has a lot of data, but not every unit has the ability to use the data well, so it spawned a big data industry." ”

In Wang Chulo's view, large data is a new strategic resource in the age of digitalization, which is changing the production and life style of human beings, which has great effect on the development of the country and society. In recent years, large data has aroused great concern among scientific and technological circles, industry and government departments.

For example, in 2012, the United States launched the Big Data Development Program, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Ministry of Defence and other 6 federal departments and agencies to improve the collection, storage, retention, management, analysis and sharing of data, the core technology needed to expand the large data technology development and application of the supply of talent needed. At present, the United States has formed a large data industry, in the enterprise development, national defense construction has played a huge role.

China's large data research started a little later, but it has aroused great attention of the state. The National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and other departments are working together to develop large data core technology to make full use of the strategic resources of data. "The scale of our economy is so great that once there is a big data analysis tool, it will make the economy grow faster and larger." Therefore, China should vigorously promote large data research and industrial development. Wang Chulo stressed.

Wang Chulo has its own opinion on how to play a better role in large data research and industrial development in colleges and universities. He believed that the university should carry on the big data research, must closely unify the national reform development the need. For example, diseases such as geriatrics and chronic disease need to be diagnosed and treated by large-scale data analysis to promote the reform and development of medical and health undertakings in China. In this sense, large data research is not only scientific research, but also a major cause for China's socio-economic development. ”

To this end, Wang Chulo suggested that large data research must exert the advantage of multidisciplinary crossover and integration. For example, management, mathematics, information and other disciplines of research focus is different, some research how to dig and collect data, and some research data management and analysis, they have a division of labor, more cooperation. In order to use large data to make scientific decisions, it requires the cross fusion of different disciplines.

He also said that in order to strengthen cooperation and exchanges with renowned international academic organizations, universities and research institutions, to closely monitor and follow up the research hotspots in large data-related fields, and to promote exchanges and discussions with renowned experts and scholars in this field, and to enhance the level and influence of large data research in China. In the field of large data research, how to change from "runner" to "parallel" "leader", there is a lot of work to do.

At present, China does not have a large list of data related disciplines to train specialized personnel, can only borrow the existing relevant professional, training large data direction of talent. To this end, Wang Chulo stressed that large data research and industrial development to solve the key problem is talent, this is a priority. "China needs to establish a complete set of large data talents to train professional system, curriculum system and teaching material system as soon as possible." ”

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)