Big Data big business White House launches big Data research and development initiative

Beijing Time March 29, the Obama administration on the White House website published the Big Data Research and development initiative, it is proposed that through the collection of large and complex digital data and the acquisition of knowledge and insights to enhance capacity, and help accelerate the pace of scientific and engineering discoveries, strengthen U.S. homeland security, change education and learning model.

At the same time, 6 United States federal departments and agencies have pledged to provide more than $200 million of new dollars to be used to significantly improve the tools and skills necessary to acquire, organize and gather knowledge from massive data information. And revealed a number of ongoing federal government plans to deal with the big data age and the big data revolution brought about by the opportunities and challenges.

The initiative suggests that the federal government also wants to work with industry, research institutes and non-profit organizations to meet the challenges of opportunities created by big data. pointed out that the government alone is clearly clap. And as the president has said, it takes all of us to "work together" to meet the big time and the big business.

Some large U.S. companies are already sponsoring big data-related contests and funding large data studies for colleges and universities. Some universities have also started creating big data-related new courses, all of which will foster the next generation of "big data scientists." Organizations, such as data without Borders, also provide assistance through unpaid data collection, analysis, and visualization as non-profit organizations. The United States Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) also suggested that it would be happy to support a new forum dedicated to the promotion of large data-related partnerships between public organizations and the private sector.

As part of the U.S. government's Big Data program, March 30, the National Institutes of Health announced the world's largest data collection on genetic variability-the International Millennium Genome Project (up to about 200TB so far), with support from Amazon's free cloud Services (AWS). Tom Kalil, deputy director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology policy, also said in his blog that some people, research universities, nonprofit organizations and some management departments who want to make a difference in the big data industry should take full advantage of the opportunities generated by this big data.