"Big Data" in the Ascendant China is moving in tandem with the world

Victor Maire-Schoenberg, known as the "prophet of the Big Data Age", was a professor at the Internet Institute at Oxford University Network Institute and author of the Big Data age. Britain's Economist magazine, the United States "Science" magazine are respected as the most important large data researchers.

Albert-Laslo Barabasi, Global Network Research Authority, professor of Northeastern University, founder and director of Network Science Research Center, academician of the American Physics Association, academician of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the European Academy of Sciences, author of the "Outbreak".

Recalling the various technological revolutions in modern history, China is a learner. In this one change, China and the world are the smallest distance, even in many areas there is the possibility of innovation and leadership. As long as we embrace the Big data era with an open mind, innovation and courage, we will be able to seize the opportunity that history has given China innovation.

--From the great data Age recommended preface

Recently, this newspaper specially invited the publisher Dong Ji on the big data and large data age issues, dialogue the world renowned two large data research authority experts-"Large data Times" author Victor Maire-Schoenberg and the "eruption" author Albert-Laslo Barabasi.

Bringing the "third Industrial Revolution"

Q: The big Data age is very popular in China and is praised by practitioners in the relevant fields as "the best large Data book to date". Why do you think of the big data age as a "big change in life, work and thinking"?

Victor Maire-Schoenberg: In the past 30 years, the personal computer industry and telecommunications industry has undergone great changes, we have a lot of very powerful tools, but they are often idle. In my opinion, big data is a kind of value, methodology, we are faced with not random samples, but the whole data, not precision, but mixed, not causal relationship, but related relations. This is a big change in thinking, but also a process of interaction-you can use different angles and different ways to enlarge the data, and get the difference between the results and benefits.

Q: How do you understand the profound business insights from the great data age described in the book, and thus the big changes that help humans make smarter decisions, as the "third Industrial revolution"?

Victor Maire-Schoenberg: The real revolution is not in the tools of data analysis, but in how we use the data, and there is no doubt that new technologies to collect and analyze massive amounts of data will help us better understand the world. Big data is like a jigsaw puzzle that we can now put together to form a virtual actuator that pushes the world forward.

The big data age has given everyone a tool to make judgments and decisions based on reason, and in the past we have been able to make judgments based on reason, but at that time only large companies were able to pay the cost, but now every ordinary person has the ability. From scientific research to medical insurance, from banking to the Internet, almost all areas are experiencing explosive data growth and being changed by new ways of thinking, and recognizing that "correlation is enough, cause and effect is not important", so that all walks of life and every ordinary person can use a simple approach, very low price costs, Enjoy the benefits of big data. So, big Data brings the "third Industrial Revolution" of mankind.

Help people to grasp the future

Q: What is the core of big data? What opportunities and challenges will this bring us?

Albert-Laslo Barabasi: Prediction based on relational analysis is the core of large data. The advent of the big Data Age has created an excellent opportunity for such predictions. As I said in the outbreak, we have ample evidence that most human behavior is governed by laws, models, and principles, and that their reproducibility and predictability are comparable to natural science, and that 93% of human behavior can be predicted. These discoveries are not scientists ' rhetoric, and some of these models and principles have produced huge market value. More importantly, by finding a connection and monitoring it, we can predict the future, we can read the rhythm of history, and then find the key to the future.

China is in sync with the world

Q: How do you view the current development of large data in China?

Victor Maire-Schoenberg: During my stay in China, I was able to meet with a number of experts and good business leaders in related fields. I am very pleased that the big data age has received great recognition from many experts in China. Big data even in Silicon Valley is in the ascendant stage, and I am delighted to find that China has a lot of companies in practice, on the big data, China is in sync with the world.

In addition, I would like to say that, just as soldiers fight, the war must be the last experience, thinking that the future of the war and the war is the same, so what we are talking about now is the former big Data age pattern. But the big data age is likely to spark new business models and new business relationships.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)