Big Data

From the NY Times:

Welcome to the Age of Big Data. The new megarich of Silicon Valley, first at Google and now Facebook, are masters at harnessing the data of the Web — online searches, posts and messages — with Internet advertising. At the World Economic Forum last month in Davos, Switzerland, Big Data was a marquee topic. A report by the forum, “Big Data, Big Impact,” declared data a new class of economic asset, like currency or gold.

Hmph. Someone still needs to, you know, make things. I like how they use Moneyball as an example. I'll make these data-fetish folks a deal: they can use their data and I'll take good pitching and we'll see what happens.