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"Here's the thing. Data, big, medium or small, has no value in and of itself. The value of data is unlocked through context and presentation." And others will argue for 'actionable' data. Data beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A VC's take on analytics.

4 min video on how data science is today where computer science was 30 years ago...

lots of VC flowing into big data startups...

big student data

Good overview of different hadoop providers...

Big Data Gap

good article for our opening week on trends and factors driving analytics

Note: I am involved with this project and can answer questions. As might be expected, the article makes things sound further along than they actually are.

good chart at the end of the article comparing different IaaS solutions

outstanding implementation of big data to addressing poverty and social concerns.

I am not sure where there is direct relevance to Learning Analytics. There is no doubt that mining the public data of social network will be useful for identifying trends, possibly with implications for learning. The big unknown is how reliable is it? Are these networks representative of a population or specific group? I am not convinced of that.