Jonah Engler on Using Big Data and Math to Create a Better World

How Big Data & Math Create a Better World

When you scratch away all the assumption, hyperbole, and talking points, Big Data is really just another way beautiful math makes our lives that much prettier. Beautiful math? Yep. If Wordpress thinks code is poetry (it is) than computer scientists can call Big Data science full fledged symphonies of grace and style. The math is intricate and interlaced and can be massive and confusing to the unlettered, but it is, all the same, magnificent, manageable, and poignant.

Beautiful. Why? Well, for one, because Big Data is not just a marketing application. It’s much bigger, broader and more important than marketing. Big Data is helping socially conscious scientists tackle some of the world’s most complex and perpetual social issues. Big Data allows scientists to connect the dots in ways that were previously impossible. They can see where and how causal factors fit better and, because of this, find better ways to treat both the symptoms and the underlying problems.

And these results are coming from scientists working in the big data field. Here’s one example: data mapping.

When many laymen think of big data they picture the equivalent of endless poppy fields stretching into infinity, each blade and blossom a single disconnected datum that is randomly collected, collated, and … hopefully … connected. That is exactly … wrong.

In fact, data scientists are able to use mapping programs to ferret out significant or interesting data from massive stockpiles. What makes that data interesting and why it might be significant is determined by the bot’s programming. And, of course, as robots get “smarter� and the science gets more refined, the progress is faster and more impactful.

The worlds of medicine, banking, defense, civil government, and sustenance — both regionally and globally — are making great strides thanks to the increasing effectiveness of Big Data analysis.

When we don’t know what the real problems are, Big Data helps us find the answers, and when we know what the problems are but don’t really understand them, Big Data is helping with that too.

Best of all, Big Data allows researchers to learn the right questions to ask ‌ and when they are asking the wrong questions. Because, when you want to solve a problem, you better know what to ask. That’s a question Big Data is helping answer every day, better and better.

Jonah Engler is a New York based entrepreneur, full time stock broker, franchise owner, and avid coffee drinker.

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