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Frontiers in massive data analysis

"With information available from Internet sites around the globe and flowing over communication networks connecting billions of devices, today's society has access to an enormous amount of data. Scientific communities and the defense and intelligence enterprise are also generating massive amounts of data from experiments, observations, and numerical simulations. Some Internet-based companies are dealing with data measured in exabytes (a billion billion bytes), and many other sources are producing terabytes or even petabytes of data. While systems have been developed to store and manage such massive amounts of data, some of which streams by and is only examined "on the fly," our ability to infer knowledge from data at this scale is limited. A major challenge is developing statistically well-founded procedures that allow us to control the inevitable errors; many traditional tools of data analysis are not feasible at this scale.

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