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IS BIG DATA A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR COMPANIES? Interview with Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa

"Meet the Life Sciences" interview with Paolo Ferragina, SoBigData datascientist at University of Pisa.

People talk a lot about Big data but sometimes they don't really know their real potential. Big data are very large collections of data: it isn't possible to analyze and store Big data without any help of appropriate technologies and algorithms. Who does make big data? How can those informations help enterprises to improve their business or internal processes? We asked these and other questions to Paolo Ferragina, Professor of Algorithms at Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa. Ferragina is involved in SoBigData - Social & Mining Big Data Ecosystem, the network of seven European centers, which provides information, tools and skills to lead scientist on large and small trials of big data analytics by researchers, innovators, startupper, policy-makers and public institutions.

You can read the full interview here (in italian)