Crowdsourcing app will measure the world for a week through smartphones

Crowdsourcing app will “measure the world” for a week through smartphones
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com

If you’ve ever had trou­ble explain­ing the con­cept of “big data” to some­one—or had trou­ble wrap­ping your brain around the buzz­word your­self—Rick Smolan wants to help. But how do you demon­strate big data? It’s the some­what abstract,…

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