Big data must really be big to get its own White House-sanctioned research and development push.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will host a live webcast Thursday at 2 p.m. eastern time to outline how the government can "help big data" with its Big Data Research and Development Initiative.
Here are three things the feds could do right off the bat to promote better use of big data:
NSF has already put in a program: Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS).
Let’s see how its director will position this program.
