This is interesting news. It seems that all the big companies and universities are equipping themselves to tackle the data problem at a larger scale. I wonder i

This is interesting news. It seems that all the big companies and universities are equipping themselves to tackle the data problem at a larger scale. I wonder if this is because companies like Google/Facebook/Baidu found themselves ahead of academia when tackling problems at large scale. Or perhaps data warehouses are bursting at the seams with useful information waiting for qualified people to analyze them. You can read some about NYU's Data Science Program here: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/06/nyu-data-science-program-overview.html http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/06/nyu-data-science-program-ov...