After several years in the field of high performance computing and especially with a well-suited tangent of adult and tertiary education in that field, I am getting some subtle hints that I am just on verge of making a significant contribution to this field.
That must be a very nice feeling indeed. Your presentation was quite interesting to read. My university recently established a Qualitative Data Repository, which they hope will encourage scientists to share their data sets. Obviously a big part of this is how to analyze, process, massage, look at, and otherwise Do Stuff With the data. Since it's qualitative data, none of the data sets will probably be large enough to qualify as "Big Data," but then again one never knows. (Myself, in terms of big data, I hope to see more use of visual tools, as I think that's the only reasonable way that humans will be able to make sense of it. But that's a UI thing, I guess.) Point 3 interested me in particular because one of the areas my institution collects in is adult and continuing education (how do adults learn, how do they differ from other types of learners, etc.). We have nearly 100 collections, including Malcolm Knowles' papers.
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Date: 2014-06-14 01:21 pm (UTC)That must be a very nice feeling indeed. Your presentation was quite interesting to read. My university recently established a Qualitative Data Repository, which they hope will encourage scientists to share their data sets. Obviously a big part of this is how to analyze, process, massage, look at, and otherwise Do Stuff With the data. Since it's qualitative data, none of the data sets will probably be large enough to qualify as "Big Data," but then again one never knows. (Myself, in terms of big data, I hope to see more use of visual tools, as I think that's the only reasonable way that humans will be able to make sense of it. But that's a UI thing, I guess.) Point 3 interested me in particular because one of the areas my institution collects in is adult and continuing education (how do adults learn, how do they differ from other types of learners, etc.). We have nearly 100 collections, including Malcolm Knowles' papers.
By the way, harking back to your cheesequest post, I saw this article today and thought of you :)