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NASA Scientist Tells CIOs to Set Realistic Expectations for Big Data

Amy Braverman, principal statistician at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talked with the WSJ’s Scott Thurm at the WSJ CIO Network event in San Diego, Feb. 3, 2015.
NASA Scientist Tells CIOs to Set Realistic Expectations for Big Data
Dr Amy Braverman on the right speaking to Wall Street Journal journalist Scott Thurm on the left; credit: Gary Fong/Genesis Photos

“Any time you compute with data you collected, you are calculating sample statistics,” said Dr. Amy Braverman, principal statistician at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “It’s important to acknowledge there is uncertainty in the results”

Click here for the full article in CIO Journal by Tom Loftus.