At a speech at the High Performance Computing and Big Data Conference Mr Willetts outlined what steps are being taken to strengthen the UK's competitive advantage in Big Data. (politics.co.uk)
To get a sense of the power of all these efforts, check out the talk I participated in at the International Open Data Conference (and hey, PDFs shouldn't be considered «open data»!). (medium.com)
Dave Moyer, speaking at the 2014 National Center for Education Statistics data conference on July 31, 2014, found that even at Hawaiian public schools where 95 percent of the students show up every day, chronic absenteeism can be a gigantic problem where as many as one in four kids — 25 percent — are missing 15 or more school days a year. (educationbythenumbers.org)