Sherrilynne Starkie

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

You can see the forest and the trees in big data, according to Nora Young , the Canadian author and the host of CBC Radio One’s Spark, in her opening keynote at last week’s Fireworks Factory conference held on Galiano Island, British Columbia. Her topic was “Big data as a new information ecosystem.”. And it can be used for good.

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Top Five: Google is shuttering G+

Sherrilynne Starkie

After a successful pilot program, Google is opening applications for its GNI Cloud Credit Program to give qualifying news publishers with fewer than 1,000 employees the opportunity to apply for up to $100,000 each in Google Cloud Platform credits, as well up to $50,000 in implementation support. — SS. — SS.

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