Comments on: What’s the big deal about “big data”? https://ict-pulse.com/2012/10/big-deal-big-data/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=big-deal-big-data&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=big-deal-big-data Discussing ICT, telecommunications and technology Issues from a Caribbean perspective Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Carlton Samuels https://ict-pulse.com/2012/10/big-deal-big-data/#comment-13563 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:19:49 +0000 http://www.ict-pulse.com/?p=5094#comment-13563 The big deal is the time has come for Caribbean policy development, tracking of outcomes etc. to be data-driven and informed by the analytics. We are data rich but woefully information poor.

The big deal is that the critical skills gap identified is an opportunity for our people, provided they are prepared. This will require a revolutionary change in the what we tech and the way we teach. This is the real of ‘big data’ in the Caribbean context.

Apropos, here’s something, in context: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/19/computer-science-lessons-facebook-update.

Others are making the change. Would that we choose this as one of the things we follow pattern on!

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