Horizon: The Age of Big Data

00:00:08 In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is under way.

00:03:05 We weren't too happy about a computer telling us

00:05:13 13 million crimes recorded over 80 years.

00:07:47 So mathematical models can help you understand those types of things.

00:10:29 We use the Greek letter Myu

00:13:32 and look for criminal activity

00:15:50 And predicting crime from crime data is just one way

00:18:20 another 12 had French Pox, which is actually syphilis.

00:21:03 Yeah. Oh, OK, you weren't born with that!

00:22:57 Good, OK, well it looks like we've got our gene then, doesn't it?

00:25:30 rather like the body of knowledge

00:27:33 would have done these sorts of things.

00:29:48 You need specialised tools

00:32:11 then clearly, there's no way of profiting from that.

00:34:37 All told, it's growing by 2.5 billion gigabytes every day.

00:37:14 A mission to Mars is extremely complex

00:39:45 This is, um...

00:42:02 Mike Baker realised Bill's decision-making model

00:44:20 It felt like a big fish in my chest.

00:46:33 and I'm not talking the next couple of weeks

00:49:07 There's an enormous amount of information in there

00:51:24 astronomers can forecast the fate of Antares.

00:54:00 We need to be really far away from people

00:56:16 The new telescopes will receive