Arab Researchers Dive into “Big Data”

By Benjamin Plackett. The solution to a huge number of modern-day problems lies hidden in plain sight—obscured among tables of endless statistics and lines of binary zeros and ones. From the promise of better health care to the chance to wipe out traffic jams, there’s a mountain of unearthed opportunity just waiting to be mined. Fortunately, a rising number of researchers in the Arab world are taking on these huge datasets in search of answers. More...