So data and analytics are dramatically changing our everyday lives.
Not just online,
not just in some distance future,
but in the physical world
and in very real and tangible ways.
I spent the last 11 years of my life as a geek at MIT
working in big data labs
that seek to use data science to study the physical world
and try to solve society's great problems.
The field of big data seeks to analyze massive pools of data
using computational tools to find patterns and trends.