Tag Archives: information

Numbers Behind the News: Development Insights from Big Data

IBM estimates that we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day.  They do not, however, estimate how much of this data is duplicated – all of the documents emailed between friends and coworkers that get stored on personal devices, …

Pittsburgh: The Entrepreneurial City (Part 1)

As we struggle with the lingering effects of the recession, it’s hard to see the silver lining in our economic forecast. Despite the statistical end to the recession, many economists don’t believe that we will recover to 2007 employment levels for another two to three years. The big question is: where will this growth come from?

The short answer? Entrepreneurs.