Big Data

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Danny Wallace, mathematician Hannah Fry and science writer Timandra Harkness. They'll be going big on Big Data, and asking just how big is it? They'll be looking at where Big Data comes from, should we be worried about it, and what mysteries are hidden within the seemingly endless amounts of information that is collected about us as we go about our daily lives.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:03.6	Hello, I'm Robin Ins. And I'm Brian Cox.
0:05.8	Today's show is all about big data
0:07.8	and how the information you unwittingly offer up
0:10.4	every minute of your life is being used
0:12.1	to shape the environment around you
0:13.9	and even to decide what you need.
0:15.8	You'll know this if you've ever done internet shopping,
0:17.7	that suddenly that album is like,
0:19.2	I looked up Brian Cox once, once,
0:22.6	and ever since then, I'm inundated with Advertisement
0:24.8	for how to be a one-hit wonder.
0:26.8	LAUGHTER
0:27.7	1990s club classics volume 17
0:31.0	and Astronomers Fingerwax,
0:33.8	which I don't even really know what that is.
0:35.6	It just says, with Astronomers Fingerwax,
0:37.7	you can point to anywhere in the universe
0:39.5	with confidence may not work at zenith.
0:41.9	LAUGHTER
0:43.1	You're right, you said that zenith being
0:44.8	will be quite a low laugh.
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