Question 2: Short Article Review

people have been exposed to how Big Data can be used to analyze and solve certain economic and social problems. For this question, you will select one article of interest to you that uses Big Data to analyze a specific economic and social problem and write short summary. Specifically, you should describe how the article uses the big data and summarize the conclusions of the article. Examples of applications could include one of the following (but you should feel free to choose any article including those mentioned on the course outline):

Big Data and health (e.g. to predict flu epidemic)

Big Data and race

Big Data and business (e.g predict sales, or just a description of how one company such as Walmart, MasterCard, Telus, etc. uses big data)

Big Data and the movies (e.g. the Netflix Challenge)

Big Data and crime Big Data and tourism

Big Data and climate change

Big Data and elections etc.

Please be sure to provide an appropriate reference to the article and you should keep the article in case we request to see them. The following Google Scholar link provides a list of articles which might be of potential interest

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=big+data&btnG= (but you should feel free to choose any article from anywhere) Due