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Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/1628/Jimmy_Lin_DATA_650.large.jpg?1268772600&1268772597 "Jimmy Lin of the University of Maryland")
Jimmy Lin is an associate professor at the University of Maryland.
Credit: Steve Ruark / The New York Times
It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough. But that is exactly the complaint from some of the largest technology companies and the federal government.
At the heart of this criticism is data. Researchers and workers in fields as diverse as bio-technology, astronomy and computer science will soon find themselves overwhelmed with information. Better telescopes and genome sequencers are as much to blame for this data glut as are fas...
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