Having a marketplace such asDataSifthas already encouraged other social-media services toopentheirdata vaults, saysNickHalstead, the founderof DataSift.
Having a marketplace such as DataSift has already encouraged other social-media services to open their data vaults, says NickHalstead, the founder of DataSift.
"The main problem with correlation is that if you look at enough data you can find correlations in almost anything, " said NickHalstead, the co-founder of DataSift, a U.K. startup that specializes in big data.
Another of the Le Web speakers will be NickHalstead, the founder of Datasift, a platform that enables companies to interpret massive amounts of data through social media networks like Twitter and Facebook.