What is the Big Deal about the BIG Score?

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

The Big Deal About Big Data in Upstream Oil and Gas

The oil and gas industry is a data-driven business. The industry depends on information technology (IT) to increase the speed of finding oil, enhance oil production, and reduce health, safety, and environment risks that come with equipment failure or operator error. Processing large volumes of data for reservoir modeling or simulation is not new. What has changed is the availability of new tech...

What is so bad about a big baby?

Pick's Theorem - What's the Big Deal?

Of course, finding the infimum is computationally harder than answering the question of whether the infimum is less than or equal to some fixed value, but mathematically the problems are equivalent. By a standard compactness argument (what a complex analyst would call a normal family argument), the infimum in (IP) will be attained. By rescaling, we can assume this infimum is 1, and then the Pic...

What is beyond the big five? Plenty!

In a recent analysis of personality data, Saucier and Goldberg (1998) sought to answer the question, What is beyond the Big Five? Those authors evaluated numerous clusters of English person-descriptive adjectives that have been suspected of referring to non-Big Five dimensions of personality. Their results led them to conclude that most, if not all, traits of personality can be adequately subsu...