Abdullah Shahid, graduate student grant recipient for the Institute for Social Sciences (ISS) collaborative project on Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, discusses applications of big data at the project's capstone event March 11, 2016. The project aimed to understand how novel ideas are created, developed, valued, and diffused, leading to ground-breaking changes in cultural, social, and economic interaction.
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