I had the privilege to join a panel in 2014 that explored big data opportunities and challenges. Together, coordinated by Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou, we captured our thoughts into a paper published in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Volume 9, Number 4).
It is an honour to learn that we have received a 2017 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award. The paper is:
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nitesh V. Chawla, Yaochu Jin, Graham J. Williams. “Big data opportunities and challenges: Discussions from data analytics perspectives”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 9, no. 4, 2014 November, pp.62-74.
The paper includes a discussion of turning ensemble concepts into the extreme, reflecting on the need for the pendulum to swing back toward protecting privacy, and the resulting focus on massively ensembled models, each “model” modelling an individual across extensive populations. Stay tuned for a future blog post that will explore this concept further and see the Research Gate project.