Sizing Up Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet - NYTimes.com

Extensive big data coverage in the NYT -- the article excerpted below is part of a big data special section; there's also a related NYT Sunday Magazine article, Data You Can Believe In

"The story is the same in one field after another, in science, politics, crime prevention, public health, sports and industries as varied as energy and advertising. All are being transformed by data-driven discovery and decision-making. The pioneering consumer Internet companies, like Google, Facebook and Amazon, were just the start, experts say. Today, data tools and techniques are used for tasks as varied as predicting neighborhood blocks where crimes are most likely to occur and injecting intelligence into hulking industrial machines, like electrical power generators."

Sizing Up Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet - NYTimes.com