Data science and is often mentioned in the same breath as big data.  But how big is big data?  And who has the biggest big data?  CERN?  Youtube?  

... Something (or someone) else?

Relevant link: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002195

Inside a Data Analysis: Fraud Hunting at Enron

Linear Digressions is a podcast about machine learning and data science.  Machine learning is being used to solve a ton of interesting problems, and to accomplish goals that were out of reach even a few short years ago.