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How Edmund Halley used big data in 1686
A look at how Edmund Halley pioneered the use of "big data" in 1686 by analyzing vast amounts of sailing logs and weather ...
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Halley on the Age of the Ocean
EDMUND HALLEY was a very great man. He was not only the first to predict correctly the return of a comet, that which is now known by his name, but also—before Newton had announced his results to ...