According to Next Gov, the Opportunity Project, within the Census Bureau, is a providing researchers with a plethora of big data to help with their research projects.

Social media is not living up to its promise to revolutionize big data, reports Forbes.

According to the Times Leader, a company in Ohio was big data before big data was cool. The  Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus is a chemical research clearinghouse that contains everything there is to know about chemicals. With the information available to researchers world wide.