The American government is in a total of $ 200 million to invest in improving tools and techniques for data mining. The Big Data initiative is supported by six government agencies, including Darpa and the NSF.
The next step is to put the developed technology to accelerate breakthroughs in the field of science and engineering, enhance national security and promote e-learning.
Six departments and government organizations participate in the data mining initiative: the U.s. department of defense, Darpa, the National Science Foundation, the department of energy, the National Institutes of Health and the US Geological Survey.
Defence will be under more autonomous systems to develop, while Darpa with the Xdata program each year 25 million dollar will invest in the development of scalable algorithms for incomplete data sets. In the framework of the initiative, the National Institutes of Health, the results of the 1000 Genomes Project, a total of 200TB of data, put it online via Amazon Web Services.
The White House draws a comparison with similar initiatives in the past in the area of supercomputing and the creation of the internet. It wants to the importance of the $ 200 million additional investment in data mining research underline.
At the same time, the initiative by the skeptic is seen as an attempt to get the incumbent president to a second term to help, since Big Data in quite a few extra jobs.