A press release from Union Pacific Railroad; October 18, 2018
The goal: Take the data collected across more than 32,000 miles of track, plug it into a computer, and accurately predict which track section will break next. They call it predictive analytics, and it’s the science of harvesting vast amounts of data about the past and using it to predict the future.
Much like everything else on the railroad, the amount of data collected every day is enormous. “Big data” is an understatement.
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