A quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe—”Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men”—appears at the beginning of the 2013 book, “Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking,” by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett.
There is certainly nothing small about the world of data that surrounds us in our professional and personal lives. The question is, are the fundamental principles of information governance at odds with—or can they instead be reconciled with—the desire of data scientists to play with massive and ever-increasing amounts of data?
