Welcome to BigData Hipster

Welcome to my new blog on Big Data and my reflections on how it is changing the face of research in the biological sciences and personalised health therapies. For my first post I have chosen not a research topic but a poem by WB Yeats that makes one reflect upon the value of intellectual pursuit. I have partly chosen Yeats because he was, like I am, a Savilian.

The Choice

The intellect of man is forced to choose

Perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. When all that story’s finished, what’s the news? In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day’s vanity, the night’s remorse.

W.B. Yeats

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