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It\u2019s all in the numbers. The trick is, finding what you\u2019re looking for. But that\u2019s the name of the game with big data. We have a giga-gigabyte of information, and combing through it will lead to new cures for disease, new discoveries about the cosmos, or clues to our social and economic behavior.\nBut is big data Big Brother? You leave a little bit of yourself behind with each mouse click. Discover how surveillance and privacy issues bubble out of the mix, as the terabytes keep flowing in.\nPlus one man\u2019s quest to know himself through the numbers as he records everything \u2013 and we do mean everything \u2013 about his body.\nGuests:\n\u2022\xa0\xa0Atul Butte \u2013 Associate professor, division chief, systems medicine, Stanford University\n\u2022\xa0\xa0Larry Smarr \u2013 Professor of computer science, University of California, San Diego, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, (Calit2)\n\u2022\xa0\xa0Karen Nelson \u2013 Microbiologist, director of the Rockville Campus of the J. Craig Venter Institute\n\u2022\xa0\xa0Gerry Harp \u2013 Physicist, and Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute\n\u2022\xa0\xa0Deirdre Mulligan \u2013 Assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information and faculty director of the Berkeley Center of Law and Technology\n\u2022\xa0\xa0Ken Goldberg \u2013 Professor of engineering, information and art at the University of California, Berkeley\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices