Butterflies and Hurricanes: Big-Data Storms Drive Evidence-Based Success

There is an old saying in idiomatic English, that ‘climate is what you expect, weather is what you get’. A salutary reminder, that even the best of plans and expectations are meaningless, in the face of empirical evidence – and that that evidence, in any given instance, might be very different to the average which the model predicts. Knowing what to expect from the weather has been of vital interest to the human species since prehistory, because our wellbeing is so intimately tied to the ability to farm and hunt, as well as the ability to shelter appropriately from the…...