Chinese built divide, conquer algorithm offers a promising route for big data analysis We live in the era of big data. The huge volume of information we generate daily has major applications in various fields of science and technology, economy, and management. For example, more and more companies now collect, store and analyze large-scale data sets from multiple sources to gain business insights or measure risk. However, as Prof. Yong Zhou, one of the authors of a new study notes: “Typically, these large or massive data sets cannot be processed with independent computers, which poses new challenges for traditional data...