Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
The Big Data Debate: Correlation vs. Causation
In the first quarter of 2013, the stock of big data has experienced sudden declines followed by sporadic bouts of enthusiasm. The volatility—a new big data “V”—continues this month and Ted Cuzzillo summed up the recent negative sentiment in “Big … Continue reading
The Big Data Landscape Revisited
Bruce Reading, CEO of VoltDB, has an interesting and original take on the big data landscape. Last year, Dave Feinleib published the Big Data Landscape, “to organize this rapidly growing technology sector.” One prominent data scientist told me “it’s just a bunch of … Continue reading
Cool Data Scientists on Campus
Hal Varian: “Data availability is going to continue to grow. To make that data useful is a challenge. It’s generally going to require human beings to do it.” Source: Carl Bialik, “Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus,” The Wall … Continue reading
SAS CTO on Big Data and Big Compute
“One of my biggest challenges,” Keith Collins told me recently, “is helping SAS understand how to communicate to IT organizations. We present workloads which look odd and different. IT does not know how to have an SLA (Service Level Agreement) around them. … Continue reading
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Who’s Big in Big Data? (Infographic)
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Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, authors of the just-published Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, reacted sharply when I asked them if they are cheerleaders for big data, as one reviewer implied. ”We … Continue reading
Big Data Quotes: Disruptive Innovation?
“By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. For example, there is a drug that is marketed by Elan BioNeurology called … Continue reading
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The OED, Big Data, and Crowdsourcing
The term “big data” was included in the most recent quarterly online update of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). So now we have a most authoritative definition of what recently became big news: “data of a very large size, typically to the extent that its … Continue reading
Big Data Will Make IT the New Intel Inside
Tim O’Reilly famously declared in 2005: “Data is the next Intel Inside.” It well may be that big data—the organizational skill of using data as the key driver of performance—will make the IT function the new Intel Inside, the most … Continue reading
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The Big Data Interview: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO, EMC
If data sits on a desk somewhere and is not being used, it’s an opportunity wasted Sanjay Mirchandani believes IT has to take the lead in adding value to the business in the form of big data “addictive analytics.” Mirchandani … Continue reading
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