Whats the Big Data

Would you like the Web to understand your inner GPS?

Then go to Hunch.com and start training the Web. After answering a few questions about your tastes, preferences, and opinions, you will get a set of recommendations from other Hunch members for movies, books, restaurants, recipes, music, vacation spots, shops, gadgets and other goodies.  Hunch will also predict how well you’ll like each recommendation. The more you interact with the site (e.g., answering more questions, rating Hunch’s predictions, adding a descriptive tag, making a recommendation), the more accurate and relevant its recommendations become. Continue reading →

James Taylor: “For all the focus on visualization and ad-hoc queries in Big Data systems, the end result is often going to be automation – a Decision Management system.  Continue reading →

“[Match.com’s vice-president of strategy Amarnath] Thombre says the technology that helps people fall in love isn’t so different from the kind that enables companies to whisk goods from warehouses to store shelves. ‘In both situations, you are trying to optimize data,’ he says with a shrug.”

Sometime ago I got an email from Netflix telling me that “recently you may have had trouble instantly watching TV episodes or movies due to technical issues.”As a matter of fact, I did not experience any “technical difficulties.” I simply started and stopped a number of stream-able movies. So I skipped Netflix’s offer of credit to my account but started thinking about the future of business in the era of Big Data. Continue reading →