blind men and the elephant. Poem by John Godfrey Saxe (Cartoon originally copyrighted by the authors; G. Renee Guzlas, artists http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v62/n5/fig_tab/4493262f1.html
high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?” Source: Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her- father-did/
handle data fast enough to make a difference • Big data happens when the data you have to process is bigger than what you can process in the given time with current technologies • Big data analytics is when sample = N
… Mr. Smith 100 22 iPhone 5s,White USA John Doe 87 42 Samsung Galaxy S5,Gold France Lady In Red 105 21 Samsung Note 3, White UK … Uluru, Australia by Stuart Edwards (cc) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru#mediaviewer/File:Uluru_Panorama.jpg
data you have to process is bigger than what you can process in the given time with current technologies • Big data analytics is when sample = N • Big data is when we can handle data fast enough to make a difference
data business – they just didn’t know it • Big data is not a panacea • Hadoop is shaping up as the big data OS – Though there are alternatives arriving from the cloud arena (mesos, kubernetes)