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(Disclaimer: I'm the "accidental scientist" profiled in this article.) Yes I've noticed this as well. People are often asking me for my opinion about Big Data,
by jph00 15y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm the "accidental scientist" profiled in this article.)
Yes I've noticed this as well. People are often asking me for my opinion about Big Data, treating it as a synonym for Data Science. Since the journalist at Wired had recently written a couple of articles about Hadoop, I took this opportunity to explain to him how data size and data value are not necessarily directly related. I think he did a great job in the piece of getting this point across.
- lurker17 15y agoI think you'll find that Hadoop is often used in preparing the data into bite-size chunks for use in Kaggle contests. Also, sometimes the contest winners do win by fetching more data related data than Kaggle provides. This happened in the Wikipedia participating-prediction contest, for example.
- lurker17 15y agoThanks for Fastmail!