I believe that the data scene is nascent but growing — both in the open source world and inside of organizations. However, I am not convinced that the Strata at

I believe that the data scene is nascent but growing — both in the open source world and inside of organizations. However, I am not convinced that the Strata attendees are attacking the real problems that organizations who work with data already had... long before Hadoop was a gleam in the eye. Specifically, working with and sharing data (whether publicly or in a team) is stuck in the 1990's. Every time someone emails an Excel spreadsheet, a kitten dies! The obvious comparison is people emailing video files in the pre-YouTube era... if someone emailed you a 10mb dancing baby AVI, you'd think that their computer had been hacked. So why do we put up with this sad state of affairs? Where is the GitHub of datasets to rescue us and let a real data community take hold? That's why we built BuzzData: http://vimeo.com/35262021 http://vimeo.com/35262021 The next time you read an article about where the money in "Big Data" is going to come from, stop to question why people are looking for new problems when we haven't solved the ones we already have? http://blog.buzzdata.com/post/18555391280/data-even-if-its-not-big-it-should-be-clever http://blog.buzzdata.com/post/18555391280/data-even-if-its-n...