This is a good post, but it's somewhat myopically focused on typical "business" data. The most interesting applications for "big data" are all (IMO) in the sci

This is a good post, but it's somewhat myopically focused on typical "business" data. The most interesting applications for "big data" are all (IMO) in the scientific computing space. Yeah, your e-commerce business probably won't ever need "big data" but load up a couple genomics research sets and you sure will.