The only definition of big data I've thought was remotely insightful is "too large to process with one machine." Note (as the example in the Wired article indi

The only definition of big data I've thought was remotely insightful is "too large to process with one machine." Note (as the example in the Wired article indicates) that the converse isn't true: just because you are using multiple machines to process data doesn't mean it's big.