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Big data means so many things to so many different people, I can't decipher what positive statements are being made here.
by paulgb 14y ago
Big data means so many things to so many different people, I can't decipher what positive statements are being made here.
- ihsw 14y agoIt can easily be construed as broad-sweeping and baseless collection of user data, specifically in the hopes of somehow monetizing it. It is baseless because it is passive and without direction. I'm not bashing it, as a matter of fact it excites me as a programmer.
- paulgb 14y agoThanks, the article makes more sense when I read it with that definition of big data.
- 7952 14y agoI think these terms spring into existence because a concept is understandable in the mainstream but still requires specialist expertise to accomplish. If excel could handle 50GB datasets it wouldn't be called big data, just excel.