I am grateful to finally see this in an article. The "big data" craze is being pushed in areas where it really doesn't make sense. We've been bit by the Big Dat

I am grateful to finally see this in an article. The "big data" craze is being pushed in areas where it really doesn't make sense. We've been bit by the Big Data bug where I'm at, but it's not coming from the statisticians. It's usually the executives proposing a shift to big data. People underestimate how much work it would be to shift an old server onto modern technologies and tell the statisticians to use MapReduce and NoSQL instead of SAS and SQL. If the Fortune 500 world has taken this long to catch on to R, imagine how long it'll take to completely change the DBMS and analysis software!