I like this distinction. I walked into a world of hurt when I was brought on to look at application user data after years of working with international trade da

I like this distinction. I walked into a world of hurt when I was brought on to look at application user data after years of working with international trade data and national statistics. Even when it comes to formulating a hypothesis and subsequent experiment, the approach is entirely different. I will say that the article's distinction between small and big data is also important, but that just comes down to processing power. I think the distinction you make is far more important and knowing whether you need coarse or fine data can help keep you out of the issues that are introduced moving from small to big data.