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OT but I've never liked the term 'big data' precisely because it's so ill-defined. Most people I speak with on this think they have 'big data'. Anything they
by mgkimsal 12y ago
OT but I've never liked the term 'big data' precisely because it's so ill-defined. Most people I speak with on this think they have 'big data'. Anything they can't comprehend is "big data". Anything that makes their Excel 97 crash is "big data". It's pervasive a term enough that people have heard it, and use it wrongly.
Colleague of mine is at a company that's advertising for someone with "big data" experience. Collectively, for more than 10 years in business, they have maybe 100g of data. They just do not know how to organize the data sanely in a relational database, and actively refuse to consider normal data structures.
- sixdimensional 12y agoThere is a definition for "very large database" (VLDB) on Wikipedia- the precursor to the term "big data".. although it is somewhat outdated.