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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostThat's not big data. That's analysing structured data in a DW.
Big data is analysing something like every tweet in realtime and obtaining understanding of how the World sees your products.
BTW there's 9100 tweets per second to analyse, 24/7/365. Try that in your SQL server DB.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostThat's not big data. That's analysing structured data in a DW.
Big data is analysing something like every tweet in realtime and obtaining understanding of how the World sees your products.
BTW there's 9100 tweets per second to analyse, 24/7/365. Try that in your SQL server DB.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostYes, that's Big Data. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with databases, it's map reduce, distributed computing, predictive analytics, data science. It's not a SQL Server DB.Comment
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We use SAP Hana for data collection. We're tracking usage against 5000 cloud instances, who's inserted, deleted records etc, growth of application usage.
This is all then tied back using Licensing decoder I designed to make sense of it to the business. Now using for product recommendations.
But it's all business SME plus data scientists. We're hampered by the fact that IT decided to chuck the data into SAP Hana in a more unstructured manner as they reckoned it was so quick that it would handle unstructured data for analysis.
Guess what they were wrong and now having to build out a proper set of star schemas with additional
Business input.
Most companies don't need it but call it out as Big data.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Contract I have now taken is a Big Data project. There are going to be some quite useful use cases at clientco, but initially they're buying the kit thinking it will do every form of operational, management & analytical reporting they want (including financial) just by chucking the data in.
I am still skeptical, but it's a greenfield site so will have a certain free hand. I shall report back on any real use cases over classic BI.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostContract I have now taken is a Big Data project. There are going to be some quite useful use cases at clientco, but initially they're buying the kit thinking it will do every form of operational, management & analytical reporting they want (including financial) just by chucking the data in.
I am still skeptical, but it's a greenfield site so will have a certain free hand. I shall report back on any real use cases over classic BI.Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostContract I have now taken is a Big Data project. There are going to be some quite useful use cases at clientco, but initially they're buying the kit thinking it will do every form of operational, management & analytical reporting they want (including financial) just by chucking the data in.
I am still skeptical, but it's a greenfield site so will have a certain free hand. I shall report back on any real use cases over classic BI.Comment
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Been on a Big Data project for the last year, just think of it as a huge bucket. Great at having lots of data in one place that you can run analysis against, because its distributed compute, parallelism jobs are the way to go.
Good use case is machine logs, chuck them all in there, and analyise later.Politicians are wonderfull people, as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, like working for a living!Comment
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