Big data and Hadoop

[SimonMac]

Why do people deride "buzzwords", as contractors isn't a key part of income generation potential helping companies jump on the latest band wagon.

[eek]

Big data and Hadoop

Given the 1.2tb of data I currently have online, the 15gb we add daily , the sub second reporting we offer and the curated method we are applying to reporting I think i know a little bit about what I'm talking about.

The issue with all data systems is garbage in leads to garbage out. By managing what we collect we don't have that issue so we don't need looney mathematically geniuses.

Oh and I have far more customers lined up than I can manage. So I'm upping the prices continually to try and scare some away. It's not working but it's looking stupidly, scarily profitable

[minestrone]

Why do people deride "buzzwords", as contractors isn't a key part of income generation potential helping companies jump on the latest band wagon.

Because they end up in the hands of complete morons who band them about incorrectly.

[sasguru]

Why do people deride "buzzwords", as contractors isn't a key part of income generation potential helping companies jump on the latest band wagon.

"Big data" isn't really a buzzword - only insofar as it refers to the vast and growing amounts of data being generated by everything and everyone.
But personally I wouldn't get into the changeable technolgies for managing the scale and volume of this data.
Far better to train in stats, there's in inbuilt barrier to entry, as most people can't do maths.

[sasguru]

Given the 1.2tb of data I currently have online, the 15gb we add daily , the sub second reporting we offer and the curated method we are applying to reporting I think i know a little bit about what I'm talking about.

The issue with all data systems is garbage in leads to garbage out. By managing what we collect we don't have that issue so we don't need looney mathematically geniuses.

So you just generate bog standard reports: no discriminant or factor analyses, multivariate analysis, various form of regressions, other modelling etc etc etc.?
You don't really know what you are talking about in that case - you're not using your data to its maximum advantage.

[Mich the Tester]

no discriminant or factor analyses, multivariate analysis, various form of regressions, other modelling etc etc etc.

I don't think pron sites really need that level of sophistication.

[eek]

Big data and Hadoop

So you just generate bog standard reports: no discriminant or factor analyses, multivariate analysis, various form of regressions, other modelling etc etc etc.?
You don't really know what you are talking about in that case - you're not using your data to its maximum advantage.

Are you a customer? I don't remember seeing any burnt out retirees who couldn't hack it being in the customer list.

And unless you are a customer how can you know what we actually offer?

[sasguru]

Are you a customer? I don't remember seeing any burnt out retirees who couldn't hack it being in the customer list.

And unless you are a customer how can you know what we actually offer?

Fine. I'll assume you're doing sophisticated stats analyses/data mining then.

[eek]

Fine. I'll assume you're doing sophisticated stats analyses/data mining then.

Great.

And thanks for confirming that you are a burnt out retirees who couldn't hack it. At least it confirms everyone's perception of you.

[sasguru]

Great.

And thanks for confirming that you are a burnt out retirees who couldn't hack it. At least it confirms everyone's perception of you.

Whatever.
I'm currently negotiating direct a nice little contract working 3 days a week (2 from home) precisely in this area.