Reply to: Big data and Hadoop

[Freamon]

All you need about Big Data can be learn from this one man expert: https://twitter.com/BigDataBorat

[eek]

If you want an example of why Big Data is useful

How the Obama campaign guessed my income from my phone number – Telegraph Blogs

which is nowt. We can accurately estimate the lifetime value of a customer with 1 second of their first request to a page on the site (which is good but not fast enough for what we really want to do).

[Incognito]

I actually meant it as a joke.

pj? we have a PM.

It's okay, I got the joke. I wasn't involved in the data mining side of the project anyway, so no dick swinging involved.

[minestrone]

I'm not there anymore and I'm guessing about 80% of the forum will have one of their cards in their wallet. You cannae say that about PJ

I actually meant it as a joke.

pj? we have a PM.

[Incognito]

My client is bigger than yours, so there.

I'm not there anymore and I'm guessing about 80% of the forum will have one of their cards in their wallet. You cannae say that about PJ

[AtW]

My apologies: I really should have included SKA in my list

Apology accepted Captain Needa

[NickFitz]

Processing a trillion edge web graph daily, no hadoop required

My apologies: I really should have included SKA in my list

[minestrone]

My client is bigger than yours, so there.

[AtW]

Processing a trillion edge web graph daily, no hadoop required

[Incognito]

An example of 'big data'. A client I was working with handles over 100 million financial transactions a day. Transactions that indicate who the consumer is, their fiscal health, what they're purchasing and when they're purchasing it. It's a gold mine of data which they are working out how to monetise.

[minestrone]

I think Big Data took off quite some time ago: Yahoo!, Google, Bing are all examples.

Dear God.

NF's first post ascribing some merit to microsoft.

Fell off my seat there.

[NickFitz]

Millions of bobs are already all over Big Data, so as a skill it will have little value even if when the application for it takes off.

I think Big Data took off quite some time ago: Yahoo!, Google, Bing are all examples.

[Platypus]

Millions of bobs are already all over Big Data, so as a skill it will have little value even if when the application for it takes off.

Millions of Bobs != Skill

[ChimpMaster]

Millions of bobs are already all over Big Data, so as a skill it will have little value even if when the application for it takes off.

[Platypus]

1.2 TB is "big data" ????

FWIW, MyClient thinks that Big Data is going to be a massive market and have invested $16BN in this area (so they claim).