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What is Big Data?
Matthew Makai
Excella Consulting
Business Intelligence COE
What is big data?
Main concepts
Perils
Case studies
Definition
?
Definition shifts over time
1. Moore's Law
2. Data creation
3. Storage capacity
Big varies over time
Example
1980 Seagate ST-506 (5 MB - 1 MP3)
2012 Seagate (4 TB - 800,000 MP3s)
Concepts
NoSQL
MapReduce
Data visualization
(Over?) Promises
Data-driven decisions
Garbage in,
Garbage out
Case studies
Jeff Gallimore
Craig Schneider
References