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What is Big Data?
The discipline of data intensive computing has been growing in importance and in popularity recently. It has now become popular enough that the term “big data” is beginning to be used instead. The graph below is from Google Trends and … Continue reading
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Some Research Topics Related to Big Data Science and Cloud Computing
IEEE Cloud 2011 took place in Washington DC from July 4 to 6, 2011. The full name of the conference is The 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and it was co-located with three related conferences: 1) IEEE Services 2011 … Continue reading
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Small, Medium and Big Data
What is big data? From the point of view of the infrastructure required to do analytics, data comes in three sizes: Small data. Small data fits into the memory of a single machine. A good example of a small dataset … Continue reading
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What is Analytic Infrastructure and Why Should You Care?
I have been building analytic models for over 20 years. The names have changed a lot over the years: 20 years ago we built statistical models, 10 years ago we built data mining models, and today we build analytic models. … Continue reading
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