[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/19/2018 12:16 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 8/18/2018 11:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 8/18/2018 1:13 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <mailman.0.1534605514.19671.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
>>> Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> DevOps needs to be defined because in most large enterprises I have 
>>>> been
>>>> in the last 10 years (including Federal Govt), this concept is just a
>>>> water cooler discussion topic.
>>>
>>> Indeed.  Sort of like big data.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
>>>
>>> Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really
>>> knows how
>>> to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone
>>> claims they
>>> are doing it.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---Dan Ariely
>> Big data is being used.
>>
>> Intelligence agencies, social media, retail, health care,
>> election campaigns, science, sports etc..
> 
> Don't have a clue what "big data" actually is.

I believe the traditional definition is the 4 V's:
* volume
* variety
* velocity
* veracity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data

I would probably phrase it as: "huge amount of different data
that individually is trivial but when combined provides a lot
of insight".

>                                      Now, if it's the social 
> media junk, I think calling it "data" is sort of a stretch ...

In many ways social media big data is some of the most sensitive
data (and at least by some measures therefore the most important data).

If we look at average Joe and what big data exists on him:

NSA has crunched all his phone connections and emails - and
just concluded that he has never been in contact with any
foreign spies or terrorists.

His favorite supermarket chain has crunched all his
shopping data for a decade or two - and know exactly what
he likes to eat and what laundry detergent he prefers.

Facebook has crunched all his FB page views, his FB likes, his
location when visiting facebook and all the pages using FB
that he has visited - and knows his friends, his hobbies,
his political opinions, his religious beliefs, his sexual preferences,
where he has physical been every day or hour the last decade - they
know everything.

http://wumo.com/img/wumo/2018/07/wumo5b438d7861e152.54362870.jpg

Arne