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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/19/2018 9:34 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 12:15:53 AM UTC-4, 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:
>>>> 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.  Now, if it's the social
>> media junk, I think calling it "data" is sort of a stretch ...
> 
> Many in our industry don't know what it means but it is something that started in 2003 when Google published an ACM paper describing GFS (the Google File System) which later morphed into Hadoop and other stuff. Big Data really exploded in 2007 but, according to some, the financial meltdown of 2007-2008 obscured this paradigm shift.
> 
> Anyway, here is my point-form explanation for whatever its worth
> 
> http://neilrieck.net/docs/technological_change.html#epiphany11

There are a couple of perspectives:

data science perspective - what data are there and what business
value an they provide

IT perspective - how the fuck do we store and search all that data

Due to our background we may find the second more interesting.

But it is actually the first that is most important - if there
is money to be made crunching PB of data, then the IT guys will
find a technical way to crunch PB of data.

Arne