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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/19/2018 11:04 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 8/19/2018 3:09 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
>>> Sent: August 19, 2018 2:30 PM
>>> 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.
>>
>> <https://www.lifewire.com/what-exactly-is-big-data-4051020>
>> " 50% to 80% of big data work is converting and cleaning the 
>> information so that is searchable and sortable. Only a few thousand 
>> experts on our planet fully know how to do this data cleanup."
>>
>> Like the large data warehouses of the past,  garbage in, garbage out. 
>> If the data is not cleaned up, then it will produce crappy and/or 
>> inaccurate results.
> 
> And if it's improperly "cleaned up" ?????
> 
> Then you got cleaned up garbage ....
> 
> When you're searching the haystack for a diamond, there is no guarantee 
> there is a diamond in the haystack, and, you got lots of useless hay.
> 
> Not saying there isn't useful data at times, but, how does one really 
> know if it's useful?

In real life.

Typical if the output from the big data analysis result in revenue
going up or cost going down.

Arne