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#big-data
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Big Data and the bureaucratization of life
As technology and Big Data advance, they enable the near-total bureaucratization of life—despite the fact that the promise of technology was exactly the opposite, to liberate life from bureaucracy. This dovetails with the trend in job automation: the more bureaucratic a job…
What Is Big Data? An Introduction To The Big Data Landscape.
What big data is
Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The data is too big, moves too fast, or doesn't fit the strictures of your database architectures. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it.The hot IT…
Two uses of big data
The value of big data to an organization falls into two categories: analytical use, and enabling new products. Big data analytics can reveal insights hidden previously by data too costly to process, such as peer influence among customers, revealed by analyzing shoppers'…
When you can, keep everything
A common use of big data processing is to take unstructured data and extract ordered meaning, for consumption either by humans or as a structured input to an application. One such example is entity resolution, the process of determining exactly what a name refers to. Is this…