This is a short post - I couldn't hold it back any longer. Anyone you come across today - from the office elevator (I guess the old water-cooler analogy is dead) to the weekend party - that is remotely connected to technology or business, talks "big-data". I heard someone recently say 'yeah, we are into big-data analytics too', and these guys were running a small IT staffing shop. I won't bore you with the text book definitions or tell you in detail what it is (though personally I like the quick snippet that comes up in Google search, source Wikipedia). What I want to tell you is this ... u se that jargon only if you want to look like a complete dork if anyone remotely aware of the field is around. Data & analytics has been around forever. Internet and more recently social graphs are producing vast amounts of data (a lot of which is useless, IMO), which lead to the term "big-data" - and it simply refers to data of size & model that tra
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