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Why We Need To Kill “Big Data”

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/05/why-we-need-to-kill-big-data/

by harrydoukas • 14 years ago

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kordless• 14 years ago

How about Big Time Cloud Data™?

fiatmoney• 14 years ago

Newsflash: a two-word category descriptor isn't good at conveying nuance. It does pretty effectively convey the idea, though, that in whatever specific area of application, storing and processing data is a core technical challenge.

If you need a shorthand "way to describe startups that are dealing with large quantities of data", as a non-nuanced category, "big data" does a pretty great job.

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