[Beowulf] Slide on big data

[Prentice Bisbal]

On 02/19/2014 09:14 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
> Right now Big Data is more like other fuzzy marketing
> words i.e. Cloud, Grid, etc.
>
> And, Big is a relative term. There are several
> aspects of "Big Data" that I have noticed:
> (Often summarized by the three V's of Big Data
> Volume, Variety and Velocity)
>
> - often an un-structured collection of data not
>    easily processed using relational tools
> - often unused organization data collected over time
>    or a recent upswing in transaction-type data from the web
>    or other sources, sensors, simulations, experiemnets
> - strains existing infrastructure (which varies by organization)
> - rapid analysis (real-time ) of data is desired
> - Big in size, but not that big i.e.
>
> Two analytics clusters at Yahoo and Microsoft,
> median job input sizes are under 14GB and 90%
> of jobs on a Facebook cluster have input sizes
> under 100 GB. (“Nobody ever got fired for using
> Hadoop on a cluster,” HotCDP2012)
>
> "Big Data's sweet spot starts at 110GB and the discovery
> that the most common amount of data the average company has under
> management is between 10 to 30TB"
> (http://www.sisense.com/blog/bruno/2013/01/13/big-data-surprises)
>
>
> And, yes I have been swimming in the "Big Data" pool recently.

Have you been drinking Kool-Aid made with water from that pool? ;)
>
>
> --
> Doug
>
>> Pardon me, what exactly IS Big Data :)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Prentice Bisbal <
>> prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> So I stumbled upon this on reddit yesterday. It would be funny if it
>>> wasn't so true:
>>>
>>> http://i.imgur.com/n4BvQMi.jpg
>>>
>>> For those of you who don't want to click the link, the slide says the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> Big Data: What is it?
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Prentice
>>>
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