A startup in Indianapolis Indiana called Uflavor has a process to create an infinite number of soda flavors from a crowd-sourced process. Inc Magazine just named them one of the three most innovative sites around social media. This presents an interesting problem in data analysis: how to get insights or trends from the large volume of data. The plan is …
Monthly Archives: March 2012
What is Big Data?
What exactly is “big data”? Two interesting posts on the definition. First Andrew Brust on ZDNet offers a common definition: Big Data is about the technologies and practice of handling data sets so large that conventional database management systems cannot handle them efficiently, and sometimes cannot handle them at all. ?He goes on to note that the term …
Soda Machines & Big Data
Consider the standard soda machine. Typically it will have 5 types of soda. (eg cola, diet cola, caffeine free cola, diet caffeine free cola, flavored soda (cherry eg). In most cases, it’s pretty simple: each week it will be loaded with soda, emptied of coins, and put back into operation. A savvy vending machine operator would check …
How Big Data will impact your life…
Why is Big Data important? What is it? A good way to think about Big Data is through an example of a “smart device”, the thermostat. With the standard analog thermostat, you turn the dial to increase or decrease temperature and there is a sensor which turns on or off the heating and cooling system. There’s minimal data …
Big Data BBQ: Incredients, Tools, Techniques, Recipes & Meals
Big Data BBQ will focus on the emergence of big data — large volumes of data, ways to analyze and find meaning in them, and methods of visualizing and reporting on data to make core business decisions. While it’s not a technical blog, at times it will look at the technical infrastructure if it impacts combining data and …