KWymore (1/9/2013)
Here is a question for everyone. Is big data simply large amounts of data or is it large amounts of intelligent data?....
I tend to think of big data as the former so that it really isn't about size as much as it is about "big picture" data. Granted, you could have a fairly small data set of intelligent data but it seems that the data collection processes of websites and companies is what started this whole big data conversation in the first place. And that data collection was mostly in order to gain as much information about users/consumers as possible in order to generate more revenue.
That's just my view.
I think it's the former, just lots of data. Is it intelligent? Sometimes we don't know, perhaps lots of times. I think it's the analysis and work that needs to be done on data sets to try and understand if there is information in there, or is it just a data point.