Past The Hype: A Better Way To Think About Big Data
summary
Claims Big Data is five concrete technologies not a buzzword and shows working examples: language data powers Marriott and litigation NLP insights, media data enables face and image recognition, sensor data yields a Parkinson’s phone test done in three minutes and locomotives that stream ~1 GB/hour for predictive maintenance, and pattern matching scales Amazon recommendations from thousands to ~250 million users and ~200 million items; elevator logs and a 45 second replenishment system prove repurposing operational data actually reduces churn.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:10Breakthrough Moment
- 5:14Elevator Logs
- 7:14Big Data Types
- 10:02Big Data and Numbers
- 11:47Language Data
- 16:00Examples
- 16:32A Drive Through
- 20:57Google Maps
- 21:27Pattern Matching
- 23:12Language Media Data
- 23:54Retail Sensor Data
- 25:30Sports Metrics
- 26:23Sensor Data
- 30:27Big Data Definition
- 32:29Keys To Understanding Big Data
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