Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data

2014-02-19 Thread Ellis H. Wilson III
This one had me rolling a little while back: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-07-29/ Best, ellis -- Ph.D. Candidate Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University www.ellisv3.com ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf

Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data

2014-02-19 Thread G . M . Sigut
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:00:56 -0500 From: Kevin Van Workum To: Nathan Pimental Cc: "beowulf@beowulf.org" Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data ... On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Nathan Pimental wrote: Pardon me, what exactly IS Big Data d888d888 .db. .db. d888

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Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data

2014-02-19 Thread Douglas Eadline
> > 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

Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data

2014-02-19 Thread Prentice Bisbal
IMHO, Big Data is nothing more than a marketing term. On 02/18/2014 03:45 PM, Nathan Pimental wrote: Pardon me, what exactly IS Big Data :) On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Prentice Bisbal mailto:prentice.bis...@rutgers.edu>> wrote: So I stumbled upon this on reddit yesterday. It would

Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data

2014-02-19 Thread 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

Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin Van Workum
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Nathan Pimental wrote: > Pardon me, what exactly IS Big Data :) > d888d888 .db. .db. d888d888 .db. d888 .db. d888d888 d d d88P Y88b d88P Y88b d d d88P Y88b d d88P Y88b d d 888

Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data

2014-02-19 Thread Tim Cutts
An aspect of big data that I think is a better description is not what the data is, or how large it is, or how it’s structured, but how you ask questions of it and the rationale for which it was gathered. In the traditional scientific model, you formulate a hypothesis, you design an experiment

Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data

2014-02-19 Thread Douglas Eadline
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 no

Re: [Beowulf] Slide on big data

2014-02-19 Thread Gavin W. Burris
On Tue 02/18/14 03:45PM -0500, Nathan Pimental wrote: > Pardon me, what exactly IS Big Data :) Big data is unstructured data (filesystem) as opposed to structured data (database). So, yes, everyone is doing it. -- Gavin W. Burris Senior IT Project Leader Research Computing Wharton Computing Uni