How Big Data Became So Big 105
theodp writes "The NYT's Steve Lohr reports that his has been the crossover year for Big Data — as a concept, term and marketing tool. Big Data has sprung from the confines of technology circles into the mainstream, even becoming grist for Dilbert satire ('Big Data lives in The Cloud. It knows what we do.'). At first, Jim Davis, CMO at analytics software vendor SAS, viewed Big Data as part of another cycle of industry phrasemaking. 'I scoffed at it initially,' Davis recalls, noting that SAS's big corporate customers had been mining huge amounts of data for decades. But as the vague-but-catchy term for applying tools to vast troves of data beyond that captured in standard databases gained world-wide buzz and competitors like IBM pitched solutions for Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave, 'we had to hop on the bandwagon,' Davis said (SAS now has a VP of Big Data). Hey, never underestimate the power of a meme!"
Big Data (Score:5, Funny)
How do you think Garfield go so fat?
A New Wank Word? (Score:5, Funny)
Big 1s & 0s. (Score:5, Funny)
One byte at a time. :)
Bletch (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't there some rarely visited slashdot offshoot for this kinda stuff? A place with nicer graphics where suits could happily spew buzzwords at each other and make comments like "Great post , very informative!".
Why is this here :(
Re:Bletch (Score:5, Funny)
Great post , very informative!
Same way anything gets big (Score:5, Funny)
More and more crap accumulated until, low and behold, you had a glacier, a mountain, an ocean full of water, or a big database full of pictures of people you knew in highschool drunk off their asses, or a huge run-on sentance full of listed items and disjointed thoughts separated by commas.
Re:Big 1s & 0s. (Score:5, Funny)
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
Re:How big is 'big data'? (Score:2, Funny)
And how are we measuring the size? What sizes are measured for typical 'big data'?
Are we talking about detailed information, or inefficient data formats?
Motions with hands.