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On 8/30/14 2:42 PM, David Price wrote:
On 30 Aug 2014, at 18:35, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
When one accesses Big
Data for some purpose, what has one really
accessed?
Data distorted by qualification using a
meaningless buzz-phrase
According the ISO task force [1] trying to make sense of
big data a draft definition is:
Big Data: a data set(s) with characteristics that for
a particular problem domain at a given point in time cannot
be efficiently processed using
current/existing/established/traditional technologies and
techniques in order to extract value
You may not agree
with the text of that particular definition, but it is not
simply a buzzword. Established technologies have their
limits, and "big data" is what organizations are creating
that has "broken" those technologies causing them to try
to find alternatives to them. As with anything new and in
the media, there will be hangers-on who pervert the
original intent (e.g. the RDBMS vendors now claiming they
are big data too). However, the fact that some
organizations try to take advantage of a problem for their
own purposes does not mean the problem does not exist.
FWIW That same
definition also includes the text:
[Editor’s Note
on June 2014]: there is a concern about the Big Data
definition is too narrow within the dataset(s) concept;
it is more a paradigm shift of technology
changes. Contributions are invited.
Perhaps a few of you might want to take them up on their
invitation.
Cheers,
David
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US +1 336 283 0606
David,
My comments really have more to do with qualifying the subject of a
discussion thread. Ideally, rather than "Big Data" which is
implicitly superfluous, one could refer to the discussion subject
using a term (i.e., leveraging an identifier with dual denotation
and connotation qualities) e.g:
[1] <http://www.openlinksw.com/data/turtle/general/GlossaryOfTerms.ttl#BigData>
[2] <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Big_data>
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
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OpenLink Software
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