What is Big Data, and why you could care

January 8, 2011

That’s the title for my talk this coming Thursday  night (January 13th, 2011), at the first “Tech Talk” sponsored by Sierra Commons. Details are at http://sierracommons.org/2011/local-business/2108.

Erika Kosina has done a great job of setting this up, and I’m looking forward to meeting more of the local tech community.

Some of the things I’ll be touching on are:

  • Why big data is the cool new kid on the block, or why I wished I really knew statistics.
  • Crunching big data to filter, cluster, classify and recommend.
  • How big data + machine learning == more effective advertising, for better or worse.
  • The basics of Hadoop, an open source data processing system.

Hope to see you there!

 

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