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What the Big Data

When Henri Verdier, CEO of Cap Digital, Silicon Valley back, exclaiming " all we know the Web will change again with the phenomenon of big data, it is time to take a short tour of horizon.


" Big Data" is a term that has been circulating for some time niche in the hi-tech cloud computing (computer in the cloud ) and refers to tools, processes and procedures that enable a company to create, manipulate and manage very large amounts of data. ( What is "Big Data?" ZD Net)

If giant corporations (think Google, PayPal, eBay, Amazon) are already on the ground, the ability to manage the "Big Data" beginning to be accessible for smaller firms (Big data analytics: From data to business analysts Scientists, Radar O'Reilly). Democratization is

underway, and the "Big Data" will move the heart of companies that will give them a value. We were in the realm of computer science and engineering, and now with such an amount of data it is possible to generate value in the marketing department: the emergence of patterns, up weak signals, cross the base to show trends ( Data, data everywhere , The Economist).

New start-ups offer tools to help navigate these data warehouses (whether structured or not). The 'analytic has good years ahead of her ... ( Data Is Less About Big Size, And More About Freedom , Techcrunch).

The management of these huge databases is not without difficulty. The use of "cloud " allows you an easier way to these datas. Hence the close link between it and the "Big Data". ( The Future Is Big Data in the Cloud , Gigaom).

institutions must adapt to changes in scale gigantic unfolding before them for years. The "Big Data" leaves the sphere of IT to move toward the "business" ...

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To give you an idea of the "Big Data" at a level human, will explore Google N-Gram that gives you access to 5 million digitized books (1000 billion crossword) ...

Articles

File in Nature on Big Data (2008)

Big Data for the Year Ahead: 10 prediction s (ZDnet)

3 "Big-Data" Predictions for 2011


Someone Is Trading Stocks Based on Your Tweets (NYTimes)



(Addition) Untangling the web of social : Software: From retailing to counterterrorism, The Ability to analyze Social Connection is proving increasingly Useful (the Economist) (Claude Theoret thank you for the link)