Nguyen: Big Data Progress Is Driven by Cheaper Tech, Not Smarter People
Christopher Nguyen · a16z Podcast | Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:20
Christopher Nguyen, CEO of Adatao and former CS professor, explains why big data and machine learning expanded rapidly when platforms like Hadoop made data storage affordable.
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“We don't necessarily get smarter over time. It's just that certain technologies get cheaper. They get, they become more available. So machine learning algorithms have always been around. The data that exists that you could collect has always been around. But it wasn't until the advent of things like the Hadoop project, right? And the launch of companies like Cloudera and MapR back in It made it affordable for many, many more companies to begin acquiring and storing a lot of this data.”
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