big data

“Well, I think that big data is our opportunity as a community to catch up quite a bit and becoming a very strong engineering place, and there's essentially, you know, several reasons for that.”

“I think that the, I think the advantage that big data is going to give to companies is going to be temporary. I think it's going to be evolving towards being, ah, something like, ah, like what zero stock was to manufacturing a few years ago where, you know, at…”

“And three, I think that big data is a very interesting opportunity for us, for the, ah, New York tech community to really build an engineering culture in this city, ah, which hasn't been the case so far, but for reasons I'll discuss.”

“Big data is a twenty-year secular trend.”

“I actually do not believe in big data. I believe in small data.”

“What in big data what's happening is, the machine is automating the cognitive functions that people perform, right?”

“Aster was one of the first companies that you, that we used it as our major positioning statement, and I do believe we had the first big data event. Although I may be wrong, but nobody has, ah, nobody has, ah, told me otherwise so far.”

“We use Big Data a lot less because Big Data has lost a lot of the benefit it had for us back in 2009.”

“And honestly, to me, this whole hype will all be real and make sense if, in five, 10 years from now, There is, like, C-level execs, more like me, who are, who actually own the data function, own the science function, and if that actually happens, then this who…”

“Ultimately, the big data game will be won by those who know how to ask and answer interesting questions.”

“When it comes to addressing issues like bias, fairness, and inclusion, perhaps we should instead be focusing our attention on the granular nature of big data.”

“The issue is granularity. In other words, not only do these data sets document social phenomena, they do so at the granularity of individual people and their second-to-second activities.”

“Unlike the data sets arising in physics, the data sets that typically fall under the big data umbrella are about people, Their attributes, their actions, and their interactions. That is to say these are social data sets that document people's lives, behaviors …”

“I think big data is a big buzzword from big company to make big money.”

“It's also a huge maintenance problem. So, a lot of customers we talk to don't want to, you know, forget about the network performance or the CPU computation, right? It's just a management overhead of now there are two copies of something as logically the same.”

“When I think of sharing, I think of the GitHub model, right, where it's not, here's your final published product, but here is, clone it, fork it, and this is how I derive at those insights, so other people can learn from those insights, and that's really impor…”

“And I have a three-part diagnosis, which is that it's fallen in love with statistics, it's fallen in love with big data, and it's forgotten its roots.”

“And to me it feels like, Big data. Maybe six or seven years ago where companies were real waking up and realizing we have all these data assets. We need to do something with them. And that led to the rise of Hadoop and the Hadoop vendors and then, you know, a …”

“Those guardrails were overly restrictive relative to where we felt we could really both source and invest intelligently and to achieve the returns that we were shooting for.”

“But I think it's just now it's so ingrained in pretty much every single thing that you look at or I look at, it's kind of doesn't mean anything anymore.”

“Ultimately it's all the same thing. It's all the same trend, which is basically turning companies from sort of like analog companies that run on, you know, sending Excel spreadsheets around with a lot of manual processes into companies that are intelligent and…”

“Most companies do not in fact have like big data. Perhaps there are a few companies like in genomics or like astrophysics that like actually have, you know, Petabytes of data, but like most data sets are not that big.”