Heading over to Santa Clara tonight to take part in the Cassandra 2012 summit. Looking forward to some interesting and educational sessions along with presenting a lightning talk on Toad for Cloud Databases. NoSQL Cloud and Big Data are the flavour at the moment and it is interesting to see the difference between true big data (interaction data) and big data sets (large transactional data sets) and the different kinds of analysis they need. For example, true big data analysis may imply possible machine learning implications – like google ad word costing for example. Whereas transactional data analysis (even with large data sets) usually involves rolling up and aggregating to such an extent that real humans can analyze and understand the data. So when people talk about ‘big data analytics’ what kind of data they have should influence what kind of analysis they want to do. I will report back on my findings later this week but I am excited to broaden my knowledge in this area.
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