MJ Suhonos and Peter Van Garderen from Artefactual Systems did a talk on big data in libraries. In particular, I was interested in some of the points MJ talked about on big data. Here are my notes:
- relative: 1980: 2.5GB = big data
- definition: datasets that grow so large, become difficult to work with
- big data is… big, and complicated
- maybe we’ve simply been putting a square big in a round hole
- don’t believe the cloud hype
- big data is less about size, and more about freedom
- open source tools + distributed design = new opportunities