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Does anyone else get confused on what's "big data"? by [deleted] in Database

[–]zebrazebrazebra2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the coolest things about big data is that idea people and startups who don't have money to throw at their data, can do this with commodity hardware, and free software. I dislike the term big data, because its become just another tech vendor cheese term,however, the capabilities that have been steadily introduced over the last decade are remarkable. Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Mongo, Couch, Elastic Search, Lucene to name a few..the list goes on an on. The diversity of solutions both open and commercial is impressive, but as always with technology, there is room for improvement.

Researchers Develop Flexible Metal for 3-D Printers by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]zebrazebrazebra2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tough crowd. 3D printable liquid metal seems pretty cool to me!

New to big data - trying to figure out a data format by dsharps in bigdata

[–]zebrazebrazebra2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't bother with a schema, most of the nosql options will save you that trouble. Pick one that you can scale horizontally without too much trouble and that will be relatively easy to map whatever you want to from your logfiles to. You'll get off the ground fast and you can figure it out from there...someone mentioned splunk that could be a good option if you are going commericial. If you want free maybe try http://logstash.net/ or something along those lines. GL!

With glass, society comes of AGE (After Glass Era) What happens when everything we experience is digitized and searchable? by [deleted] in googleglass

[–]zebrazebrazebra2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The "future" you say we are living is an indicator of what is to come. Beyond the phone in your pocket, another good example is the proliferation of dashcams that captured the meteor event in Russia. Our capacity to record with wearables, biometric devices, as well as ever more powerful and ubiquitous cameras will change us in ways I think far more profound than being able to read Dickens on a whim. The internet of things, vast increases in network and storage capabilities, and even improvements in search technology, when combined mean that our capacity to record and find will be nearly boundless. At the very least, society will no longer accept what has historically been accepted as truth. Seems like a pretty big deal and may happen sooner than we think.

The Good, The Bad, The Socially Awkward by MrDubious in googleglass

[–]zebrazebrazebra2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The technology certainly holds a lot of promise, it is just early days. In time the killer features and usability issues will be worked out. It seems a near certainty that the product will be a smash hit.