Explainer video: When does data become big data?

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/16/explainer-video-when-does-dat.html

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[Raoul]

When it crashes Excel - usually 25-50MB input file unless you are using .xlsb

[anothernewbbaccount]

Is one of the ten Vs ‘victimise’? Or ‘voyeuristic’? Or ‘vulgarity’? Or ‘vexatious’?

[anon59592690]

If they are will you feel victoriously vindicated?

[jandrese]

Rule of thumb is if you can’t fit it on a single hard drive (currently around 15TB) then you might have big data.

[anothernewbbaccount]

Very!

(Oh dear. Here we go again.)

[anon62122146]

Much like when simple automation or algorithms become “AI,” it happens when someone wants to use a fashionable buzzword for whatever they’re doing.

[delightfultree]

Is that similar to how everything that was 3D two years ago is VR now?

[PAPPP]

My favorite big data aphorism (I’ve been seeing variations since 2013 or so, I have no idea where first cause is or I’d attribute) is “Big Data, n.: the belief that any sufficiently large pile of shit contains a pony with probability approaching 1.”

[FGD135]

[tuhu]

More importantly, when does Big Data become Big Data Kane?

[anon62122146]

@PAPPP

Big Data, n.: the belief that any sufficiently large pile of shit contains a pony with probability approaching 1.”

And also the belief that in a pile of shit large enough to contain a pony by random chance, you are capable of sifting through that shit and finding the pony sometime before the sun goes nova.