The document discusses big data analytics. It defines big data analytics as extracting value from large volumes of a wide variety of data by analyzing it to reveal patterns, trends and associations. This analysis can help companies gain competitive advantages by using the insights for applications like predictive analytics, risk analysis, recommendation systems, and more. It notes that while big data analytics can provide opportunities, it also presents challenges due to its technical complexity. It proposes a big data analytics suite that would make these tools more accessible to businesses.
8. What is Big
Data?
Value
Competitive or Collective
advantage
Variety
Volume
Structured
Unstructured
Human Generated
Machine Generated
Terabytes
Petabytes
Exabytes
Zetabytes
Velocity
User populations x
Transaction rates x
Machine data
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18. Big Data
Analytics
Big Data Analytics
AKA Data Science
Collective
Intelligence
Machine
Learning
Programs that use
inputs from
“crowds’ to seem
intelligent
Programs that
evolve with
“experience”
Predictive
Analytics
Programs that
extrapolate from
existing data into
the future
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28. Big Data
Analytics is
HARD!
• Machine learning, collective
intelligence, Hadoop,
predictive analytics, R, Weka,
Mahout, are HARD
• Small-medium businesses
need help to compete
• Data scientists to the rescue?
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