The best big data presentation I've ever seen

[#1]

By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy  

I saw the best presentation I've ever seen on big data at the Nth Generation Symposium last week.  The session was delivered by Marc Demarest, Founder & Principal of Noumenal, Inc.  Marc didn't talk about big data from a vendor perspective but from a customer perspective.  After Marc's session, I grabbed him before he could get out off the stage and asked to do a podcast with him, which he graciously did.  This is a fantastic overview of his session. 

In the podcast, we focused on a definition Marc used for big data that focuses on six dimensions:

• Volume - how much?
• Velocity - how fast?
• Viscosity - how actionable?
• Value - how leverageable
• Variability - how "normalized"?
• Variety - what types?

Here's the podcast with Marc.  

If you rather download this as a podcast, right click here and save the MP3 file. You can also subscribe to my podcast on iTunes - go to the iTunes store and search for "Around the Storage Block" or you can open this link and click on the "View in iTunes" button under my picture. 

I have audio and slides from Marc's entire session - let me know what you think of the podcast and if I get a positive response, I'll create a YouTube video of Marc's Nth Generation Symposium session.

[#2]

Interesting, pretty high level, but useful for conceptualizing use cases for applying big data analysis outside of what I previously considered.

I'd be interested to see and hear the entire session, please put it up on YT.

thanks

PS: no mention of Hadoop or Dremel, but points for "grok"

[#3]

Interested as well in seeing the whole presentation