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Open Source Big Data for the Impatient Terrence Dorsey3-Oct-12 11:06 Terrence Dorsey 3-Oct-12 11:06  IBM[^]: There is a lot of excitement about Big Data and a lot of confusion to go with it. This article will provide a working definition of Big Data and then work through a series of examples so you can have a first-hand understanding of some of the capabilities of Hadoop, the leading open source technology in the Big Data domain. Specifically let's focus on the following questions. Hadoop 101. more useless jargon technology? devvvy3-Oct-12 20:35 devvvy 3-Oct-12 20:35  can somebody tells me why i shud be excited about "Big Data"? This simply reminds me of Cloud computing (which is quite useless if you work for banks/government/financial) and Business Intelligence/Data Mining (i.e. a lot of un-directional data sniffing) - to me, really, "Business Intelligence" should be secret pwd to client's or competitor mailbox, that's common sense is it? I got a god damn huge logging database which I intend to truncate - that Big Data too? dev

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