Sean Owen, Cloudera, Director of Data Science
Big Data Wins
- BIG DATA TRUMPS SMALL DATA, EVEN WHEN RUN THROUGH SIMPLE ALGORITHMS.
- KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY WHAT SUPERFAST REALLY MEANS FOR YOUR BUSINESS.
“Using sophisticated models to analyze small data sets is ineffective compared to applying simple algorithms to increasingly large data sets.”
For me, Peter Norvig’s “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data” was the turning point. Norvig is the director of research for Google, and his 2009 essay made a convincing argument that using sophisticated models to analyze small data sets is ineffective compared to applying simple algorithms to increasingly large data sets. Big data, in other words, wins.
This is an excerpt from Data Disruption. The eBook was generously sponsored by Mighty Guides.
