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Tuesday, 7 December 2010
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Big Data is snake oil

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It’s because data is powerful but fickle. A lot of theoretically promising approaches don’t work because there’s so many barriers between spotting a possible relationship and turning it into something useful and actionable. […] Here’s some of the hurdles you’ll have to jump:

  • Acquisition
  • Coverage
  • Over-determination
  • Poor correlations
  • Noise

Differently put: 1) data is not the goal, but only the means and 2) what you’ll discover behind data will (many times) be different than your initial assumptions/expectations.

Original title and link: Big Data is snake oil (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)

via: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/12/data-is-snake-oil.html