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Friday, September 28, 2012

The Big Data Era

There’s a lot of buzz about Hadoop Architecture and Big Data  and how it can help organization do a real time analytics . Few weeks back I read an article somewhere in the internet which says the word “Hadoop“ is actually a name of the creator's son's toy elephant.

There is this 166 pages  book about Understanding Big Data that was shared across our organization. Having gone through the “Contents” and “About the book section” plus some few pages on this book, I  think I could understand at least what the book is trying to say and what they meant when they say “Big Data” or "Hadoop". Frankly speaking, I would myself have though about using an unstructured data if I was to start my own small scale business. But the mechanism I will be following would be the hard way. I would have tried to find a trend in most of the social networking site on what is the latest buzz on peoples mind and what are the things that concerns people the most ( I believe that’s what all these marketing and sales people do in present days). With this method I will just be focusing on a very small part of the unstructured data and make my decision based only on those small information which may be not that effective.


Well, the point I was trying to make here is “The World always finds some complex ways to do things which at times looks like an impossible thing but here it is. Big Data.. Its big.. they say..... I couldn’t imagine what kind of algorithms are developed(or will need to be developed ) to do a real time analytics on unstructured data. The way I understand, in the next few paragraphs I will try to make the readers try to visualize how things could possibly work in the near future.