Big Data For The Masses

Big Data (Photo credit: Kevin Krejci)

Big Data is not new. Walmart has been crunching Big Data for decades now. What's futuristic about the term  though is that Big Data is about to descend to the masses.

Technology Review: Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data

As technology gets more networked, and data sets get larger, graph computation is becoming more and more relevant in many domains ... "Enabling web developers to construct these analyses on their desktop computers catalyzes these industries and accelerates product development." .... "Big data is everywhere now, but some big data isn't as big as it once was, relatively speaking. Tools like GraphChi will let many companies and startups solve all their graph-computing needs on a single machine. It's cost effective, and it drives innovation, too."

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