In his blog post Big Data Or Big Hype? , Rick Ciesla is asking a question whether the “Big Data” phenomenon is “a real thing” or just a hype? I must admit that, until recently, I was sure that the term “Data Science” was a hype too — an overbroad term to describe various engineering and scientific activities. As time passes by, I become more and more confident that Data Science matures into a separate profession. I haven’t’ yet decided whether the word “science” is fully appropriate in this case is.
We have certainly heard a lot about Big Data in recent years, especially with regards to data science and machine learning. Just how large of a data set constitutes Big Data? What amount of data science and machine learning work involves truly stratospheric volumes of bits and bytes? There’s a survey for that, courtesy of […]
Boris Gorelik 