The Hype of Big Data

As preface to this you might check out the definition I suggested for Big Data last week here… – Rob I left Greenplum in large part because they made their mark in… and then abandoned… the  data warehouse market for a series of big hype plays: first analytics and data science; then analytics, data science,…

Data Science or Data Alchemy

  I love the tweetness of the @howarddresner posts restated here regarding data science… and the dialog it has started… and I would like to add a twist to the conversation.   First a story…   I once consulted for a company who was building a marketing service for their clients. They targeted customers with products provided…