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Friday, June 28, 2013

The story of 'Big Data'

Bob, a dairy farm owner, was unhappy. He owned many cows but could not milk them efficiently. Business was good though.

One morning, his neighbor, an owner of fodder factory, came and told him that he had found a way to efficiently milk the cows by letting them sleep for 24 hours and then milking them. Bob ran towards his farm, shouting "big cow, big cow"...

Bob and his neighbor were very happy. Bob got more cows to earn more profit. Few months passed.

One fine morning, his neighbor came and told him that he had found a way to milk the cows round the clock, without going through 24 hours of sleep period - by giving a rapid burst of low voltage electric shock to cows. Bob ran towards his farm, shouting "real-time big cow, real-time big cow"...

Now we have big cows, real-time big cows and fodder factories everywhere.

4 comments:

  1. One question though... patterns can only be found by looking at data for a longer term. You cannot identify trends by just looking at today's data ? So I think you have to let it sleep for some time.

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  2. One question though...patterns can only be found by looking at data for a longer period of time. One cannot call trends by analyzing only today's data. So i think we should let the cows sleep for some time.

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