Index
A
A/B testing
ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) principles
adjacent possible
Adner, Ron, The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation
The Age of the Platform (Simon)
Amazon
Best Buy price matching
Big Data statistics
Google and Amazon model
shipping fee error
analysis
A/B testing
data visualization
heat maps
Tableau software
time series analysis
Visually software
predictive analytics
LDMU (Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility)
LLN (Law of Large Numbers)
regression analysis
sentiment analysis
text analytics
Anderson, Chris
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
“Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter”
Angry Birds
Apache
Cassandra
Hadoop (See Hadoop)
Apple, Big Data statistics
appliances
applications
AppStore (Apple)
automation
machine learning
nanotechnology
NFC (near field communication)
RFID (radio-frequency identification)
sensors
B
bad data
Bayesian methods of analysis
Beane, Billy
Howe, Art, and
sabermetrics and
Best Buy
Bezos, Jeff
Bhambhri, Anjul
BI (business intelligence)
Big Brother
Big Data
acceptance gains within organization
bad data and
capabilities
characteristics
checklist
community knowledge
as complement
completeness
conferences and
consumers
current presence
data model evolution
definition
dynamism
evolution
experiments
fragmentation
goal setting
goals
Google Trends
as initiative
IT and
iterativeness
limitations
market size
naysayers
network effects
Obama re-election and
pitfalls
precision
predictions and
revolution
consumers and
platforms and
social media
technology costs
startup
timing
training for
unpredictability
venture capitalists and
vision
Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity
The Big Short (Lewis)
BigQuery (Google)
BigTable (Google)
Black Swan (Taleb)
Bricklin, Dan
BrightContext
Brin, Sergei
bucket testing. See A/B testing
Burry, Dr. Michael
business readiness
BYOD (bring your own device)
C
CapitalOne, A/B testing
car insurance
Progressive, Snapshot
Carnegie Mellon University, Very Large Information Systems course
case studies
Explorys
NASA
Quantcast
Cassandra
citizen journalists
Cloudera
Kornacker, Marcel
CloudFlare, machine learning and
Cognos
collaborative filtering
columnar databases
complementary role of Big Data
completeness of Big Data
composition of data
consumers
Big Data revolution and
consumer fatigue
costs
Amazon fee shipping error
data storage
COTS (commercial off the shelf) system
crowdsourcing, recommendation engines
The Cult of the Amateur (Keen)
D
data. See also Big Data
born digital
composition
versus heuristics
limitations
metadata
poly-structured
versus rules of thumb
science risks
scientists
problem solving
semi-structured
structured data
transactional data
unstructured
The Data Asset: How Smart Companies Govern Their Data for Business Success (Fisher)
Data Deluge
Laney, Douglas
variety
velocity
volume
data disconnect
Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset (Redman)
data dysfunction
data governance
data management
as continuum
data governance
MDM (master data management)
data mining
Data Mining 2.0
data model evolution
data storage costs
data theft, employees
data visualization
heat maps
Tableau software
time series analysis
Visually software
DataFlux
De Goes, John
Deep Web
digital, birth of data
DLF (Data Liberation Front)
Dremel (Google)
Dunbar’s Number
dynamism of Big Data
dysfunctional data
E
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
EHRs (electronic health records)
e-mail, semi-structured data
employees
data theft
knowledge workers
employers, BYOD (bring your own device)
Enterprise Miner (SAS)
Epstein, Theo
ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram)
ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems
ETL (extract, transform, and load)
exabytes
Exif (Exchangeable Image File) data
experimenting with Big Data
Explorys case study
F
Big Data statistics
Google and
Hadoop and
machine learning and
fail whale
Feldman, Konrad
filtering, collaborative
Fisher, Tony, The Data Asset: How Smart Companies Govern Their Data for Business Success
Flickr
Rush 2012 Las Vegas Photos
searches
fragmentation of Big Data
Frankston, Bob
Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Anderson)
Friedman, Thomas L., That Used to Be Us: How American Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Fruition Sciences
G
gamification
goal setting
Goldbloom, Anthony
Amazon model and
Big Data statistics
Big Data tools
BigQuery
BigTable
Dremel
Facebook information and
machine learning and
MapReduce
Safari browser
Street View
Trends, Big Data
Great Recession
Grid Engine
Grimes, Seth
H
Hack, Martin
Hadapt
Hadoop
Cloudera
enterprise vendors
Facebook and
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (White)
HBase
HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)
Hive
Hortonworks
limitations
MapR
MapReduce
origins
Pig
Splunk
start-ups, Hadoop-based
Talend
Hammerbacher, Jeff
hardware considerations
Harris, Jim
Hastings, Reed
HBase
HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)
heat maps
heuristics, versus data
high elasticity of demand
Hortonworks
housing market
Howard, Jeremy
Howe, Art
HR (Human Resources), data use
Huffington Post, machine learning and
Hurricane Sandy
Hyperion
I
IA (Information Access)
IM (information management), employees and
infonomics
information size
exabytes
zettabytes
Infosphere BigInsights
insurance, car insurance
Progressive
Intelligent Miner
Internet of Things
intranets
IOD (Information on Demand) conference
iPhone, AppStore
IR (Information Retrieval)
IT and Big Data
J
Jain, Anil
James, Bill, sabermetrics and
Johnson, Stephen, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
K
Kaggle
Kahler, Scott
Keen, Andrew, The Cult of the Amateur
Kelley, Kevin
knowledge bases
knowledge workers
Kornacker, Marcel, Cloudera
Kryder’s Law
L
Laney, Douglas
Big Data definition
LDMU (Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility)
The Lean Startup (Reis)
Lewis, Michael
The Big Short
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
limitations of data
LLN (Law of Large Numbers)
Lougheed, Charlie
Lytro, photo focus
M
machine learning
Mandelbaum, Michael, That Used to Be Us: How American Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
MapR
MapReduce (Google)
mass market
Mauboussin, Michael J., The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
McHale, Stephen
McKinsey, Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity
McKnight, William
MDM (master data management)
Meil, Doug
Menino, Thomas
urban mechanics
metadata
Netflix
photos
Rush 2012 Las Vegas Photos
metapredictions
Microsoft Analysis Services
MicroStrategy
Mitchell, Tom
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Lewis)
Morey, Daryl, sabermetrics and
MRP (manufacturing resource planning) systems
N
nanotechnology, automation and
NASA case study
Nest Thermostat
Netflix
Qwikster
New Urban Mechanics
NewSQL
NFC (near field communication)
NLP (Natural Language Processing)
NoSQL databases
O
Obama, Barack, re-election
ODaF (Open Data Foundation)
OLAP (online analytical processing)
P
Page, Larry
Pail, D.J.
Pandora
paradox
Path app (iOS)
Pho, Kevin
photos
Exif (Exchangeable Image File) data
Lytro
Rush 2012 Las Vegas Photos
tagging
platforms
AppStore (Apple)
Big Data Revolution and
Pole, Andrew
poly-structured data
pothole reporting
Precog
predictions
Big Data and
metapredictions
pregnancy
Silver, Nate
predictive analytics
LLN (Law of Large Numbers)
pregnancy predictions
privacy
security issues
problem solving like data scientists
Progressive insurance, Snapshot
Q
Quantcast case study
querying data, JOIN statements
Qwikster
R
RainStor
RDBMS (relational database management system)
recommendation engines
recruiting
Redman, Tom, Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset
Redshift
refrigerators
regression analysis
regression toward the mean
Reis, Eric
Book Cover Experiment Data
The Lean Startup
relational data models
research, translational
retaining employees
RFID (radio-frequency identification)
automation and
student IDs
RIM (Research in Motion)
road hazard reporting
Rush
collaborative filtering and
fuzzy pictures
Rush 2012 Las Vegas Photos
S
sabermetrics
James, Bill
Morey, Daryl and
Safari browser, Google and
SAS Enterprise Miner
Scion Capital
searches, Flickr
Sears
security issues
semi-structured data
sensors, automation and
sentiment analysis
SEO (search engine optimization)
showrooming
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don’t (Silver)
Silver, Nate
data-driven predictions
limitations of data
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don’t
Skytree
Small Data
Smart ThinQ appliances
smartphones
BYOD (bring your own device)
RIM (Research in Motion)
tagging
social media
Big Data Revolution
fatigue
split testing. See A/B testing
Splunk
SQL (Structured Query Language)
NewSQL
NoSQL databases
starting with Big Data
statistical significance
statistical techniques
A/B testing
regression
storage solutions
columnar databases
NewSQL
NoSQL databases
Street Bump road hazard reporting app
Street View (Google)
structured data
ratio to unstructured
semi-structured data
sub-prime housing
The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing (Mauboussin)
Summly, machine learning and
Super Bowl
Surface Web
Sutter, Paul
Sybase
T
Tableau software
tagging
photos
smartphones
TALC (Technology Adoption Life Cycle)
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, Black Swan
Tapscott, Don, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
“Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter” (Anderson)
technology
costs, Big Data revolution and
TALC (Technology Adoption Life Cycle)
ubiquitous
text analytics
That Used to Be Us: How American Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (Friedman and Mandelbaum)
time series analysis
tools, disclaimers
training for Big Data
transactional data
translational research
Tucci, Joseph
Big Data statistics
machine learning and
Tyreman, Gary
U
unstructured data
ratio to structured
Web 2.0
V
variety (Big Data)
VDP (Vibrant Data Project)
velocity (Big Data)
venture capitalists, Big Data and
VisiCalc
vision
visualization
heat maps
Tableau software
time series analysis
Visually software
Visually software
VoltDB
volume (Big Data)
W
Web 2.0
unstructured data
WebVan
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Johnson)
White, Tom, Hadoop: The Definitive Guide
The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation (Adner)
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Tapscott and Williams)
wikis
Williams, Anthony D., Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
X–Y–Z
XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
zettabytes
Zuckerberg, Mark