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

Facebook

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

Google

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

Instagram

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

Twitter

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