List of Tables and Figures

Figure P.1 Michael Lewis and Billy Beane with Katty Kay at IBM Information on Demand 2011

Table I.1 Big Data Improves Recruiting and Retention

Figure I.1 The Internet in One Minute

Figure I.2 The Drop in Data Storage Costs

Figure I.3 The Technology Adoption Life Cycle (TALC)

Table 1.1 Simple Example of Structured Customer Master Data

Table 1.2 Simple Example of Transactional Sales Data

Figure 1.1 Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

Figure 1.2 Flickr Search Options

Figure 1.3 The Ratio of Structured to Unstructured Data

Figure 1.4 The Organizational Data Management Pyramid

Figure 2.1 Google Trends for Big Data

Figure 2.2 The Deep Web

Table 3.1 Sample Regression Analyses

Table 3.2 Simple CapitalOne A/B Test Example with Hypothetical Data

Figure 3.1 Reis’s Book Cover Experiment Data

Figure 3.2 Tableau Interactive Data Visualization on How We Eat

Figure 3.3 RFID Tag

Figure 3.4 Google Autocomplete

Table 4.1 The Four General Types of NoSQL Databases

Table 4.2 Google Big Data Tools

Table 4.3 Is Big Data Worth It? Hardware Considerations

Figure 5.1 Quantcast Quantified Dashboard

Table 6.1 Big Data Short- and Long-Term Goals

Figure 8.1 Retail Awareness of Big Data