Interesting Forbes article - which should be of interest to people in the industry and people who are not...as is quoted “if you’re not paying for the service, you’re the product.”!
A worthwhile read. The article begins:
Crack is being served in Silicon Valley. An enthusiastic crowd of geeks and suits — all of them “data scientists” — just spent three days at the O’Reilly Strata conference (#strataconf) in Santa Clara. All over the event’s menu is the crack cocaine of our day: big data.
The full article can be found here.