Showing posts with label data scientists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data scientists. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Big Data and the Stalker Economy

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.