March 23, 2011 — Leading a data science panel at GigaOM’s Structure Big Data conference, Joyent Founder and Chief Scientist Jason Hoffman redefined the concept of big data. Speaking with Chief Scientist Hilary Mason, Cloudscale Founder and CEO, Bill McColl, nPario President and CEO Bassel Ojjeh, he discussed what it means to be a practitioner dealing with big data and the unique systems needed to do that.
Hoffman broke big data down into its components, with the most generic economic good being the bit, the service as the delivery of bits, and the service delivery time as latency Read More
