Here is a great question I found and answered on Quora.  I thought I would post it so we can stay up-to-date on the answers: Can Big Data and Social Media help HR in efficient/quality hiring? Thanks for taking the time to visit the weblog!William Sharpsharp@thedataqualitychronicle.org [1] Kusnetzky, Dan. What is “Big Data?”. ZDNet. http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1708  [...]

Here is a great question I found on Quora and thought I’d post it so we can stay up-to-date on the answers: What are some of the slick tools available to wrangle “Big Data” datasets? Thanks for taking the time to visit the weblog!William Sharpsharp@thedataqualitychronicle.org

I thought I’d post this and go against the grain of all the recent “big data” hype. I like the presentation because it is more realistic and honest than I have seen lately. Antony Falco, COO and Co-Founder of Basho, put this presentation together.  In it Antony talks frankly about the shift from traditional relational data [...]

Big Data Confusion Big Data has been marketed as the solution to increase profits and aid in the discovery of all kinds of new associations from fraud detection to patient health care.  Big data seems to be linked to websites like Amazon, Google and Twitter.  Big Data also seems to be linked to solutions like Hadoop and [...]

Is Big Data better Data Quality? Big Data is everywhere.  Chances are you’ve used a big data solution today.  However, are big data solutions delivering big data quality? High Availability versus High Data Quality Typically, Big Data solutions are designed to ensure high availability.  High availability is based on the concept that it is more important to collect [...]