Big Data

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1. swahOct 2015
   Also, this book is a great read: https://www.manning.com/books/big-data
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2. ravivyasDec 2013
   I am planning to buy a few Kindle Books as Amazon as a good sale running, which Books should I buy? I already got the following today:

   The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

   All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All

   Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think

   The Effective Executive (Harperbusiness Essentials)

   The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses

   The Four Steps to the Epiphany

   Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break through the Clutter, and Win More Customers by Marketing Less

   What the Dog Saw: and other adventures

   Outliers: The Story of Success

   Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)

   David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling GiantsGladwell, Malcolm

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3. topherjaynesDec 2011
   Looking for the same thing, came across these big data bibliographies/howto which have been helpful:

   http://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Bibliography-ebook/dp/B005QH2...

   http://www.amazon.com/Data-Analysis-Open-Source-Tools/dp/059...

   Also stats in a nutshell is a good reference: http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Nutshell-Desktop-Reference-...

   Lastly, little bit of discussion going on over at stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/190201/statistics-book-re...

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4. joefreemanApr 2020
   This sounds like (a simpler version of?) Lambda Architecture [1, 2]

   [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_architecture [2] https://www.manning.com/books/big-data

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5. platzOct 2018
   "a worldview built on the important of causation is being challenged by a preponderance of correlations. The possession of knowledge, which once meant an understanding of the past, is coming to mean an ability to predict the future." - Big Data (Schonberger & Cukier)

   so, knowledge now is allegedly possession of the future, rather than possession of the past.

   This is because the future and past are structurally the same thing in these models. Each could be missing, but re-creatable links.

   Also, conflicting correlations can be shown all the time. if almost any correlation can be shown to be real, what's true? How do we deal with conflicting correlations?

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6. dasbothApr 2015
   I like how most people here have a fiction and non-fiction book on the go at the same time. Not just me then :)

   Currently reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, after finishing East of Eden, which I loved. On the non-fiction front I'm reading Big Data by Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Both interesting and compelling in their own ways.

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