What is the big deal about Big Data?A bubble or a boom?

Sudheer MarisettiAbacus Concepts Inc.“A Data Engineering Company”

The Incredible Big Data !!

Story of woman in Washington State who was suggested a friend in Facebook who turned out to be the second wife of her husband !!

Story of a father who complained to Target retail store about getting coupons for pregnant women not knowing that Target knew his teenage daughter was pregnant even before the father knew !!

The story of my friend who is puzzled how restaurants he visits knows his preferences !!

Intelligent Appliances

Nest Labs Intelligent Thermostats that knows when and how you want to be comfortable at home.

Passive digital sensors in industrial equipment, cars, electrical meters, shipping crates measuring temperature, vibrations, humidity, chemical changes.

Stretchable Electronics – wearable in your cloths that monitor your health – Nike+ Feul Band

Social Network & Big Data

United Nations Global Pulse initiative – leverages Big Data using sentiment analysis of messages in Social networks and text messages to predict job losses, spending reductions, disease outbreaks in Africa.

Education & Data Analytics

Coursera – Daphne Koller Ted Talk Video

Khan Academy – Salman Khan’s Ted Talk Video

Arizona State University – eAdvisor

Austin Peay State University – Degree Compass program recommends courses for students (Poster)

Distance learning University Athabasca – focus on topics it predicts that student will have trouble in.

…. Education

Flagging students who have higher tendency to fail and drop out.

Social ties of students can influence academic success so student social activity tracked through student ID card swipes at cafeteria, fitness center, book stores, etc.

Engaging the students in a subject by tracking their progress. Improving professors teaching by analyzing student’s missteps.

Where is Big Data now?

“We’re in the pre-industrial age of Big Data.” Martin Wattenberg, creator of wind map and now at Google.

Unlock the “the gold locked up in 30 years of relational databases.” – Clear Page Founder

Is it a Bubble?

It is possible. Like the previous bubbles – Railway bonds, Radio, RCA, Internet/dot com – it could burst but will settle down like the rest to play a significant role in our lives.

How to be a Data Scientist

McKinsey Global Institute projected that US needs 140k to 190k workers with "deep analytical" expertise and 1.5 million more data literate managers

Statistics, Linear Algebra

Algorithms, Machine Learning

Programming Languages – R, Python, Java

Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Pig

Recommended Coursera Courses

Statistics One

Web Intelligence and Big Data

Machine Learning

Computing for Data Analysis

Data Analysis

Future of Big Data in India

A country of 1.2 Billion people

Second largest mobile phone users

Nation full of social problems looking for us to solve them

What works in India works is useful even developing nations – Reverse Innovation