Netflix, Big Data, and the Big Leap of Faith
What will you find in your massive datasets?
As I pen these words, Breaking Bad is in its home stretch.
The gripping drama drew six million viewers for the premier of its last season, nearly twice the total of the Season 4 opener. That's an interesting statistic, my favorite factoid comes from Netflix: Last year, Netflix discovered that an astonishing 50,000 subscribers watched all 13 episodes of the prior season on the day before Season 5 premiered.
Can someone say binge watching?
Now, Big Data skeptics probably see things like this and typically react in one of the following ways:
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