PHIL SIMON
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2 Comments
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JimJacques on 03/20/2013 at 11:05 pm
Basic observation… if an organization cannot—will not?—apply discipline to organizing its SMALL data, big data is just going to be much worse.
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Phil Simon on 03/26/2013 at 6:38 am
I don’t know if I’d go that far, Jim. Embracing Big Data while ignoring Small Data is definitely not a prescription for success, though.
Basic observation… if an organization cannot—will not?—apply discipline to organizing its SMALL data, big data is just going to be much worse.
I don’t know if I’d go that far, Jim. Embracing Big Data while ignoring Small Data is definitely not a prescription for success, though.