What is big data?

What is the big data? After editorial and correspondent editorials, hoping to get rid of the data piled commercial case, the real, practical data mining story left behind.

Are we reporting a fake big data company? Are we a force in what Bill Franks, the author of "Big Data," calls a "big data scam?" The same question happened to Alibaba. It is reported that March 23, Alibaba to 70 million acquisition of a mobile developer data statistics platform. This led to a heated discussion of experts, it is really a big data acquisition company?

These questions are not without reason.

China does not have the soil for big data. "Almost", "about Qi" cultural label has always existed. In many cases, governments at all levels do not need "big data," and the key figures in making decisions are only one figure. Second, they have large amounts of raw data for industry authorities, but they are still testing , To explore the scale of open data, for example, is to open the original data, or open through a variety of processing data? Is assigned to have a higher level of computing and storage capabilities of large data companies, or open source data, and a variety of Enterprise sharing? Third, the value of data mining tool is not fully recognized. In this area, hardware and software development is not very mature.

Even so, no one deny the data revolution, especially in the Internet industry. Alibaba's Ma will be big data as a strategic direction, Baidu's Li Yanhong "box computing" to plan the future. Even CBA (China Men's Basketball League) also learned a wide range of NBA statistics (NBA Basketball League) statistics, analysis and mining.

In the past two years, significant capital investment has been made in some of the new data-ware companies, which, according to Dow Jones VentureSource, have shipped $ 1.17 billion to 119 database software companies over the past two years. Last year, the market value of SAP surpassed Siemens to become Germany's highest-listed publicly-traded company, and such performance was partly due to the commercialization of HANA, its database software. HANA brought SAP392 million in revenue and increased in the last year 142%.

However, big data can not be analyzed, digging out their direct realization ability. At the deadline, we revisit Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's Big Data Era: The Great Revolution in Life, Work, and Thinking. The author believes that in the future, data Will become a valuable asset. Over time, it will swagger into the balance sheet.