Module 5 Big Data Resources
The following links provide additional resources of various types and lengths for you to explore on your own and to your liking for a more extensive look at Big Data.
TOP 10 RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
- Videos & Recordings:
- Making sense of too much data Links to an external site., 13 TED playlists explaining big data
- Navigating the Future with Web Data Links to an external site. (2014) by Christopher Ahlberg, TEDx Cambridge
- The Personal Implications of Big Data Links to an external site. from EmTech MIT 2012 (may not work in Google Chrome)
- "The impact that emerging technologies are having in our world will inevitably affect our personal lives. How is the convergence of big data and 'social' technologies changing how we live and work? What are the implications?"
- Participants: Jason Pontin (MIT Technology Review), Andrew Fiore and Eytan Bakshy (Facebook), Duncan Watts (Microsoft), Shane Green (Personal)
- Articles & Reports:
- Big Data: Are you ready for blast-off? (2014) by Matthew Wall, BBC News: The Technology of Business
- Big data, big business, Big Brother? Links to an external site. (2014) by Gerd Leonhard, futurist, keynote speaker, strategist, author and CEO of The Futures Agency, CNN Mobile World Congress
- Four trends driving the future of big data Links to an external site. (2014) by Robert Pepper, World Economic Forum
- Global Information Technology Report 2014 Links to an external site. (PDF Links to an external site.file), World Economic Forum
- The risks and rewards of big data are reviewed
- Why "Big Data" Is a Big Deal Links to an external site. (2014) by Jonathan Shaw (PDF Links to an external site. file), Harvard Magazine
- This is a longer article, but discusses numerous applications in today's real world that are relevant to all.
- Websites:
- Forrester Big Data Blog Links to an external site.: An aggregation of blogs from company contributors focusing on Big Data topics.
- planet BigData Links to an external site.: This site is "an aggregator of blogs about big data, Hadoop, and related topics [that] include[s] posts by bloggers worldwide."
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Books:
- Big Data @ Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities (2014) by Tom Davenport
- Big Data Analytics: Disruptive Technologies for Changing the Game (2012) by Arvind Sathi.
- Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think? (2013) by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier
- The Naked Future: What Happens in a World that Anticipates Your Every Move? (2014) by Patrick Tucker
- Popular big data books from Goodreads
Videos/Recordings:
- Google Tech Talk Presented by Google and the Fung Institute at UC Berkeley
Leaders in Big Data
Links to an external site.
- MIT Technology Annual Conference (EmTech)
- All 2013 videos Links to an external site., Emtech 2013
- Several presentations on big data (scroll through the list of sessions for topics)
- All EmTech 2012 Videos Links to an external site. (may not work in Google Chrome)
- YouTube Video:
Introducing Apache Hadoop: The Modern Data Operation System
Links to an external site.of the future, according to Amr Awadallah, from Stanford University
- YouTube Video:
Engineers Unplugged: Big Data
Links to an external site.
Articles & Reports:
- ‘Big Data’ Emerges as Key Theme at South by Southwest Interactive (2012) by Jeffery R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Big Data Is a Big Deal (2014), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Current Events Economics (short article)
- Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values (2014) Executive Office of the President
- A 90-day study examined how big data transformed the way we live and work and alters the relationships between government, citizens, businesses, and consumers.
- "This review focuses on how the public and private sectors can maximize the benefits of big data while minimizing its risks. It also identifies opportunities for big data to grow our economy, improve health and education, and make our nation safer and more energy efficient."
- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company
- Big Data Definition Consists of Three Parts, Not to be Confused with Three "V"s (2013) by Svetlana Sicular
- Big Data will Revolutionize
Cyber Security in the Next Two Years 2014) by - Hadoop and Big Data from Cloudera Chief Architect Doug Cutting
- How to Explain Hadoop to Non-Geeks by Jeff Bertolucci, InformationWeek
- InformationWeek: Big Data section
- IT Glossary: Big Data (Gartner’s free research section) - Gartner Research
- Who Owns Big Data? by Michael Nielsen from BBVA Group’s OpenMind
- Publicly Available Big Data Sets - hadoop illuminated alpha
- Provides links to numerous sites offering open-access data files
- It also has a section with links to big data news and blogs sites, and
- A basic overview of big data
- Will Big Data Make Free Will Irrelevant? Links to an external site. (2014) by Big Think Editors and subsequent video with Kenneth Cukier, the data editor of The Economist
- In this brief article and short video that follows, Cukier "considers the implications of Big Data's ability to predict whether someone has a high likelihood of committing a crime."
Websites:
- Big on Data Blog Links to an external site. by Andrew Brust who covers Big Data technologies including Hadoop, NoSQL, Data Warehousing, BI and Predictive Analytics for ZDNet.
- DataMarket Links to an external site.: "Searching and visualizing public data on datamarket.com is free of charge and open to all. By just signing up, anyone can find data, upload their own, purchase premium content and share their findings."
- GigaOM Data Blog Links to an external site.: "The leading global voice on emerging technologies [whose] blog, research and events humanize technology and provide deep insight on disruptive companies, people and trends."
- Smarter Computing Blog: Big Data & Analytics Links to an external site. section from IBM.
- Top 10 News/Blog Sites for Big Data Links to an external site. (2012) by Jen Cohen Crompton from SAS (some on the list are included separately in these Resources).
Conferences:
- 9 Big Data Conferences to Put on Your Calendar Links to an external site., plus more listed at the bottom
- Big Data Congress: Focuses on "practical examples, advice and real world evidence, with an emphasis on engaging content and interactive formats, delivered by the experience market leaders.
- Analytics & Big Data Europe Congress Links to an external site. (London, Dec. 2014)
- They also hold Big Data World Links to an external site. (2014 past), Latin America Links to an external site. (Aug. 2014), and Asia Links to an external site. (Nov. 2014) Congresses
- Databeat Links to an external site. Annual Conference (2014 conference in San Francisco)
- A VentureBeat Links to an external site. Event: "the leading source for news and perspective on technology innovation."
- InForms Annual Meeting Links to an external site. (San Francisco, Nov. 2014: Bridging Data and Decisions Links to an external site.) and Conferences Links to an external site. held throughout the world
- The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is "the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics."
- International Conference on Big Data Links to an external site. aims to provide an international forum that formally explores various business insights of all kinds of value-added "services."
- From IEEE Links to an external site. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): "the world’s largest professional association advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community to innovate for a better tomorrow."
Lessons:
- Big Data Lessons: What is it?
Links to an external site. - Google Sites
- Tools for Manipulating Big Data Links to an external site., Google Fusion (online applications) - Google Sites
Big Data Practice Quizzes: (see how much you know with these fun quizzes)
- Big Data Interactive Quiz Links to an external site. - Google Sites
- Big Data Infrastructure Quiz Links to an external site. - TechTarget DataCenter
- Big Data analytics tools and best practices quiz Links to an external site. - TechTarget Business Analytics
- Do You Really Know Big Data quiz Links to an external site. - Adaptive Computing Blog
- Big Data Analytics quiz Links to an external site. - TechWeek Europe Quiz of the Week Links to an external site.