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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.com, he dispensed with the usual PowerPoint presentations and instead gave potential investors a look at the crown jewels: the "dashboard" of real-time analytics that can instantly spot trends and enable the site to tweak its offerings on the fly.
Every so often a term becomes so beloved by media that it moves from “instructive” to “hackneyed” to “worthless,” and Big Data is one of those terms.
Big data and data science have both been with us for a while. According to McKinsey & Company's May 2011 report on big data , back in 2009 "nearly all sectors in the U.S. economy had at least an average of 200 terabytes of stored data ... per company with more than 1,000 employees."
5 Apr 2011
‘ Big Data ‘ is currently capturing the imagination, attracting hype, investment and ambitious startups in almost equal measure. Kim and Eric Norlin’s excellent Defrag and Glue events have gained big-name company, with O’Reilly ‘s Strata and GigaOM ‘s Structure both set to arrive in the first quarter of 2011. Venture firms like IA Ventures have emerged, specifically targeted at finding, funding, and profiting from the big Big Data idea.