The relational database is becoming increasingly less useful in our current data driven world.
Category Archives: Data
Why do computers torture their users?
Do millions of interconnected computers conspire to torture you, or did yours just get lucky?
The Data Tsunami
Data, Data, Data… lots of it to store and analyze. Twitter has gone from zero to over 200 million tweets per day. Facebook uploads more than 250 million photos per day. If Facebook were a country (based on population), it would be the third largest country in the world after China and India.
Collecting “Big Data”
As data collectors, we have reached our capacity to collect, store, manipulate and analyze “Big Data” information. There is no going back.
We have lots of data, can we do something intelligent with it?
The world’s data is doubling every 18 months. Everyone is talking about the concept of Big Data, and how this new technology will transform the way we all live. Will it really?
Is technology making us stupid?
Are technologists missing the old-fashioned analog pleasures in life, like the joy of reading a real book?