Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back into the Data By @ABridgwater | @BigDataExpo #BigData

So-called ‘paradigm shifts’ happen across the information technology landscape roughly every five years. We can make this statement with enough approximate ambiguity for it still to be of some value in terms of the way an average CIO might look to plan for major infrastructural changes. As we stand today, Big Data has been around for roughly five years. In the year 2000, famed economist Francis X. Diebold is said to have published the first version of a paper titled “Big Data Dynamic Factor Models for Macroeconomic Measurement and Forecasting” – and the rest we know is modern history.

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