WILL HAYES CEO, Lucidworks

@IAmWillHayes

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Our Reality

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We are at or near "peak hype" as it relates to Big Data.News headlines for term: "big data"

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An entire job category has been created.News headlines for term: "data scientist"

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We’ve seen similar trends like this before...News headlines for term: "snuggie"

Gartner Hype Cycle

Why?If ever there was a technology that could have avoided the hype cycle, then it should have been big data.

Data as a vicious cycle:

More Data

Increased IT Spend

Next Big Technology

Big Data Infrastructure Big Data Applications

Big Data Infrastructure Big Data Applications

Data as a virtuous cycle:

Content (Data)

Crowd(User Action)

ContextMeasure Results

Lucene/Solr

Will Hayes @iamwillhayes