Ask HN: What Happened to Big Data?
by night-rider on Hacker News.
There was a buzzword Big Data which regularly popped up in tech news. I haven’t seen the word used much lately. What advances are being made on it? I imagine with various privacy scandals it fell out of favour since your data should be /your/ data only. And many have talked about data being the ‘new oil’ when really it should be reframed as radioactive waste. What happened to using this term to hype up your brand: ‘We use Big Data to infer information about how to improve and go forward’? Was it just a hyped up buzzword?