Search for Big Data: Cloudera and Lucene get hitched
Instead of a data scientist, what if you only needed your GoogleBing-fu to analyze data in Hadoop? That may be a stretch, but it's exactly what Cloudera is working toward.
Veteran data geek Andrew Brust covers Big Data technologies including Hadoop, NoSQL, Data Warehousing, BI and Predictive Analytics.
Andrew J. Brust has worked in the software industry for 25 years as a developer, consultant, entrepreneur and CTO, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence technology.
Instead of a data scientist, what if you only needed your GoogleBing-fu to analyze data in Hadoop? That may be a stretch, but it's exactly what Cloudera is working toward.
In last week's ZDNet "Great Debate," Robin Harris and I faced off on the question of whether "we need data scientists to make sense of this tidal wave of information." I think data scientists are important, but they're not the solution. What follows is my argument, in essay form.
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