Bradford Cross: Big Data Is Less About Size, And More About Freedom

I have used FlightCaster many times and everytime my flight has been delayed, FlightCaster has shown it as on time. I'm wondering if and when it actually <i>works</i>.<p>Has anyone had a successful delay status notification from FlightCaster?

Great article - this is why I read HN.<p>I think that Bradford Cross is right on: as more data becomes available, the challenge is not building 'cookie cutter' applications, but rather using some combination of ML, text mining, statistics, etc. to create new ideas and systems.

I am interested to read more about how people put together the pieces, such as hadoop, hive, pig, and rabbitmq.

May be stating the obvious here, but why is a probabilistic prediction model primarily aimed at consumers? Wouldn't it make more sense to apply to users for whom probability is useful e.g., truck fleets to predict delays? oil fields to show likely drill spots? etc.

Great article. There's much more to be said about "Freedom". So many corporations have access to massive amounts of data and it will soon be easier to regulate access; whether by control of it's owner, or not.