When data is neither big nor small, what is it?
This blog post was written using the Recorder app on a Google Pixel 3a phone. It transcribes speech so there may be a few small errors but I've corrected what I could see. Enjoy! I wanted to talk about concept for a while now that tries to align big data with what people are really doing in the real world which is often called small data, which is defined as the amount of data that's small enough for human comprehension. Now, obviously lots of organizations have been talking about big data for a long time and there are lots and lots of services to help with that and then this this small data concept has been around for a little while trying to kind of tackle what people can actually manage. But what the problem is that we need something in the middle and lots of organizations can do big data some still do small data, but there are a huge bunch of organizations in the middle that can't do big data. And is big data the right concept for them? It's used to des