From Privacy to Cake Pops: 5 Deep Insights on Big Data

OK, everyone gets it — Hadoop is great and companies need to start analyzing all their data lest they risk losing their competitive edge. Gotcha. But there’s a heck of a lot more to think about when it comes to big data, ranging from where companies will actually find workers to how they’ll deal with an impending policy showdown over privacy.

Last week, I had a chance to stop by the Churchill Club’s “The Big Data Effect” event, the highlight of which was a panel discussion (watchable here) featuring SAS SVP and CTO Keith Collins; Factual Founder and CEO Gil Elbaz (who also founded Applied Semantics); venture capitalist Ping Li of Accel Partners; EMC Greenplum Co-Founder and CTO Luke Lonergan; and @WalmartLabs leader and SVP of Walmart global e-commerce Anand Rajaraman (who also co-founded Junglee and Kosmix). They offered some great insights into where big data is headed and how organizations might best plan to capitalize on it...