See if you can interpolate the talk from the slides.
The background is: I was invited to speak in this seminar on “big data.” I said I didn’t know anything about big data, I worked on little data. They said that was ok. Actually it was probably a crowd-pleasing move to tell these people that little-data ideas remain relevant.
Sun Tzu said:
The control of a large force
is the same principle as the control of a few men:
it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.
Perhaps, if he were statistician, we could have said :
The analysis of a large data
is the same principle as the analyisis of a small data:
it is merely a question of dividing up hierarchically their variables .
Interesting in multiple ways.
1)PEAR:
2) In the 1990s, I did a lot of “big data” talks, but sadly, did not try to trademark the term.:-) See “Origins?” here.