BIG DATA QUARTERLY
Volume 1 number 1
Spring 2015
CONTENTS
EDITOR'S NOTE | Joyce Wells
2 Making Big Data Matter
3 BIG DATA BRIEFING
Key news on big data product launches, partnerships, and acquisitions
4 INSIGHTS | The Internet of Things Heralds a New Kind of Spatial Database | J. Andrew Rogers
8 THE VOICE OF BIG DATA
Interview with Chris Twogood, Teradata
10 COVER STORY | John O’Brien
Mapping the Path to the Data Lake
24 BIG DATA BY THE NUMBERS
Uncovering the Value of Big Data
26 BIG DATA BASICS | Lindy Ryan
The Role of Friction in Data Discovery
27 CLOUD CURRENTS
Classic DBAs Evolve to Cloud DBAs | Michael Corey & Don Sullivan
29 HADOOP PLAYBOOK | Jim Scott
The Importance of Apache Drill to the Big Data Ecosystem
30 THE IOT INSIDER | Stuart Taylor
The Five ‘Things’ of the Internet of Things
31 GOVERNING GUIDELINES | Scott Zoldi
Best Practices in Data Governance
32 DATA SCIENCE DEEP DIVE | Bart Baesens
The Role of Simplicity in Analytics