Kyle Erf's Ignite talk: "Why Data Has Always Been Big" (Velocity NY 2014)
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Channel: O'Reilly · 2014 · Science & Technology
Every day, an article is published explaining Big Data, our generation’s new struggle to manage more information than it can readily process. But did you know the Ancient Greeks struggled with the very same problem? This talk will present a very brief history of how and why the amount of available information has always outpaced our ability to fully comprehend it. Watch more from the 2014 Velocity New York Conference: http://goo.gl/kmrqJF Find out more about Velocity: http://velocityconf.com/ Don't miss an upload! Subscribe! http://goo.gl/szEauh Stay Connected to O'Reilly Media by Email - http://goo.gl/YZSWbO Follow O'Reilly Media: http://plus.google.com/+oreillymedia https://www.facebook.com/OReilly https://twitter.com/OReillyMedia
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