Summary: Edd Dumbill is VP Strategy at Silicon Valley Data Science and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Big Data. He’s also an entrepreneur, author, software developer, and chair of Strata conference. formerly was principal analyst at O’Reilly Radar. In a recent article titled “Big Data is Rocket Fuel,” Edd made the case that big data stands on 3 legs: Open source software Commodity computing hardware The data itself In this podcast, he explains that stance and explains what organizations need to do to launch the rocket.
