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Discussion on: What was the most over-hyped software movement?

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Sinuhe Jaime Valencia • Edited

Two that people still use to sell projects but aren't as shinny as the hype made them look:

  • Big Data
  • Agile

Without starting a rant —there's a lot of articles taking both sides— over agile, is one really over-turbo-hyped things.

And the case for big Data is that everyone started saying "we have a big data solution" and eventually all the big data solutions turned out to be simply dashboards reading simple databases, most of them with simple query generators

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Lorraine Lee

What is the difference between "big data" and "data mining"? Or is it just the same thing rebranded?

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DrBearhands

Big data is about handling lots of data, it's about volume. Data mining is about finding data, it's about source.