Talk on using search with big data analytics
A few weeks back I was at the Basis Technology Government Users Conference in Washington, DC. It was an interesting experience, meeting people from agencies responsible for processing lots of important data. One thing I noticed is that in the Bay area, your name tag at an event tries to convey that you’re working on super-cool stuff. Here in DC, it’s more cool to be classified. For example, name tags that say “USG” – a generic term for “US Government”, and a common code term for “That’s Classified”.
My talk was about how search (at scale) is becoming a critical component of big data analytics. Without the ability to poke at the raw data, it’s very hard to validate and understand the high level results of processing lots and lots of bits down to a few graphs and tables.
Basis has published the slides here, for your reading pleasure.