Small Data careers

Big Data is daunting, confusing, and grammatically incorrect. The ability to piece together useful information out of small sets of data can be far more interesting when looking for answers to difficult questions on the internets.

Example: If I were looking for my keys, I would not use Hadoop to parse over every detail of my life including the time I had an accident at summer camp in an effort to find my keys. I want an simplistic system to present me the two most logical places to look: on the coffee table or in my jacket.

Small Data is about developing a new algorithm that will be the simplistic and precise action that finds your keys.

Big Data = cat *.* | grep .*
Small Data = echo keys