Arup Nanda on the topic of Big Data

In his article on Big Data, Arup starts by showing us how recent events can spark thoughts of a professional nature and gets our minds on a completely different track than most people when discussions start happening about something "big". Speaking of big, I learned what the "Three V's of Big Data" are in this introduction to Big Data and it's associated concepts like key-value pair, NoSQL (and why that's not really the best term for it), Map/Reduce, Hadoop, and HiveQL.  Fantastic read, and it really did demystify a lot of what I didn't know about Big Data!