Introduction

Now in its fifth year, the Strata + Hadoop World conference has grown substantially from its early days. It’s expanded to cover not only how we handle the flood of data our modern lives create, but also how that data is collected, governed, and acted upon.

Strata now deals with sensors that gather, clean, and aggregate information in real time, as well as machine learning and specialized data tools that make sense of such data. And it tackles the issue of interfaces by which that sense is conveyed, whether they’re informing a human or directing a machine.

In this ebook, Strata + Hadoop World co-chair Alistair Croll discusses the emerging trends and technologies that will transform the data landscape in the months to come. These ideas relate to our investigation into the forces shaping the big data space, from cognitive augmentation to artificial intelligence.