Big Data in Practice

FINAL THOUGHTS

I feel extremely lucky and privileged to work in the field of Big Data, where I am able to help companies and government organizations across all sectors and industries find new and better ways to use data and analytics to deliver real value. My work allows me to learn about new and innovative ways companies apply Big Data.

With this book I wanted to provide a compressive overview of the current state of play in Big Data. However, in such a fast-moving environment, that is difficult. This last week I have worked with a credit card provider who is doing amazing things with big data, analysing millions of transactions in near real time. This would have made another great chapter for this book. Today, I have been in touch with two of the companies featured in this book that have implemented new initiatives and applied new technology to derive even better value from their big data. Next week, I am going to Spain to meet the analytics team at FC Barcelona to explore how Big Data and analytics are used in professional football.

This field is developing so fast that it is impossible to capture everything that is happening. I hope this book has given you a good overview of the things happening right now. It hopefully shows that Big Data is very real and companies are using it every day to improve what they do and how they do it.

The next few years will see companies who ignore Big Data be overtaken by those who don’t. I very much believe that any organization without ...