#Bits » Handicapping the Half-Life of ‘Big Data’ Comments Feed Ways to Bits | Handicapping the Half-Life of ‘Big Data’ Big Data 2013 Handicapping the Half-Life of ‘Big Data’ The technologies that now fly under the banner of Big Data are But what about the term Big Data itself? What is its likely life span? Big Data 2013 A special section on the business and culture of big data. use Big Data in its current meaning, it seems, was John Mashey, chief not a certainty — appropriately enough, since Big Data is all about As to its longevity, Big Data, I’m betting, will cycle out of general My bet against Big Data, I suppose, boils down to a linguistic bias. It A similar pattern seems likely for the technologies of Big Data. There may be up and down cycles, the term Big Data may fall from favor, but of Big Data, which is to find useful insights in an ever-growing Big Data 2013, Internet, Artificial Intelligence, BigData2013, A special section on the business and culture of big data.