What's After Big Data? 87
gthuang88 writes: As the marketing hype around "big data" subsides, a recent wave of startups is solving a new class of data-related problems and showing where the field is headed. Niche analytics companies like RStudio, Vast, and FarmLink are trying to provide insights for specific industries such as finance, real estate, and agriculture. Data-wrangling software from startups like Tamr and Trifacta is targeting enterprises looking to find and prep corporate data. And heavily funded startups such as Actifio and DataGravity are trying to make data-storage systems smarter. Together, these efforts highlight where emerging data technologies might actually be used in the business world.
Common sense (Score:4, Interesting)
After big data they will hire people to think and actually produce useful/actionable insights.
After that they will hire thinking machines.
After that .. with the last vestiges of humanity in zoo's for the amusement of machines .. it's anyone's guess.
What's after? (Score:3, Interesting)