Forty Two Zettabytes

42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the Universe, and Everything. Unfortunately no one knows the question. Zettabyte is a reference to the huge volume of data that is available on the internet. 

Forty Two Zettabytes is a group of nerdy data enthusiasts enrolled in MIS 586 at Eller College of Management. The crew members are an eclectic mix of six individuals looking for important questions to answer.

Introducing the crew

The crew comprises of Akash, Amogh, Elton, Pradeep, Shajay and Sukhada. There is a respectable blend of technical and non-technical expertise including business acumen, creativity, critical thinking to complement the core technical skills in software development, data integration, data visualization and advanced analytics.  They believe that this composition will help them accomplish their ultimate goal of formulating the ultimate question.  

Big Data - Team’s Perspective

To Forty Two Zettabytes, Big Data has a rather simple meaning on Earth. They do not believe that the size of data is overly significant. Mere Earthlings think that bigger data is better and more useful, but then they still think digital watches are a cool idea, so what do they know? Sure, the more the better, but insights can be extracted from a data set regardless of its size. In fact, ‘bigger’ data is often noisier and may contain an invisible skew. Having said that, it must be noted that with the advent of social media like Twitter (a phase that characterizes the ‘Medieval Ages’ of this planet), we are inevitably dealing with big and potentially noisy data. Therefore, a larger portion of time and effort must be devoted to extracting as clean a data set as possible. This is what Forty Two Zettabytes will attempt to accomplish, and stay true to the golden words - ‘Don’t Panic’.

Where the team expects to be at the end of this class? 

The data explosion has led to the birth of so called "Big Data". It's an unknown mystery for the team and the team hopes that by the end of this course the mystery will divulge itself. They measure it in terms of 3 V’s , volume, variety and velocity. The team expects to touch each of these aspects during the project work. The team is excited to learn new techniques to excavate, synthesize and envision the "Big Data". Skiing together, the team is confident to conquer this uphill battle.

Stay tuned for more updates!