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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

How companies can use ideas from mass production to create business with data. That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

We’ve seen similar high marshalling overheads in big data systems too.) Fetching too much data in a single query (i.e., If you decompose data across multiple keys to avoid this, you then typically run into cross-key atomicity issues. getting the whole value when you supply the key). Who knew! ;). From RInK to LInK.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. Prairie, 2003. PZ07] Content-based Recommendation Systems, M. Pazzani, D.

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