{"id":6820,"date":"2015-11-19T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2015-11-30T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T21:13:43","slug":"the-devils-data-dictionary-making-fun-of-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-devils-data-dictionary-making-fun-of-big-data\/6820\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil&#8217;s Data Dictionary &#8211; Making Fun of Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"Buy it on Amazon When St\u00e9phane Hamel coined the description of Big Data as &#8216;That which doesn&#8217;t fit in an Excel spreadsheet&#8217;, I realized it was well past time for the datarati to have some fun poked at us. There is no better example for what I had in mind than Ambrose Bierce&#8217;s Devil&#8217;s Dictionary (1906); an absolute gem that includes such treats as these: Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. Self-evident, adj. Evident to one&#8217;s self <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-devils-data-dictionary-making-fun-of-big-data\/6820\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy it on Amazon When St\u00e9phane Hamel coined the description of Big Data as &#8216;That which doesn&#8217;t fit in an Excel spreadsheet&#8217;, I realized it was well past time for the datarati to have some fun poked at us. There is no better example for what I had in mind than Ambrose Bierce&#8217;s Devil&#8217;s Dictionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,569],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading-stories","tag-big-data","tag-jim-sterne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}