a16z Podcast: Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

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🗓️ 1 May 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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"Machine learning is to big data as human learning is to life experience," says Christopher Nguyen, the co-founder and CEO of big data intelligence company Adatao. Sure, but then, what IS big data? (especially as it's become a buzzword that captures ...

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0:18.8	Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast.
0:21.7	This is Sonal, and I'm here today with Christopher Nguyen from Adaitau, which is a big data
0:25.8	company, and its mission is to democratize data intelligence and help people collaborate
0:30.2	across the enterprise.
0:31.4	And the best way to describe him is as an entrepreneurial scientist.
0:34.6	He got his PhD from Stanford in Device Physics.
0:37.3	He's a former Google
0:37.9	executive. And as a professor, he started the computer engineering program at the Hong Kong
0:42.4	University of Science and Technology. He's basically an entrepreneurial scientist who's
0:46.2	merged the world of academia and doing a lot of startups. So welcome, Christopher.
0:51.1	Oh, thank you, so no. So actually, Christopher, the way we want to just kick this off is I actually just want to talk to you starting with big data.
0:57.1	I mean, that's a term that people throw around all the time.
0:59.6	It's completely overloaded.
1:01.4	It's buzzword.
1:02.5	It means so many things to so many different people.
1:05.0	Could you start by just sort of telling me what your definition and take on big data is?
1:10.5	There are two ways you can think of the term big data.
1:12.8	There is what I think most of the world thinks about when people talk about big data.
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