How Big Data Fails
How small errors and quick fixes in “little data” can lead to major problems in big data
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9 min readJan 22, 2020
In the mid-1990s, a new employee of Sun Microsystems in California kept disappearing from their database. Every time his details were entered, the system seemed to eat him whole; he would disappear without a trace. No one in HR could work out why poor Steve Null was database…
