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added by Oleksi Jun 15 '12 at 2:14

Votes over 10 for a particular question don't help to create the community. Rather than vote again for a popular question, it's best to look at some of the questions with fewer than 10 votes and upvote them. Don't forget that you can also move your votes by clicking the up arrow on a question you've already voted for to remove your vote, then voting again on another question. – MCeley Jan 25 '13 at 13:29

14 people who like this question could move their votes to other questions with below 10 votes. Scores over 10 don't help. We only need 6 more example questions with a score of 10 to go to beta! – Duncan Feb 13 '13 at 0:19

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added by Oleksi Jun 13 '12 at 5:13

Too broad perhaps? – Tibor Aug 6 '12 at 13:42

I think a good version of this question would have to also include the uses cases in the actual question body. – Oleksi Aug 21 '12 at 17:08

9 people who like this question could move their votes to other questions with below 10 votes. – Duncan Feb 13 '13 at 0:20

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added by Joe Jun 28 '12 at 13:48

Isn't this a shopping question and therefore too subjective for the normal Stack Exchange Q&A structure? – RobM Dec 13 '12 at 19:29

@RobM : perhaps, but I've had quite a few long discussions in various places about how the only real difference between most questions in Stack Overflow and Server Fault is that being software, they can be tested and verified in short order. I'd say that this being one of the higher rated questions is a sign that we need a forum for asking this sort of question, even if it doesn't fit into the supposed rules for what makes a 'good' question. – Joe Dec 13 '12 at 19:36

9 people who like this question could move their votes to other questions with below 10 votes. Scores over 10 don't help. – Duncan Feb 13 '13 at 0:20

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added by Chris Travers Oct 6 '12 at 3:14

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added by Chris Gerken Aug 27 '12 at 18:16

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added by warren Sep 5 '12 at 19:04

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added by Oleksi Jun 15 '12 at 2:18

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added by qegal Jul 31 '12 at 4:24

This question fits programmers.SE. – reprogrammer Dec 6 '12 at 22:55

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added by warren Aug 14 '12 at 16:59

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added by gpuguy Aug 21 '12 at 14:51

This question fits programmers.SE. – reprogrammer Dec 6 '12 at 22:55

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added by Eliran Malka Aug 22 '12 at 22:00

	Is this a data migration question? – Chris Gerken Aug 27 '12 at 18:17
	@ChrisGerken - yes. is there a data migration site on launch? – Eliran Malka Aug 28 '12 at 8:04

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added by Chris Gerken Aug 27 '12 at 18:13

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added by warren Sep 5 '12 at 19:04

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added by snihalani Sep 8 '12 at 18:50

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added by woliveirajr Nov 21 '12 at 19:02

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added by gerrit Dec 11 '12 at 21:01

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added by gerrit Dec 11 '12 at 21:03

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added by gerrit Dec 11 '12 at 21:04

Why the downvotes? – gerrit Jan 13 '13 at 11:24

Because BigData is not about copying big data files between computers, but about making a huge data set available to users and analysts and connecting it to get more and better information. The downvoters probably thought your problem is too simple and basic for a BigData site. – Chris Jan 22 '13 at 14:46

If colleagues in Japan have a huge dataset and I'm Europe and want to use it, doesn't that fit with making a huge data set available to users? Then the question "how to transfer" is very relevant in practice. – gerrit Jan 22 '13 at 21:52

I've run out of upvotes, but I'd like to see this question on the site. We need to provide good definitive answers to questions that some experts see as simple and basic, as well as the ones they see as complex and hard. – EnergyNumbers Jan 23 '13 at 21:37

Indeed, the dataset I had in mind is exactly the output of a climate model. Not in any nice database, but simply a large number of multi-terabyte files, physically at the other end of the world. To me big data means a lot of data an any format. I hope analysing data stored in terabyte-sized files would be on-topic on Big Data, or I don't really understand the scope... – gerrit Jan 29 '13 at 11:49

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added by gerrit Dec 11 '12 at 21:05

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added by woliveirajr Dec 13 '12 at 16:13

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added by Duncan Jan 14 '13 at 12:03

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added by Duncan, edited by jonsca Jan 24 '13 at 4:36

This question may also work in some form on the Healthcare Stack Exchange – Oleksi Jan 23 '13 at 21:19

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added by Duncan Jan 14 '13 at 12:09

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added by zkan Jan 17 '13 at 1:56

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added by EnergyNumbers Jan 17 '13 at 17:21

This has nothing to do with big data. It is simply a question on UK law. – Ladadadada Feb 3 '13 at 11:07

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added by EnergyNumbers Jan 17 '13 at 17:22

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added by EnergyNumbers Jan 17 '13 at 17:44

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added by JoshDM Jan 23 '13 at 17:18

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added by neo Jan 24 '13 at 17:05

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added by neo Feb 1 '13 at 8:46

timegilder is free and open source tools from mit – jozi Feb 11 '13 at 4:26

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added by Felix GV Feb 4 '13 at 23:54

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added by warren Feb 7 '13 at 16:59

I think there's potentially a good question in here, but I'm not sure that this is it yet. How about something along the lines of "how important is feature X when selecting a platform for processing Big Data?" – EnergyNumbers Feb 9 '13 at 8:35

@EnergyNumbers - please feel free to reword to improve :) – warren Feb 9 '13 at 12:36

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added by Duncan Feb 13 '13 at 3:32

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added by boulder_ruby May 23 '12 at 16:31

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added by Oleksi Jun 15 '12 at 2:17

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added by gpuguy Aug 21 '12 at 14:55

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added by kamaci Dec 3 '12 at 19:21

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added by Duncan Jan 14 '13 at 12:11

	I think you accidentally this whole sentence. Care to rephrase more clearly? – Felix GV Feb 8 '13 at 17:44
	I believe the question is meant to be - "What recursion issues are there in securing* big data?* – elssar Feb 11 '13 at 6:09
	You only get enough characters for the title so I couldn't put all the detail that goes in the body of the question. I say recursion because security of big data creates big data of it's own. Many of the largest data stores where I work are the security data itself. – Duncan Feb 11 '13 at 12:06

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added by EnergyNumbers Jan 17 '13 at 17:23

This has nothing to do with big data. It is simply a question on UK law. – Ladadadada Feb 3 '13 at 11:01

Big Data actually has a LOT of ethical and juridical implications. Just like GPL can put an end to an otherwise technically sound project, laws and regulations can affect Big Data projects. I don't see a problem with having non-technical questions if the scope of this Q&A site is Big Data in general. There are plenty of GPL-related questions on SO: google.ca/… – Felix GV Feb 8 '13 at 17:42