Presented by Stephen O'Grady, Redmonk at Lucene Revolution 2011

The last twenty four months have seen a veritable explosion in discussion around what is commonly refererred to as Big Data and the infrastructure technology employed to manage it. The wealth of available open source software means that businesses from any industry have easily accessible tools with which to tackle projects that would have been out of their reach just a few years prior. Less heralded, however, has been the fact that making data actually useful - whatever its size - remains a challenge. In this session we'll explore the role of search in putting data - big and small - to work answering the important questions for businesses and society by reducing the friction between question and answer.

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