“In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”

Hypatia

On the 1st of July, I decided to set up a professional group on LinkedIn in order to create a hype free Agora for Big Data dialogue. I called the group The Big Data Contrarians and although it is a closed group, all those with interest in an open, informed and honest exchange of ideas on data, from whatever angle they are coming from, are very welcome to join in. (URL:  http://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8338976)

So, why is the group called The Big Data Contrarians and not something more generic, such as The Data Contrarians?