[leeber]

> Or did they just successfully string together the correct sequence of buzz words to unlock the grant money?

This, absolutely. Big data, data mining, and machine learning are really cool topics but the words became overused, overhyped, used out of context, especially by people who don't really understand what these are.

I have an old co-worker who spent a lot of time working with large excel spreadhseets, using some formulas, sorting it to look for things, etc.

He lists "data mining" on his linkedin, and has a ton of people who endorsed him for it.

This became a little off topic, but I hate how venture capital, grant funds, the media, and misinformed people completely butcher these topics.

[borplk]

"big data" .... because my Excel spreadsheets were like ... really big ... like you had to scroll down for 5 seconds big.