The elephant in the room: getting value from Big Data

Julia Stoyanovich and Fabian Suchanek ACM Sigmod blog

Big Data, and its 4 Vs – volume, velocity, variety, and veracity – have been at the forefront of societal, scientific and engineering discourse. Arguably the most important 5th V, value, is not talked about as much. How can we make sure that our data is not just big, but also valuable? WebDB 2015, the premier workshop on Web and Databases, focuses on this important topic this year.

Interviews of Serge Abiteboul (INRIA Saclay & ENS Cachan), Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research) with Luna Dong (Google Inc.), and Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics).