Grandma’s Guide to Data Preparation
“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” We’ve all heard a variant of this quote, often credited to Albert Einstein. In technology circles, it implies the difficulty of explaining cutting edge advances to the layperson. This is the first of a series of posts in which I will try to explain concepts in Big Data as I understand them and as if I were at a dinner table explaining my understanding to my Grandmother.