Before revision: I investigate Big Data, the phenomenon, the term, and the discipline, with emphasis on origins of the term , in industry and academics, in computer science and statistics/econometrics.
After revision: I investigate Big Data, the phenomenon, the term, and the discipline, with emphasis on origins of the term , in industry and academics, in computer science and econometrics. The term probably originated in lunch-table conversations at Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) in the mid 1990s, in which John Mashey figured prominently. The first significant academic references are arguably Weiss and Indurkhya (1998) in computer science and Diebold (2000) in econometrics. An unpublished 2001 research note by Douglas Laney at Gartner enriched the concept significantly.