Is Big Data being over-hyped? "I certainly hope not" was Ping Li's heartfelt response to moderator Michael Chui's question to the panel (bios below). Li's firm, Accel Partners, made a splash in the news recently by announcing the creation of a 100 million dollar fund for investments in Big Data. The Churchill Club panel members each gave their own interpretations of the Big Data Effect. They emphasized that Big Data was not just about the volume of data, but how it could be researched, extracted, and analyzed.
