What’s the BIG Deal? DATA On the Origin of the Term

NY Times BITS (Steve Lohr) today: An interesting “detective story” seeking the coiner of the phrase “Big Data”.

The unruly digital data of the Web is a big ingredient in what is now being called “Big Data.” And as it turns out, the term Big Data seems to be most accurately traced not to references in news or journal archives, but to digital artifacts now posted on technical Web sites, appropriately enough.