Why is everyone into big data? I like mostly all kind of technology (programming, Linux, security...) But I can't get myself to like big data /ML /AI. I get that it's usefulness is abundant, but how is it fascinating?

The dream is to save everything and then use some magic formula created by a computer to increase profit by $X per share.

@FrodoSwaggins hahahaha what the 😂

If you dislike math then probably it's not interesting

It's popular because it's solving problems that other approaches couldn't, and now we actually have the compute power to apply it.

As for you not finding not interesting, why don't you give it a go? The algorithms and math behind most of that stuff is pretty cool.

well, the math behind big data is mostly just a huge more-of-the-same

what may be fascinating are eventually the technological challenges enabled by modern processing power and network speeds.
handling data, moving it, sorting it, filtering it, fetch it, manipulate massive grids of systems seamlessy organised, deal with concurrency and "clusterisation"...this is a freaking challenge! god level optimisation of algorithms and other black magic

this is truly informatics to the bone: comparing stuff and deal with the emerging information

@beegC0de I detest math 😂