big-data-organization.md

How teams are organized around big data activities in the corporate world

Three groups

1. Metadata group

   • Abstract thinkers
   • Deal with categorizing and normalizing data and datasets
   • Partnerships around real world problems

2. Interface group

   • Engineering people, focused on standards
   • Gaining access to the information
   • Data is ready to be coupled with other datasets to be used in potentially answering a question

3. Question-former group

   • PhD and/or marketing people
   • Asking the meaningful questions
   • Not data-driven ... just trying to imagine the most important questions

Each team could be tens or hundreds of people.

Data analysts work across groups to answer questions