2. Introduction ‣ How We Arrived at NoSQL: A Crash Course ‣ Collecting Data (Scribe) ‣ Storing and Analyzing Data (Hadoop) ‣ Rapid Learning over Big Data (Pig) ‣ And More: Cassandra, HBase, FlockDB 3. My Background ‣ Studied Mathematics and Physics at Harvard, Physics at Stanford ‣ Tropos Networks (city-wide wireless): mesh routing algorithms, GBs of data ‣ Cooliris (web media): Hadoop and Pig for