Slidecast on Big Data Analytics

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At International Conference on Cloud & Big Data Analytics (ICCBDA 2013) - David Dietrich Advisory Technical Education Consultant, Big Data & Data Science, EMC Corporation - delivered the pre-conference talk on Big Data Analytics. Here is the Slidecast for you - 


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