Opening remarks from Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes on day one of Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015 in Austin, Texas.

2. WILL HAYES
CEO, Lucidworks
@IAmWillHayes

4. Welcome to Revolution
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26 countries
180 companies
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8. Agenda

9. Stump the Chump / Party

10. Our Reality

11. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
We are at or near "peak hype" as it
relates to Big Data.
News headlines for term: "big data"

12. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
An entire job category has
been created.
News headlines for term: "data scientist"

13. Feb '09 Mar '09 Apr '09 May '09 Jun '09 Jul '09 Aug '09 Sep '09 Oct '09 Nov '09 Dec '09 Jan '10
We’ve seen similar
trends like this before...
News headlines for term: "snuggie"

14. Gartner Hype Cycle

15. Why?
If ever there was a technology that could have avoided the
hype cycle, then it should have been big data.

16. Data as a
vicious cycle:
More Data
Increased IT
Spend
Next Big
Technology

17. Big Data Infrastructure Big Data Applications

18. Big Data Infrastructure Big Data Applications

19. Data as a
virtuous cycle:
Content
(Data)
Crowd
(User Action)
Context
Measure
Results

20. Lucene/Solr

21. Will Hayes
@iamwillhayes