Reed Elsevier’s Mark Rodgers relates MarkLogic handles 200,000 data sources

Volume, velocity and variety of weather had hit Chicago on Wednesday but the Blackhawks had won in triple overtime and the sky was blue for us when the Big Data Tour stopped at Spiaggia Restaurant downtown on Thursday morning. It was a terrific audience — and the first one I can say that had gender parity. It was great to see the ladies get in on the Big Data scene.

John Shap kicked off the event explaining the “art

Highlights from Big Data Nation Atlanta

 
Wow! What a panel. And what a crowd: just soaking up the knowledge from our esteemed big data experts. Chris Anderson is head of technology at Reed Elsevier — and is one of those individuals that believes that his job is more than just doing the HR-supplied description — but in being a thought leader as well.

“We had big problems to solve,” he said of his division Reed Construction Data. “We had data coming in from 120,000 sources [emphasis: mine]