In his opening remarks, Paul Walborsky, CEO at Gigaom, says "Big Data has legs — it's here to stay."  Derrick Harris says, "Every year I say I'm excited — this year I mean it." Actual applications!  [@BigDataWild likes that… 🙂 ]

Joe Weinman, emcee (shown), note that Structure Data is, ironically, actually more about *unstructured* data.

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