Readers of these pages will know that Compliance Week closely follows the idea of Big Data. (Don’t miss our virtual conference on ethics and compliance risks in Big Data, happening Wednesday, March 27.) Yes, software vendors and consultants have spun up quite a bit of hype around the subject, but nevertheless, Big Data today is what the Internet was in 1995—a huge and powerful thing, vaguely understood by everyone to be the future of business, even if we had no precise ideas of exactly how it would change our business.
