Earlier this month, SWAT was able to participate in a “State of Our Profession” discussion at the September TCQAA meeting. While the discussion focused on many great topics (highly recommend going out and downloading the presentation), we thought for this month’s blog we would review a few topics that resonated with us. Agile Still Dominates..

Big data is an all-encompassing term for any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process them using traditional data processing applications. Big data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, curate, manage, and process data within a tolerable elapsed..