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Wal-Mart's Data Obsession

Posted by timothy on from the what-do-you-want-today dept.

g8oz writes "The New York Times covers Wal-Mart's obsession with collecting sales data. Fun fact: 'Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, at its Bentonville headquarters. To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts.' That much information results in some interesting data-mining. Did you know hurricanes increase strawberry Pop Tarts sales 7-fold?"

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  1. Re:"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by b17bmbr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Think of the processing power needed to make sense out of it all.

    nothing a beowulf cluster of linux xboxes couldn't handle!!

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