What is Big Data?
What is Big Data? (by SAS)
What is Big Data? (by Forbes)
The Big Data Conundrum: How to Define It? (MIT Tech review)
Big Data 101 (by Intel)
News stories about Big Data and Data Science
The New York Times Compendium: Big Data (2012) (more items about big data on NY Times)
The Age of Big Data, By Steve Lohr, (NY Times February 11, 2012)
Tell me, professor, what is big data? By Mark Whitehorn, (The Register 12th August 2013)
Business
Academics
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (UC Berkeley)
Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering (Columbia University)
Data Science Initiative at NYU
U.Va. Appoints Engineering Professor Don Brown to Lead New Big Data Institute