Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jeff Hammerbacher

Hammerbacher presents his work at EmTech 2011: Managing huge data sets

Company: Cloudera

In 2006, as Facebook was starting to accumulate information about its users faster than the data could be analyzed and stored, Jeff Hammerbacher was brought in to deal with the problem. A former Wall Street number cruncher, he soon developed techniques for handling and mining unprecedented amounts of data.

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