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# Big Data: Funeral or Renaissance?

2023/04/20Featuring: [Jordan Tigani](/authors/jordan-tigani/)
, [Aditya Parameswaran](/authors/aditya-parameswaran/)
, [Aaron Elmore](/authors/aaron-elmore/)

Jordan Tigani of MotherDuck and Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder debate whether Big Data is Dead or not, inspired by Jordan’s blog post.

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