1. What is special about the Big Data vendor landscape? Who are the big players? 2. How do you think the Big Data vendor landscape will change in the near future? Why? 3. What is the role of visual...

1. What is special about the Big Data vendor landscape? Who are the big players?

2. How do you think the Big Data vendor landscape will change in the near future? Why?

3. What is the role of visual analytics in the world of Big Data?

4. What is a stream (in the Big Data world)?

5. What are the motivations for stream analytics?

6. What is stream analytics? How does it differ from regular analytics?

7. What is critical event processing? How does it relate to stream analytics?

8. Define data stream mining. What additional challenges are posed by data stream mining?