“Today we are talking to the guys that are architecting the next generation,” says Wikibon founder and theCUBE co-host Dave Vellante in a live broadcast for SiliconANGLE Media.

Back for day two of the HP Big Data Conference 2015, theCUBE’s John Furrier and Vellante look forward to “a big day in Boston,” as well as review keynote speeches from Facebook’s Director of Analytics Ken Rudin, and famed statistician and founder of FiveThirtyEight.com Nate Silver.

“Truly Facebook [Inc.] uses analytics to competitive advantage,” says Vellante, who encapsulates Rudin’s theme of his keynote as “more data doesn’t mean better answers.”

Silver’s main point was, “You need to think in terms of probability.” Applying probability statistics to the upcoming presidential election, he sees the probability of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump actually winning the nominations as low, but gives a high probability that he will syphon votes from the Republican candidate if he runs as an independent candidate.

Vellante takes issue with Rudin’s assertion that Hadoop does not equal Big Data, saying that Hadoop may not be Big Data, but Hadoop changed the way we think about data. Furrier agrees that he is “still bullish on Hadoop.” Both presenters believe that Hadoop is not going away, and that Spark and Hadoop are not mutually exclusive.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the HP Big Data Conference 2015.

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