Archives for August, 2012
by Svetlana Sicular | August 28, 2012 | Comments Off
“Imagine a revolution from 80-character punch cards to 140-character tweets,” — this Jack Santos punch line has been tweeted and re-tweeted on Day 1 of the Gartner Catalyst conference (#GartnerCat) last week. Coming back from Catalyst was like returning from a whitewater trip: the same sense of excitement and learning about yourself under extreme conditions. [...]
Category: Big Data Catalyst Catalyst-NA Crossing the Chasm data data paprazzi events geospatial Information Everywhere Local News market analysis skills Uncategorized Tags: big data, big data adoption, Catalyst, crossing the chasm, data, data paprazzi, data scientist, end users, experience, health, Information Everywhere, innovation, market analysis, phones, pseudo-tweets, Silicon Valley, statistics, Twitter
by Svetlana Sicular | August 11, 2012 | 2 Comments
Technology robs words of their intrinsic meaning: what happened to “like” and “friend”? Is it true that Facebook patented “face”? What is “oracle”? Who is Cassandra — a NoSQL database or a Trojan princess, who had a gift of prophecy and whom Apollo cursed never to be believed? At this week’s Cassandra Summit, I learned [...]
Category: analytics Big Data Cassandra Catalyst Catalyst-NA cloud data data paprazzi events fashion geospatial Information Everywhere innovation Inquire Within Local News market analysis noSQL open source skills Trojans Uncategorized Tags: analysis, analytics, AWS, big data, big data adoption, California, Catalyst, data, data janitor, data paprazzi, data spy, fashion, Haute Couture, innovation, market, open source, pseudo-tweets, search, Silicon Valley, SSD, vendors
