by Svetlana Sicular | March 27, 2013 | 1 Comment
I always thought that if all the efforts, energy and money, spent on technology, were invested in studying humans, we would have been equally advanced through mastering our own capabilities. I realized just recently that maybe harnessing the incredible human potential is not a direct process, and technology is only a step of the journey [...]
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by Svetlana Sicular | March 1, 2013 | Comments Off
I have a multiple choice question: What kind of data revolution are we in? Industrial Proletarian Social All of the above The industrial revolution of 18-19th century transitioned the world from hand production methods to machines. The ability to affordably analyze data is similar: first-generation Internet companies, Amazons and Googles, publically performed data alchemy – [...]
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by Svetlana Sicular | January 31, 2013 | 2 Comments
Big data is moving from closets full of hidden Hadoop clusters into corner offices, where CEOs and boards of directors issue orders to deliver “big data strategy,” whatever it means. This is called “Activity beyond early adopters” in Gartner’s Hype Cycle. Once in awhile, I get requests to help explain big data, so it would [...]
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by Svetlana Sicular | January 22, 2013 | 36 Comments
My presentation on big data for the upcoming BI Summit in Barcelona is obsolete. In this presentation, I use the Gartner Hype Cycle curve to show that big data is at the peak of inflated expectations. And, as it happens with quickly developing technologies, I am already behind and big data goes ahead. Last several [...]
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by Svetlana Sicular | January 15, 2013 | Comments Off
A list of my top five Gartner favorites could be top 25 but I decided to make it short (Gartner’s New Year resolution is to write shorter documents and fewer too). In the past year, prefix “un-“ was quite popular: un-learn, un-conference, un-remarkable. My un-analysis compares apples to oranges, and I love all five of [...]
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by Svetlana Sicular | December 18, 2012 | Comments Off
“Data scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century” (Harvard Business Review) “Cybernetics is a whore of imperialism” (Stalin, 20th century) I cannot quite catch an association between these two sentences. Maybe it’s in the transitions: from a whore — to the sexiest job, from East — to West, from socialism — to capitalism, from [...]
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by Svetlana Sicular | November 8, 2012 | Comments Off
A graph states that something is related to something else: people to people, molecules to molecules, habits to habits. Graph traversals are about paths: of ideas, time or viruses. Russian for “graph” is “граф,” which also means “earl.” In my adolescence, I thought that graph theory is about nobility, and despite my math education, a [...]
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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 [...]
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