Entries Categorized as 'Big Data'
by Svetlana Sicular | April 2, 2013 | Comments Off
This is my article, published in Forbes last week. Volume, velocity and variety characteristics of information assets are not three parts of Gartner’s definition of big data, it is part one, and oftentimes, misunderstood. Most people only retain about one-third of what they read — that explains the truncation. However, to get to the essence [...]
Category: "Data Scientist" Big Data data revolution innovation Trough of Disillusionment Uncategorized Tags: big data, Gartner predicts, Information Everywhere, innovation
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 [...]
Category: analytics Big Data data revolution Inquire Within life-logging Tags: analytics, Gartner predicts
by Svetlana Sicular | March 11, 2013 | 1 Comment
From my esteemed colleague Mark Beyer, the co-lead for Gartner big data research. The intent of Gartner’s advice is to restore order while we provide guidance to a panicking throng scrambling to buy limited edition big data toys. Gartner has advised caution to the market. But, panic in the streets and chaos often drowns out [...]
Category: Big Data big data market Crossing the Chasm Gartner hype cycle Trough of Disillusionment Tags: big data, big data adoption, data paprazzi, Gartner predicts, hype, Information Everywhere, innovation, Trough of Disillusionment
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 – [...]
Category: analytics Big Data data data governance data paprazzi data revolution Information Everywhere market analysis open source Uncategorized Tags: big data, data paprazzi, hadoop, Information Everywhere, Silicon Valley
by Svetlana Sicular | February 12, 2013 | 1 Comment
Like Lilliputians from Gulliver’s Travels, divided over which end of a boiled egg to crack, modern technologists are debating whether big data is a revolution or an evolution. Roughly 60% of the delegates at the last week’s Gartner BI Summit in Europe voted on evolution. It looks more like an evolution to these BI and [...]
Category: "Data Scientist" Big Data cloud data data paprazzi data revolution EIM Information Everywhere Inquire Within market analysis Uncategorized Tags: data revolution
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 [...]
Category: "Data Scientist" analytics Big Data Crossing the Chasm data data paprazzi market analysis Uncategorized Tags: analytics, big data, big data adoption, data paprazzi, Information Everywhere, vendors
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 [...]
Category: "Data Scientist" analytics Big Data big data market Crossing the Chasm data paprazzi EIM events Hadoop Information Everywhere innovation Local News Uncategorized Tags: BI Summit, big data, big data adoption, data paprazzi, data scientist, data spy, end users, hadoop, Hadoop distribution, Information Everywhere, innovation, Silicon Valley, vendors
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 [...]
Category: analytics Big Data data data governance data paprazzi Uncategorized Tags: Gartner, Top five
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 [...]
Category: "Data Scientist" analytics Big Data data Information Everywhere innovation Inquire Within Mathematics skills Uncategorized Tags: analysis, analytics, big data, data, data paprazzi, data scientist, hiring, Information Everywhere, innovation, math, pseudo-tweets, scientists
by Svetlana Sicular | November 26, 2012 | Comments Off
Database benchmarks early this millennium were secretly prophetic. Everybody who could read beyond a first paragraph of any benchmark’s write-up was chuckling : “They ran it in memory,” as if database vendors were cheating. And maybe, they were. All of them. So when everybody is cheating – it is not cheating, it is a game [...]
Category: Big Data data data paprazzi In memory innovation Inquire Within life-logging noSQL Uncategorized Tags: big data, data paprazzi, Information Everywhere, pseudo-tweets, search
