Entries Categorized as '“Data Scientist”'
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 4, 2013 | Comments Off
The most re-tweeted phrase at the SAS analyst conference (#sassb) today is “A data scientist is a business analyst that lives in California.” Every joke has a bit of truth behind it. Here is a paradox: some simple but essential things slip our attention. What is the last name of Queen Elizabeth II? When did [...]
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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My presentation on big data for the upcoming BI Summit in Barcelona is obsolete.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 | 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 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 [...]
Category: "Data Scientist" analytics Big Data Crossing the Chasm data data governance data paprazzi events fashion geospatial GraphConnect Information Everywhere innovation Inquire Within Local News noSQL open source Uncategorized Tags: big data, data, data science, databases, graph theory, inaguration, information, Neo4j, noSQL
by Svetlana Sicular | July 19, 2012 | 2 Comments
Big data haute couture roughly illustrates the state of the market. The question is: does a big data market exist? “Good morning I’m the global waiter at IT infrastructure solutions I was following up on your attendance at the hi dude summit that was held June 13 and fourteenth,” — I love my email for [...]
Category: "Data Scientist" Big Data big data market Catalyst Catalyst-NA Crossing the Chasm data data paprazzi events fashion Hadoop Information Everywhere innovation Local News market analysis skills Uncategorized Tags: big data, big data adoption, Catalyst, cloudera, crossing the chasm, data, end users, fashion, hadoop, Hadoop distribution, Hadoop Summit, Haute Couture, Hortonworks, Information Everywhere, market, market analysis, Silicon Valley, vendors
by Svetlana Sicular | June 29, 2012 | 7 Comments
Companies are desperately seeking mysterious creatures — data scientists. Some people claim to have seen them in LinkedIn and Target. Perhaps, those were encounters with data scientists from LinkedIn that shop at Target? Or Target data scientists who search on LinkedIn for pregnant teens? Either way, the companies are desperate (except for LinkedIn and Target). [...]
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