Entries Categorized as 'data'
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 | 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 [...]
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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 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 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 [...]
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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 | September 7, 2012 | Comments Off
I cover big data and data governance. Both are equally challenging and both promise to save the world. Until recently, I had a false idea, that one of these topics is mainstream and another one is on sidelines for everyone other than me and a dozen people like Andrew White or Joe Bugajski. The latter is [...]
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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. [...]
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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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