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 | 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 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My presentation on big data for the upcoming BI Summit in Barcelona is obsolete.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 | 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 | 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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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 [...]
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