Entries Categorized as 'innovation'
by Svetlana Sicular | June 11, 2013 | Submit a Comment
The main obstacle to big data adoption is not technology but understanding how to seize opportunities from big data. There is a lot to a movie other than the movie itself: cut episodes, its creators, stories around the film and many more. Here are the “cut episodes” from my recent research on big data opportunities. [...]
Category: Big Data big data market Cassandra Catalyst Catalyst-NA data data revolution events Hadoop Humans Information Everywhere innovation Local News noSQL open source Uncategorized Tags: big data adoption, Catalyst, data paprazzi, Information Everywhere, open source, Silicon Valley
by Svetlana Sicular | May 27, 2013 | Comments Off
People starting a big data initiative feel like adventurers entering Terra Incognita. The mere fact of breaking into the big data space is often enough for them to lose ground because everything seems new and mysterious. To a certain extent, it is true. But just to an extent. The spirit of big data adventure distracts [...]
Category: Big Data Catalyst Catalyst-NA data paprazzi data revolution geospatial Information Everywhere innovation Uncategorized Tags: big data, Catalyst, data paprazzi, data scientist, data spy, Information Everywhere, innovation
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 | 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My presentation on big data for the upcoming BI Summit in Barcelona is obsolete.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 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
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 | 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 [...]
Category: Big Data Catalyst Catalyst-NA data data governance data paprazzi EIM events geospatial Hadoop Information Everywhere innovation Inquire Within Local News market analysis Uncategorized Tags: big data, big data adoption, Catalyst, data, data governance, data paprazzi, Information Everywhere, market analysis, pseudo-tweets
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 [...]
Category: analytics Big Data Cassandra Catalyst Catalyst-NA cloud data data paprazzi events fashion geospatial Information Everywhere innovation Inquire Within Local News market analysis noSQL open source skills Trojans Uncategorized Tags: analysis, analytics, AWS, big data, big data adoption, California, Catalyst, data, data janitor, data paprazzi, data spy, fashion, Haute Couture, innovation, market, open source, pseudo-tweets, search, Silicon Valley, SSD, vendors
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
