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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 – [...]
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 | 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 | 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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