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 | 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 | 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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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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