Entries Tagged as '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 | March 11, 2013 | 1 Comment
From my esteemed colleague Mark Beyer, the co-lead for Gartner big data research. The intent of Gartner’s advice is to restore order while we provide guidance to a panicking throng scrambling to buy limited edition big data toys. Gartner has advised caution to the market. But, panic in the streets and chaos often drowns out [...]
Category: Big Data big data market Crossing the Chasm Gartner hype cycle Trough of Disillusionment Tags: big data, big data adoption, data paprazzi, Gartner predicts, hype, Information Everywhere, innovation, Trough of Disillusionment
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My presentation on big data for the upcoming BI Summit in Barcelona is obsolete.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 | 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. [...]
Category: Big Data Catalyst Catalyst-NA Crossing the Chasm data data paprazzi events geospatial Information Everywhere Local News market analysis skills Uncategorized Tags: big data, big data adoption, Catalyst, crossing the chasm, data, data paprazzi, data scientist, end users, experience, health, Information Everywhere, innovation, market analysis, phones, pseudo-tweets, Silicon Valley, statistics, Twitter
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 9, 2012 | Comments Off
“Never odd or even” — palindromes draw respect when they carry at least some spark of meaning; you’ll even read them twice. Some time ago, a good friend of mine came up with the idea of pseudo-palindromes (the same abrupt absurd and worthlessness), but you’ll read them twice anyway: “Eat timely Nathan. Want tea? ” [...]
Category: Big Data data paprazzi innovation Inquire Within Local News Uncategorized Tags: analysis, analytics, big data, data, data paprazzi, Gartner predicts, health, innovation, odd, phones, probability, pseudo-tweets, refuseniks, social, statistics, Twitter
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). [...]
Category: "Data Scientist" Big Data cloud data paprazzi innovation Inquire Within skills Uncategorized Tags: analysis, analytics, big data, California, Catalyst, data, data janitor, data paprazzi, data scientist, data spy, experience, hadoop, hiring, HR, innovation, jobs, salary, scientists, search, teams
