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Centaur Intelligence: Half-Human, Half Machine
by Svetlana Sicular | September 20, 2016
I call the symbiosis of a man and a machine Centaur Intelligence, in which the head is always human: people do at what they excel — curiosity, creativity and compassion....
A Secret Sauce of Data Governance
by Svetlana Sicular | February 28, 2016
When Gartner clients ask me how to start data governance, they often expect some magic solution. And they are right — such magic exists: it’s the people. Find others —...
Catalyst Makes You Look Smart: Big Data Analytics for Non-Data Citizens
by Svetlana Sicular | July 24, 2015
Analytics is exploding — it is becoming everybody’s domain, rather than an expert’s domain. The digital economy requires to expand your existing expertise with new knowledge. The digital economy is...
Two Main Questions about Big Data
by Svetlana Sicular | April 16, 2015
More and more people describe the speed of big data technologies in dog years. In the lightning-fast cadence (“fail fast”), considerations for actual technical professionals who are deploying big data...
Return of the Data Scientist
by Svetlana Sicular | March 27, 2015
I am convinced, data science was not born in 2008 — it’s just the term “data scientist” which has been coined that year. I wrote a blog post Data Scientist...
What’s Next for Big Data?
by Svetlana Sicular | December 23, 2014
Shortly after joining Gartner, I noticed subtle magic in the air. Not Magic Quadrants – they were too obvious. It was I told you so repeated by many analysts on...
Big Data Is Entering the Age of Aquarius
by Svetlana Sicular | October 23, 2014
Suddenly, I realized: fluids are in, animals are out. The big data ecosystem has given up on its elephants, impalas and pigs in favor of aquatics. Perhaps, the shift started...
5+ Big Data Companies to Watch
by Svetlana Sicular | June 17, 2014
People often ask me if there is a magic quadrant for big data. There isn’t. What we have is a Hype Cycle for Big Data with abundance of big data...
Big Data Quantity vs. Quality
by Svetlana Sicular | May 22, 2014
Increasing adoption of big data technologies brings about the big data dilemmas:
Quality vs. quantity
Truth vs. trust
Correction vs. curation
Ontology vs. anthology
Data profiling, cleansing or matching in Hadoop or...
Wall Street is Hiring for Big Data
by Svetlana Sicular | April 28, 2014
Big data finally reached Wall Street. Not for small science experiments, but seriously, in grand style, with exorbitant salaries, for production and DevOps. A couple of years ago, Silicon Valley companies...
