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Data Scientist – Mystified
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...
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“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...
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Cassandra for Greeks or for Geeks?
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...
View ArticleThe Sex Appeal of Math to Data Science
“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...
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Magic Realism of Big Data
Big data is moving from closets full of hidden Hadoop clusters into corner offices, where CEOs and boards of directors issue orders to deliver “big data strategy,” whatever it means. This is called...
View ArticlePersonal Analytics
I always thought that if all the efforts, energy and money, spent on technology, were invested in studying humans, we would have been equally advanced through mastering our own capabilities. I...
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The Illusions of Big Data
I’m afraid that more data and more analytics will create an illusion of solutions while the problems still persist. Many problems are intrinsically not possible to solve. Thousands of years of...
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The Charging Elephant — Pivotal
To allow our readers compare Hadoop distribution vendors side-by-side, I forwarded the same set of questions to the participants of the recent Hadoop panel at the Gartner Catalyst conference. The...
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Big Data Analytics is a Rocket Ship Fueled by Social, Mobile and Cloud
The rocket ship of big data analytics is launched and on its way to orbit. Data and analytics are gaining importance with a cosmic speed. The rocket ship is fueled by cloud, mobile and social forces....
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Gartner’s Big Data Definition Plays Out in Sports
As a Gartner analyst, I am fortunate to frequently meet amazing people. Qaizar Hassonjee from Adidas is not only one of them, but one of the most memorable ones among the amazing people. He is at the...
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What’s Next for Big Data?
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 many occasions. It seemed almost...
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Two Main Questions about Big Data
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...
View ArticleBig Data Is Pregnant with Analytics
We are at the interesting point: big data time is over. It is now big data analytics time. Many organizations are at the point when they have figured out how to get data in Hadoop (or other big data...
View ArticleData and Analytics at Catalyst Conference: Get Oriented Now!
Catalyst conference starts tomorrow. Our track is Building a Sustainable Data and Analytics Architecture for the Digital World, and in addition, there are more talks on data and analytics in other...
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A Secret Sauce of Data Governance
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 — SMEs, executives, business...
View ArticleBalancing Data and Analytics Governance
If you hear someone saying “D&A” it is not “DNA.” D&A stands for “Data and Analytics.” (Not “Depreciation and Amortization” or “Drug and Alcohol.”) The term “Information” has been confusing for...
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The Illusions of Big Data
I’m afraid that more data and more analytics will create an illusion of solutions while the problems still persist. Many problems are intrinsically not possible to solve. Thousands of years of...
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The Charging Elephant — Pivotal
To allow our readers compare Hadoop distribution vendors side-by-side, I forwarded the same set of questions to the participants of the recent Hadoop panel at the Gartner Catalyst conference. The...
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Big Data Analytics is a Rocket Ship Fueled by Social, Mobile and Cloud
The rocket ship of big data analytics is launched and on its way to orbit. Data and analytics are gaining importance with a cosmic speed. The rocket ship is fueled by cloud, mobile and social forces....
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Gartner’s Big Data Definition Plays Out in Sports
As a Gartner analyst, I am fortunate to frequently meet amazing people. Qaizar Hassonjee from Adidas is not only one of them, but one of the most memorable ones among the amazing people. He is at the...
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