There's no such thing as big data
“You know,” said a good friend of mine last week, “there’s really no such thing as big data.” I sighed a bit inside. In the past few years, cloud computing critics have said similar things: that clouds...
View ArticleFour short links: 4 October 2011
jfdi.asia — Singaporean version of TechStars, with 100-day program (“the bootcamp”) Jan-Apr 2012. Startups from anywhere in the world can apply, and will want to because Singapore is the gateway to...
View ArticleBig data goes to work
Companies that are slow to adopt data-driven practices don’t need to worry about long-term plans — they’ll be disrupted out of existence before those deadlines arrive. And even if your business is on...
View ArticleBig crime meets big data
Marc Goodman (@futurecrimes) is a former Los Angeles police officer who started that department’s first Internet crime unit in the mid-1990s. After two decades spent working with Interpol, the United...
View ArticleSurvey results: How businesses are adopting and dealing with data
On December 7, 2011, we held our fifth Strata Online Conference. This series of free web events brings together analysts, innovators and researchers from a variety of fields. Each conference, we look...
View ArticleStrataRx: Data science and health(care)
By Mike Loukides and Jim Stogdill We are launching a conference at the intersection of health, health care, and data. Why? Our health care system is in crisis. We are experiencing epidemic levels of...
View ArticleSolving the Wanamaker problem for health care
By Tim O’Reilly, Julie Steele, Mike Loukides and Colin Hill “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” — Jeff Hammerbacher, early Facebook employee “Work on...
View ArticleAnalyzing health care data to empower patients
The stress of falling seriously ill often drags along the frustration of having no idea what the treatment will cost. We’ve all experienced the maddening stream of seemingly endless hospital bills, and...
View ArticleBig data is dead, long live big data: Thoughts heading to Strata
A recent VentureBeat article argues that “Big Data” is dead. It’s been killed by marketers. That’s an understandable frustration (and a little ironic to read about it in that particular venue). As I...
View ArticleLeading Indicators
In a conversation with Q Ethan McCallum (who should be credited as co-author), we wondered how to evaluate data science groups. If you’re looking at an organization’s data science group from the...
View ArticleAnother Serving of Data Skepticism
I was thrilled to receive an invitation to a new meetup: the NYC Data Skeptics Meetup. If you’re in the New York area, and you’re interested in seeing data used honestly, stop by! That announcement...
View ArticleTips and Tricks for Debugging Distributed Systems
By Philip Zeyliger I’m talking on Wednesday at Strata about Tips and Tricks for Debugging Distributed Systems. You should come check it out. As a preview, let’s talk about two pretty pictures. Network...
View ArticlePursuing data science as a second profession
Yogi Saxena is not one to back down from a challenge. The distance runner ran in his first marathon just two years ago in order to win a bet. Next month, he competes in another grueling marathon, his...
View ArticleOn the importance of imagination in data science
Amy Heineike According to Amy Heineike, the Director of Mathematics at Quid, there’s nothing like having a fresh dataset in R and knowing how to use it. “You can add a few lines of code and discover...
View ArticleMaking things happen: from being a software engineer to writing a book
We launched the second edition of Kristina Chodorow’s book, MongoDB: The Definitive Guide at a recent MongoDB conference in San Francisco. Everyone worked hard to make this happen. I filmed a little...
View ArticleMake us think: a call for Strata keynote videos
Each year at Strata, we warm up the crowd in the main keynote sessions with short videos that will make people think. These videos demonstrate the ways that data, technology, and visualization are...
View ArticleWhy is building custom recommender systems hard? Does it have to be?
Photo Courtesy of Carlos Guestrin By Carlos Guestrin Today, it’s shocking (and honestly exciting) how much of my daily experience is determined by a recommender system. These systems drive amazing...
View ArticlePodcast: automation and an abundance-oriented economy
What happens if emerging technology and automation result in a world of abundance, where anyone at anytime can produce anything they need and there’s no need for jobs? In his recent Strata keynote,...
View ArticlePodcast: thinking with data
Max Shron and Jake Porway spoke with me at Strata a few weeks ago about frameworks for making reasoned arguments with data. Max’s recent O’Reilly book, Thinking with Data, outlines the crucial process...
View ArticleBuilding pipelines to facilitate data analysis
In every data analysis, you have to string together many tools. You need tools for data wrangling, visualisation, and modelling to understand what’s going on in your data. To use these tools...
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