Friday, May 07, 2010

Aweekstweets May 2-7 2010: week I almost lost it over “Hadpoop”

#forrester #BI tweet jam Thur 5-13 2-3pm EDT http://bit.ly/bk6VMm w/ me @rbkarel @bevelson @nyuhanna @hkisker @owensleslie @gleganza half a minute ago via TweetDeck

"Twitter Launches Embeddable Tweets" (http://bit.ly/aXVX7W) JK--Hmm...Facebook should allow embed of full-fledged ratings (not just "like"). about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

"15 Fictional Heroes of Geek" (http://bit.ly/b0vnpu) JK--"Without being handsome"? And you start with Keanu Reeves? Wooden, but good looking about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

"Pentagon bringing advanced math concepts to battlefield" (http://bit.ly/9j56VU) JK--Practical predictive interdictive ballistics & tactics about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

"What's Not BI? Don't Get Jim Kobielus Started..." (http://bit.ly/cbPygR) JK--When Doug Henschen puts me in newsletter headline, ego boost! about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

@Futureratti I tweeted all my key points in the past 24 hours. Scrollback through my Twitter profile to reconstruct my highpoints. about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to Futureratti

@CurtMonash I suggest you speak with the Electronic Privacy Information Clearinghouse: http://bit.ly/IUk9d. Leading privacy advocacy group. about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

@CurtMonash Good one. Restrictions on PII use must make it inadmissible in courts of law and actionable, with damages, if our trust violated about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

"Is Moore's Law Really Dead?" (http://bit.ly/ccjsDZ) JK--Of course not. "Love is all around. You're gonna make it after all." Oh Mr. Grant! about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck

"Delivering data analytics...." (http://bit.ly/cgT8dJ) JK-- BI interfaces must fit every decision point with pinpoint precision. about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Safeway by Gabriel Mintz #KEXP: JK--One of those great rock singing voices just screaming for major radio play. about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Safeway by Gabriel Mintz #KEXP: JK--Disconnect btwn guy's speaking & singing voices. Not as wince-inducing as Jim Nabors' about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck

The notion of "oversharing" is becoming as quaint as "information overload." Worried about either? What century are you living in? about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck

"Is Apple Another Microsoft?" (http://bit.ly/9OAe1L): JK--You can't help but think that Apple's walking a razor's edge right now. about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck

@joanna_rustin I'm self-referential as all hell. But I'm pathological. ;-) about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to joanna_rustin

Shows how into your job at BI analyst can get when your focus turns to "BI on BI." Likewise, when we get off on "analysis about analysts." about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @johnrrymer: Talking to IBM #SPSS with a pod of Forrester analysts, including @jameskobielus and @mgualtieri and @owensleslie about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck

Taking a briefing from IBM SPSS with my colleagues @johnrrymer @mgualtieri about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck

In other words, deep analytic mining discerns patterns in anything--past present future--that is beyond first glance & beyond your nose. about 7 hours ago via txt

In analytics "mining" looks 4 non-obvious patterns in infosets 4 timescapes past, present, projected. "Deep" is any timescape beyond yr nose about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck

Perfection is overrated. For example, the notion of a "perfect storm." I prefer the imperfection of sunny skies, lo-humidity, & calm breezes about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck

"IBM Launches Rsch Effort to Build 360-Deg View of Factors Affecting Human Health" (http://bit.ly/allvGo) JK--360-deg? Spiritual factors 2? about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Table Tennis feat. Laura Darlington by Flying Lotus #KEXP: JK--The actual table tennis sounds/rhythm holds your attention about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck

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@SethGrimes I recommended hire & retain about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

@CurtMonash Not radical concept. Just as U mine past 2 C non-obvious patterns, can look 4 non-obvious patterns of probability & potentiality about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

@CurtMonash What does this mean? about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

Was a lovely day for a stroll in downtown DC. Almost felt like hooky. But school was cool, and ruled, and nobody played the fool. 3:52 PM May 6th via txt

#Asterdata co-founder discussed potential use case of Big Data Platforms for web identity res & mining. Obvious priv implic, per @CurtMonash 3:49 PM May 6th via txt

#SAS in-db integr with #Asterdata continues to impress. Steadily pushing down more SAS adv analytics & DI f'ns to nCluster. Analytic app svr 3:44 PM May 6th via txt

#MicroStrategy DashboardApps. Portable personal subj-marts containing only you-relevant data, calcs, & visualiz'ns. When Big Data overkill. 3:41 PM May 6th via txt

Social BI. Subject-matter expert-circles coalesce to populate collaborative subject marts. Embrace, extend, & supplement yr subj datamarts 3:41 PM May 6th via txt

DW is engine of decision support. Highest quality decisions require 360 time-horizon: then+now+soon. Ability 2 see & shape the soon sooner. 3:27 PM May 6th via txt

Grand challenges requiring Big Data? Mining deep future requires Big Processing. 3:21 PM May 6th via txt

Grand challenges requiring Big Data? Mining deep present requires Big Bandwidth. 3:20 PM May 6th via txt

Grand challenges requiring Big Data? Mining deep past requires Big Storage. 3:19 PM May 6th via txt

Grand challenges requiring Big Data? Mining deep past, deep present, deep future. 3:18 PM May 6th via txt

"Slingin' straight SQL." I love the macho power lingo of core dev pros. But I'm a guy, so go figure. 11:00 AM May 6th via txt

At #Asterdata Big Data in DC. Great presos by them #MicroStrategy #SAS #Comscore @CurtMonash. Chatting with @SethGrimes. I'm on panel. 10:12 AM May 6th via txt

Here at #Aster Big Data conference in DC. Presos start soon. 7:20 AM May 6th via txt

Listening to Fleetwood Mac "Little Child of Mine" from "Bare Trees" (1972). Fave rocker from the LPs preceding the Buckingham-Nicks dynasty. 8:30 PM May 5th via txt

This just in. I'll be moderating a BI panel on Sept 21 at #Computerworld BI Perspectives in lovely La Jolla CA. Oh, how sweet it is! 4:50 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Swim Until You Can't See Land by Frightened Rabbit #KEXP: JK--So far, the best new song of 2010. 4:06 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

@JBrodkin #immigration #geography #truf Anybody trying to pass a puck across the Arizona desert floor immediate suspected of Canuck-titude! 3:10 PM May 5th via TweetDeck in reply to JBrodkin

RT @kexpplaylist: Windfall by Son Volt #KEXP: JK--Jay Farrar has a very hootenanny-ready voice. No, I don't recommend he do "Kumbaya." 2:51 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

Reminder: Save the date for upcoming 5/13/10,2pm ET @forrester #BI TweetJam (Use "#dmjam" hashtag)-Topic "What BI is NOT" - all are welcome! 1:56 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

RT @BobDylanSays: "I wouldn't change it if I could" JK--C'mon Bob. "Blonde on Blonde"'s great, but "Sad Eyed Lady of Lowlands" needs editing 1:55 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

@ashish_bhagwat #bpm An especially odd idiomatic phrase. Has there ever been type of mustard too viscous to cut? Squeeze from bottle, maybe 1:52 PM May 5th via TweetDeck in reply to ashish_bhagwat

@robsaker Right. Actually, was going 2 tweet about how truncated headlines can mislead inadvertently. Ironic, Twitter truncation stymied me. 1:50 PM May 5th via TweetDeck in reply to robsaker

"Question of the week: What is BI?" (http://bit.ly/b4ckX1). JK--Two more cents from this analyst. BI is your "brilliance infrastructure." 1:27 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

"Social networks shouldn't reuse private info" (http://bit.ly/be9OjQ). JK--Disagree. Should reuse within whatever context you authorize. 1:21 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

"N.Y. bomb plot highlights limitations of data mining" (http://bit.ly/b765sx): JK--No way. Data mining finds patterns. Not surveillance tech 1:19 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

RT @BobDylanSays: "It's well understood" JK--Thank you, Bob! Twas pleasure responding to your inquiry on best practices re Hadpoop pushdown 11:22 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

Lemonade almost spewed from my nostrils upon seeing advanced analytics framework misspelled as "Hadpoop." 11:09 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

Legendary Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell dies at 92 (http://bit.ly/bJXAU8). Voice deeply embedded in my childhood Detroit memories 11:07 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

Oh, great. For once, Cinco de Mayo falls on the Fifth of May. These moveable feasts get me dizzy. 9:48 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

Looking forward to panel tomorrow at #Aster Big Data Summit, DC: http://bit.ly/aIvRyw. Yrs trly + @CurtMonash #sas #microstrategy #comscore 9:16 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Cross Bones Style by Cat Power #KEXP: JK--Time slows perceptibly when this song begins. Chan Marshall casts trance-y spell 9:12 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

Idiro service incorporates graph database for SNA. I'm speaking with another vendor this afternoon re graph database for SNA. Hot trend! 9:10 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

My chat with Idiro underlined the fact that SNA is absolutely mainstream among telecom/carriers. Churn analysis is critical to bottom lines 9:07 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

Just finished excellent briefing with Idiro Technologies, which provides social network analysis for telco churn, x-sell, & viral marketing. 9:05 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

Nice cool morning in Franconia. Feels like a day for max productivity. Or, simply, feels like a day of minimal sweat. Same diff. 6:38 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Heroin by The Velvet Underground #KEXP: JK--The greatest slow-burning-build-to-orgasmic-rush song in rock history. 6:36 AM May 5th via TweetDeck

Social network analysis. Complex graphs of nodes, edges, & weights. Path analyses tracing the twisty evolution of entanglement. Graph DBs. 6:41 PM May 4th via txt

Social network analysis. Discover emergent patterns of influence within chaotically unfathomable ad-hoc networks. The Internet of odd things 6:35 PM May 4th via txt

Social network analysis. Applies to more than just human societies. It's behavioral analytics. Any ecosystem bursting with behavior. Even IT 6:31 PM May 4th via txt

I'm imbuing everything I cover with the color of SOA. The pervasive hue and rules of maximal reuse. 6:13 PM May 4th via txt

The splattergram of techs I cover. Actually, they cover me. I take their coloration, like sunrays, tattooing, that tell of time outdoors. 6:09 PM May 4th via txt

Want to tweet about Lynn Redgrave. I could relate more 2 her than her sister. Lynn did more American TV. Like Angela Lansbury, she felt real 6:02 PM May 4th via txt

Cooling my jets. Not so much digesting as metabolizing it all. Seeing an image of matching beach chairs projected into the middle distance. 5:53 PM May 4th via txt

Listening to Charlotte Gainsbourg "Time of the Assassins" from "IRM" C'est magnifique! 4:40 PM May 4th via txt

What is not BI? What is not a database? What's not a business process? What's not a social net? Not an app? What's not a service? What? 4:37 PM May 4th via txt

Is your use of social media approaching diminishing marginal utility? Is it Pareto optimal? Trade-off analysis: social media vs. get-a-life? 11:58 AM May 4th via TweetDeck

Personally, "cool" vendors bore me. I only dig vendors that are "way cool." No, I dig vendors who are "way too cool & rule school"! 11:49 AM May 4th via TweetDeck

Sharmila says she loves her iPad. Says she doesn't use it for anything "productive." IMHO, productivity's in the eye of the producer. 8:20 AM May 4th via txt

Reading paper-based project files, waiting 4 IT to finish work on laptop. Reading paper (NYT). Pieces on Goldman (Sachs) & Silverman (Sarah) 8:07 AM May 4th via txt

Washington Times in disarray, says NYT. Snakes invading conference rooms, says WashPost. Silent partner's agents come to call? 7:08 AM May 4th via txt

Was telling Sharmila last night that I'm late adopter of gadgetry. When I do adopt, I clutch it to my heart and flood it with fresh content. 7:05 AM May 4th via txt

In downtown Cambridge, on the street, in the womb of the MIT matrix, there are approximately 10 million leaky WiFi signals. Mas o menos. 6:56 AM May 4th via txt

That Nickelback guy should cover Barry McGuire "Eve of Destruction." Has the throat for it. Song definitely needs updating. 5:44 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

@HowardTO Tools? Me? Phillips head and a squirk of WD-40. Why do you ask? 5:42 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck in reply to HowardTO

@madgreek65 Exactly 30 years ago this month, when I got sheepskin from UM-Ann Arbor, think we heard ex-Pres Gerald Ford, if not mistaken. 4:52 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck in reply to madgreek65

Twitter and the golden age of editing for space 4:46 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

How will social media impact BI? Enable powerful SNA, sifting behavior & sentiment data to ID relationships in online communities 4:45 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

How will social media impact BI? Monitor & mine streams of soc.med. content, thereby accel converge of data mining, content analytics, & CEP 4:44 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

How will social media impact BI? Encourage user-centric dev of multimedia repositories, evolve EDWs into comprehensive “content warehouses” 4:42 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

How will social media impact BI? Bring Wikipedia & Facebook models into BI user experience, converge w/ social ntwking, KM, & collab archs 4:41 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

Sitting here, building the Bridge Over the River Cam. Over there, Alec Guinness. What was that insanely catchy tune those POWs whistled? 4:24 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

RT @BobDylanSays: "Now, he's underneath that apple suckling tree" JK--Recognize it. This one's from "Basement Tapes." You a sly one, Bobby! 4:22 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Johnny Nightmare by The Secret History #KEXP: JK--New group with twangy Lesley Gore vibe. See "MacColl, Kirsty." 4:05 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

How will social media impact BI? Will leverage vast pools of social intelligence. Enable sharing of user-generated subject-oriented content. 3:56 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

"Six Flags emerges from Chapter 11 with new plan" (http://bit.ly/cG2Mkd) JK--Plan involves inflicting weird jiggy bald guy on us thru TV ads 3:20 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

"Oh I love that dirty water. Boston you're my home." Couldn't help myself. BTW, neither of those statements is true. 3:11 PM May 3rd via TweetDeck

I've lived & worked in WashDC area for 25 years. But only time I read Politico & ilk is when at airport, it's free, & nothing else to read. 8:01 AM May 3rd via txt

Speaking of songs reminiscent of Patsy's best, check out "Thieves" from She & Him's new "Volume 2." Z. Deschanel is great singer-songwriter. 7:51 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: James by Camera Obscura #KEXP: JK--Here again. Camera Obscura song so heart-rending it could almost be classic Patsy Cline 7:49 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

Gearing up for a week of consulting and speaking. Also, working on #Forrester Wave on Customer Service. 7:47 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Valleys of Neptune by Jimi Hendrix #KEXP: JK--Cool new Hendrix release. Yes, new. On Sony Music release of same name. 7:44 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

@patrickdixon Use the American model. Perhaps the Greeks should lease out commercial naming rights to the Parthenon. 7:41 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck in reply to patrickdixon

See what's happening in Gulf. Imagine drilling offshore Virginia. Oily goo coating Va Bch, OC MD, NC Outer Bnks, Chesapeake Bay, Rehoboth... 7:38 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

@M_Myers Oy! That was a pretty snappy. Gotta hand it to you. 7:33 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck in reply to M_Myers

"Data Mining With WEKA: Introduction and Regression" (http://bit.ly/ajSoYJ) (http://bit.ly/8v1Sp) JK--Open source pred analytics community 7:32 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

Watching tech vendors feud is a bit like watching hockey game brawls. Some people get into that stuff, but I prefer to see the main action. 7:29 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

"Steve Jobs' Thoughts Won't Shut Up the Flash Mob" (http://bit.ly/aFeoxl): JK--Which'll obviously consume news cycle for indefinite future 7:26 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

"Adobe CEO Responds to Jobs' Flash Attack" (http://bit.ly/bsJSDB): JK--Does anybody else feel this a wholly unnecessary & destructive feud? 7:24 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

"A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting." -- Russell H. Ewing. JK—And the best of them all makes it lesser and lighter. 7:21 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

Rain along the Eastern Seaboard. Slick along the Southern Seaboard. So far, all quiet along the Western Seaboard. 7:18 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

Fine line between the historian & the hoarder. Both hold onto tokens of past as if tomorrow depends on them. But tomorrow will come anyway. 7:16 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

Listening to Bangles' "Going Down to Liverpool" from 1984. Actually, watching the video. Never seen it before. Leonard Nimoy? Explain that! 7:05 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

Saw more spam ostensibly from UN Secretary General. The current one this time. If there's one thing all world's nations agree on, it's spam! 6:59 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck

@jameskobielus All of which, BTW, sort of explains why I'm still doing music reviews, in Twitter now. Paid squat 4 them then. Get squat now. 4:21 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck in reply to jameskobielus

@elissafink Yes briefly. They just another aspiring band passing thru Madison. Me just another college student doing reviews, mooching music 4:20 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck in reply to elissafink

Fave scene from Fellini "8-1/2": Crazy symbolic final. Director dramatis life-personae all rumba on beach in abandoned project of his mind. 12:10 PM May 2nd via txt

Indie rock's college radio promo channel remains key after 30 years. Don't care about alma maters. Do care what today's students listen to. 9:41 AM May 2nd via txt

Watching REM video, working out. REMember meet'g them, Madison, '83. Rec'd store. New indie gr'p. Promo 1st EP. College radio. Stipe mumbled 9:36 AM May 2nd via txt

Sentiment analysis. Entity analysis comes 1st. Or, rather, IDentity analysis. Who exactly holds such sentiments? Who am I with ref to them? 9:28 AM May 2nd via txt

Sentiment analysis. Each of us references whatever voxpop mean we perceive, albeit sometimes to stake personal stand in contradistinction. 9:24 AM May 2nd via txt

Sentiment analysis. Vox populi like a rolling average. Each of us roughly regresses to the mean, as soon as it's clear what the hell that is 9:20 AM May 2nd via txt

Sentiment analysis. How can we completely automate reading other people's minds/hearts when we can barely express what's in our own? 9:16 AM May 2nd via txt

Digital. Just occurred to me that word's root is Latin "finger." Delicious irony. Connotes complete automation. Implies human in the loop. 9:03 AM May 2nd via txt

Some clients despair re prospects 4 perfecting completely automated sentiment analysis. Should always hold at least one human digit to wind 8:58 AM May 2nd via txt

"Laura Bush memoir" (http://bit.ly/9ee3M2): JK--"Laura has always seemed the more interesting Bush. Certainly, the more mysterious." Agreed. 8:08 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck

@Bobbiec Me, old enough to actually have used a typewriter for all my writing all the way thru grad school and job search beyond. 7:56 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck in reply to Bobbiec

JK SNA speeches: 1 (http://bit.ly/anjYwg) 2 (http://bit.ly/9mO2F4) 3 (http://bit.ly/9MKdw1) 4 (http://bit.ly/i70Cx) 5 (http://bit.ly/46HqyB) 7:50 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck

@Bobbiec Telegraphy? A low-bandwidth messaging medium. Better to telegraph one's age than broadband it. Full disclosure: me 51. 7:34 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck in reply to Bobbiec

"Body found in Va. shed damaged by fire" (http://bit.ly/cwsP9w) JK--Omigod. WashPost Facebook says "B 1st of yr friends to like this" 7:23 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck

@Bobbiec 2 points to you! Nice to see that people are following my tweetstream, and are alert, on a Sunday morning. Me? Getting ready 4 yoga 7:16 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck in reply to Bobbiec

Was mentioning to clients that you need high-quality identity resolution solutions to extract positive IDs from social media monitoring 7:15 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck

My good friends at #ibm chuckle that "SNA" now has new meaning. Now "social network analysis." 2 pts if U can remember IBM-specific meaning! 7:13 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck