Business
books. Anyone done study to see if there's statistical correlation between
reading & succeeding? Or is the biz case purely wishful?
Financial
advice columns. I get numbed by the sameness of advice, week after week, year
after year. Yes, I diversify. I also eat my broccoli
People
talk about the emerging App Economy & API Economy. But what about the Ape
Economy that's arisen from those "Planet of" sequels?
RIP
James Garner. He could inject a delicious wise-cracking tone into every part.
My fave was him in "Victor/Victoria."
A
hamburger. Does it elevate or demean this fare if we refer to it as a
"sandwich"? Or is it more of a "meal between buns"? Discuss
amongst
Doves
"Snowden" (http://ow.ly/zm95i ) JK--2005. Nothing to
do with Edward. Or was it? Sending secret musical signals to future NSA rat?
Israel
expanding its Gaza ground offensive. Their offensive objective seems to be to
grind it all into the ground.
Wife
tends to confuse all the California cities whose names begin with
"San" or "Santa." Would be great if they were all in the
same county.
Watched
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" on DVD. Elaborately constructed Wes
Anderson quirkfest. Ralph Fiennes seems 2 B channeling Peter Sellers.
What's
best about summer is that I can go barefoot or wear sandals most of the time.
Feet need freedom. Shoes are confining.
The
most useful skill in life is simply to sit still & relax. Action is
overrated.
RT
@ReutersTech Snowden seeks 2
devel anti-surveillance techs (http://reut.rs/1nJvvXi ) JK--Think that
idea'll sail w/ his Russian overseers?
US
dairy farmers hurting as Americans explore other "milks" (almond, soy,
coconut, etc). Apparently, any thin white potable liquid = "milk."
Safe
to come out now? I thought that Supermoon would cause Supergravity, Supertides,
& Supertsunamis. Really dodged a bullet there!!!
The
more memories you have, more exhausting & time-consuming it is to remember
stuff. Selective forgetfulness can be bliss. Oblivious living
RIP
Fred Ordway. Tech adviser to Kubrick's "2001." Ensured verisimilitude
of the minute details that grounded cosmic themes in real physics
Caught
"Lee Daniels' Th Butler" on DVD last night. Decent acting but clumsy
expository dialogue, unlikely situations, & cliched news footage
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Eating Noddemix by
Young Marble Giants from Colossal Youth JK--Only song where Alison Statton
simply speaks.
Hey,
Facebook, why exactly do you show I "like" Steve Wozniak? I have no
opinion on him, & I doubt I ever clicked him. You've done this B4
Nice
to be home. Cool spell here in DC. Costa Rica was also cool. Literally and
idiomatically.
"Crowdfunding:
10 platforms on the rise" (http://ow.ly/zkaEV ) JK--Curious when the
regulators will start to clamp down on these.
"Ethics
Framewk 4 #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/zk9IS )
JK--Disappointing. Talks more about "is it legal and/or polite?" than
"is it ethical?"
“
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ”
--Samuel Butler
"Efficient
Buildings to Be 100% Sensed" (http://ow.ly/zk8iw )
JK--The walls have IoT. Utopia or dystopia, depending on how you lean.
RT
@pulvereyes: Wake-up call for
many: excellent, logical perspective from @jameskobielus on FB mood manip
exprmnt http://bit.ly/1mWMkT4
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Company Man by
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires frm Dereconstructed JK--2014. Serious
guitar-shredding goin' down
"Is
ETL on Life Support?" (http://ow.ly/zibq7 ) JK--Until the
never-day hetero #bigdata
becomes homogeneous Lake Hadoop, ETL'll endure
"15
interviews w/15 data scientists" (http://ow.ly/zib3e )
JK--Downloadable PDF has ample detail on cool projex
"Managing
the Supply Chain with a Retail Data Warehouse" (http://ow.ly/ziaTV )
JK--Plus retail analytics & transactional apps
"Prncpls
4 scal #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/zi8ro )
JK--Scale-econ sys cap. Cmplxty hurts sclblty. State mgmt in data tier. Mon key
to manage
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Rock & Roll by
Velvet Underground JK--"Despite all the amputations"? Was Jenny life
saved by dancefloor prosthetics?
New
#IBM jk blog:
"Real-world experiments and the Facebook controversy over mood
manipulation" (http://ow.ly/zhGu5 )
On
a business level, Costa Rica feels like it's positioning for role in world
commerce similar to Singapore or UAE. Entrepôt for its region.
Rainy
day in San Jose CR. Staying inside at #IBM's office complex. Nice
new buildings. Most cubicles occupied. Super-smart people buzzing.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Bethlehem Steel by
Grant Lee Buffalo from Copperopolis JK--1996. The relentless rolling tension is
indeed steely.
A7
frustrations include trying to do too much at one time - start small, succeed,
then expand #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
#BigDataMgmt: A7:
Biz frustrations w/#Analytics
centered on; Lack of #Trust
and Understanding of Outcomes; Time to Decision lags & Value.
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7
Easy: Projects too slow, cost too much, wrong technology 4 business prob,
inflexibility in terms of change - to name a few! #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7-
I think the biz can also get frustrated with complexity- the solution has to be
EASY to use, easy to deploy #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7-
that's easy- speed, speed and speed. How long it takes to get the solution, how
fast the solution is #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7:
#bigdatamgmt Biz
gets frustrated with budget, time, and staff required to consolidate data into
EDW that drives downstream analytics
A7:
#bigdatamgmt
Biggest frustration w/ analytics projex is business' inability 2 change
operational decis-making culture to realize max ROI
A6
Enabling Self-service BI can help if done properly and managed. #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
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by jameskobielus
#BigDataMgmt:
Latency is the enemy of Decision Support. @nancykoppdw: Q6- #inmemory enables
better speed on olap and operational analysis
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A6
Creating experimental “sandboxes” alongside (NOT replacing) the EDW. Let the
play begin! #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A6-
the simplicity of solutions like #ibmblu where you just
load and go combined w/ depth of #cognos make it more
consumable #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A6:
#bigdatamgmt
Prepacked embedded predictive models in biz analytics is progress. Don't need
own data scientists to reinvent those wheels
A6:
#bigdatamgmt
User-friendly interactive visualization of data analytics is progress. People
think visually. Illuminates patterns.
A6:
#bigdatamgmt
In-memory business analytics is progress. Speed-of-thought query response,
report updates, interactive exploration.
A6:
#bigdatamgmt
Cloud access to data analytics is progress to pervasive/cost-effective. Elim
need to maintain own in-house servers/staff.
A6:
#bigdatamgmt
Mobile access to analytics is progress toward pervasiveness. Prescriptive
real-time data-driven guidance in palm of hand
A5
tech pitfall- doing too much at once, solve one problem at a time, don't try to
solve all analytic challenges at once #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A5
Bus pitfall: Expecting a single person to be the perfect data scientist #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A5
- every business has a need for speed, in delivery, in usage #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A5:
#bigdatamgmt
Tech pitfall of analytics is lack of single version of truth. Need for data
consolidation, stewardship, governance, etc.
A5:
#bigdatamgmt
Chief tech pitfall of analytics initiatives is potential proliferation of
unused reports, dashboards, pred models, etc
A5:
#bigdatamgmt
Chief biz pitfall of analytics initiatives is encouraging decision maker
overreliance on numbers vs solid biz narrative
A4:
#bigdatamgmt
Driving implementation of advanced analytics? Need biz case for predictive
mod/data mining. Target mktg & campaign optzn
A4:
Education is mandatory and must be pervasive and obvious - CEO is big proponent
- bring numbers not gut to meetings! #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A4-
agile architecture is key. Traditional EDWs won't get you there #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A4
Clear, easily understood analytics explained in business terms - need analytics
interpreter, not just the data scientist… #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A4:
#bigdatamgmt
Ramp up advanced analytics by deepening talent bench in stat anal, data mining,
pred modl, data science, NLP, etc.
A4:
#bigdatamgmt
Advanced analytics depends on descriptive. Build, score, & refine
predictive models from historical & current data.
A4:
#bigdatamgmt
Basic vs. adv analytics? Not matter o "moving" from former to latter.
Co-equal components of "getting insights fast enough"
A3:
#bigdatamgmt
Distinguish btwn decision-support (i..e, driving human action) &
decision-automation analytics (i.e, driving system action)
A3
So my 4: descriptive (least valuable), diagnostic (good), predictive (better),
prescriptive (best) - and add cognitive! #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted by jameskobielus
Retweeted by jameskobielus
A3:
#bigdatamgmt
Distinguish between positive (what has happened, is happening, likely to) &
normatve analytics (what U should do about it
A3:
#bigdatamgmt
Distinguish btwn analytics on structured (e.g., data mining), unstructured
(e.g., NLP), & media (e.g, video analytics)
A3:
#bigdatamgmt
Distinguish btwn historical analytics (e.g. BI), current analytics (e.g., CEP),
& predictive analytics. Past present future
A3:
#bigdatamgmt
Distinguish btwn basic (reporting, query, perf mgt, etc) & adv analytics
(stat mod, data mining, pred analytics, NLP, etc.)
A2
Lack of analytical prowess in business - still a big challenge for cos wanting
to be more analytical #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A2:
#bigdatamgmt
Huge challenge is consol disparate data into unif analytics warehouse. Silos
frustrate access, rollup, efficiency, quality
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A2-
Performance has to be there, if the users get frustrated, the project will
fail. #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A2
Reach of BI analytics still mostly restricted to users who have experience to
exploit analytics for business benefit #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A2
Cloud is teaching how we can be more agile about the way we roll out analytics
inside the organization #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A2-
Trusted- the data has to be trusted, people go to jail over this now, companies
can fall fast. Users must trust the data #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A2:
#bigdatamgmt
Many biz people unaware of how rich their orgs' BI/analytics are. Challenge for
analytics pros is getting biz attention.
A2:
#bigdatamgmt Big
pervasiveness challenge is many orgs' lack of mobile real-time analytics. #IBM #Apple prtnrship
addressing that head-on
A1:
#bigdatamgmt
Executive mgmt focuses both on short-term results & long-term planning.
Demand integration of historical & pred analytics
A1:
#bigdatamgmt
Exec mgmt pushing for analytics that continually rollup all LOB operational
metrics against objectives. Data-drv decisions
A1
(on revised Q1): #bigdatamgmt
C-level demands analytics to directly assess concrete biz results, unfilitered
by mid-mgmt anecdote-passing
A1:
#bigdatamgmt As
editor-in-chief #IBMDataMag,
use analytics 2 eval readership-boosts from A/B tests o outbound wkly subscr
email formats
RT
@theCUBE #ThrowbackThursday
#theCUBE Interview #HadoopSummit 2012
http://youtu.be/a64tWsBdQZc
JK--According 2 this, my name back then was Jeff
Hmm.
More tips on how to "not be a jerk on Facebook" that sound like the
crabby chopbusting advice of a closet Facebook hater. Delete!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp While You Were
Sleeping by Elvis Perkins from Ash Wednesday JK--2007. "We stared for
hours in the Maker's face."
Asked
over dinner why so few Starbucks in Costa Rica, a major Starbucks-supplying
country. Was told CR'enos prefer to brew their own at home
Getting
Insights Fast Enough? Learn how to run #SAP faster w/ #DB2 #BLU at #BigDataMgmt chat
this morning. Details: http://ow.ly/zgvri
This
wk #IBMDataMag
qhs: http://ow.ly/zgtT8
http://ow.ly/zgtU9
http://ow.ly/zgtUY
http://ow.ly/zgtVV
http://ow.ly/zgtWR
Analytic
acceleration in cloud? New era of #bigdata as service (http://ow.ly/zgtmn )
Fri #IBMDataMag
qh in advance. Travel day tomorrow
Open
data? Open correlations in the common cause p1: http://ow.ly/zgs3n p2: http://ow.ly/zgs5q
Thurs #IBMDataMag
qh
Some
people just need a high-five. In the face. With a chair.
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
Jobs
who?
The
casual conversation at th Costa Rica event was about #IBM #Apple. So was the
chit-chat as I walked to the street. It's all th buzz today
Jacuzzi? J'accuse! Monsieur Jim, loungez
vous a l'eau lathereuse?
Delivered
my preso at prestige IT event in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica in fluent
Spanish. Correction: those were the 2 speakers before me.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Lavender by Ray
Lamontagne from Supernova JK--2014. I listened to this LP 2X on yesterday Delta
in-flight entertainmt
Gladwell's
"10,000 hour rule" is a bit like the "5-second rule." Min
time a skill lies befor U can pick it up--or max time re a fallen donut
As
usual, my brain twists my foreign languages in casual conversation. I
spontaneously blurt Indonesian salutations to Costa Ricans.
Data-scientist
skillsets? Data science in th new prod dev reprtoire p1: http://ow.ly/zdI9g
p2: http://ow.ly/zdIb1
Wed #IBMDataMag
qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Wait For A Minute by
tUnE-yArDs from Nikki Nack JK--2014. A cool jazzy/R&B arrangement topped by
MGarbus' agile voice
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Fall In Place by La
Sera from Hour Of The Dawn JK--2014. Nice. Sounds like would've been gr8
Blondie song back in day
Saying
"big data ethics" implies "big data" = applied domain, a la
business or medicine. It's not. That's like saying "mathematics
ethics"
Snowy
funeral scene. "Alice's Restaurant" (http://ow.ly/zcVCq ). 1st
time I'd heard Joni Mitchell. "Songs to Aging Children Come." Grave
Oh,
yeah, I'd forgotten. Lower latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere have earlier
sunsets in summer. 6:18pm Costa Rica. Already nighttime.
Now
that they're all dead, listening to the Ramones' classic LPs is a bit like
listening to Hank Williams. Undeniable American originals.
Hi
this is LinkedIn reminding U to congratul8 some total stranger whose connect
request U mindlessly reciprocated 2 yrs ago on their new job
Boredom
is a transient condition that all of us feel at times, but sometimes it's a
surface tension masking deep-seated restlessness.
Easy
to forget that corner o Flamingo & Koval in Vegas, block east o
Caesars/Bellagio, was where Tupac killed (http://ow.ly/zcCml ). '96.
Archie
dies taking bullet for openly gay senator? Atoning 4 sin o being a boring comic
book? (http://ow.ly/zcyhS )
"Apple
#IBM Forge Glbl Prtnrshp
2 Trnsfrm Ent Mobility" (http://ow.ly/zct2h ) JK--100+ ind-specific
IBM MobileFirst 4 iOS apps + cld svcs
"How
ML saving lives [and] hospitals $" (http://ow.ly/zbPnt )
JK--UW-Tacoma pilot predicts readmit risks 4 congstv heart failur patients
Hey
@loserboy IMHO it's best to
pronounce it "yer-ON-us." That way, you don't put "anus" or
"urine" in the planet's pronunciation.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Something Better
Beginning by The Kinks from Kinda Kinks JK--1965. A non-hit that should've been
huge. Luv this!
If
U eat yr own dog food, none of your rivals will want to eat your lunch. Unless
it's a dog-eat-dog world. In which case, you're dead meat!
When
innovators can't manage the enterprises they spawned. I'd like to write a book
called "When Founders Founder."
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Kissing Families by
Silversun Pickups JK--2005. LOL. Screams "everything is connected &
beautiful" like he's in pain
"Tweet
Chat: Insights Fast Enough?" (http://ow.ly/zbkRi )
JK--I'm on this too: Thurs July 17 11 AM EDT #IBMDataMag
"Augmented
MDM" (http://ow.ly/zbk8t ) JK--BigMatch:
InfoSphere MDM11.3 + MDM Prob Match Eng on #Hadoop #IBMDataMag
"Empowering
Devlprs in Brazil&Beyond" (http://ow.ly/zbjyI )
JK--Blog: #IBM T
Rodrigues de Souza Costa #IBMDataMag
"..Customer
Matching" (http://ow.ly/zbiUR ) JK--IBM InfoSphere
Probablstc Matchng Engine 4 BigInsights #IBMDataMag
"Ongoing
#BigData Analytics
Journey" (http://ow.ly/zbhYT ) JK--Dwnld whitepaper http://ow.ly/zbi6q
#IBMDataMag
"2014
#IBM IBV Analytics
Survey" (http://ow.ly/zbgIU ) JK--Takes just 15
mins: http://ow.ly/zbgVz #IBMDataMag
"Agile
Analytics for All" (http://ow.ly/zbgmd ) JK--Adam Ronthal on #IBM #Bluemix Analytics
Warehouse #IBMDataMag
"Convert
Real-Time Insight into Action" (http://ow.ly/zbf6s )
JK--KMadia on rl-tm actionable analytics #IBMDataMag
"Database
Backups for Peace o Mind: Pt 1" (http://ow.ly/zbeBE )
JK--Isaac Yassin on DB2 backup/recovry #IBMDataMag
My
first impression of San Jose, capital of Costa Rica: pleasant. People are
courteous & professional. Breezes are cool & refreshing.
Security
o #bigdata? Wholepop
secur analytx p1: http://ow.ly/zaQnN p2: http://ow.ly/zaQpr
Tues #IBMDataMag qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Hissing of
Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell JK--1975. Very nice sinuous jazzy vocal and
arrangement.
"Own
your own data" (http://ow.ly/z9f05 ) JK--Interesting, but
doesn't give you ownership of behavioral data you generate.
"Spark
Restarts the Data Processing Race" (http://ow.ly/z8NzQ ) JK-- #Gartner NHeudecker sez
"too early to pick winners and losers"
"Music
recommendations with 300M data points and one SQL query" (http://ow.ly/z8LuZ )
JK--Ahh, overkill! Spare yourself. Just follow ME.
"Man
is the only animal that eats the ice in his drink." --Martin Mull
"
#Hadoop 2, YARN set
to shake up data management and analytics" (http://ow.ly/z8GcM )
JK--WEckerson mentions Spark in this same context
NASA
DASHlink: "A web-based collaboration tool for those interested in data
mining and systems health" (http://ow.ly/z8FOH )
"Amazing
#BigData World of
Kaggle & the Crowdsourced Data Scientist" (http://ow.ly/z8CJR )
JK--Good update on community gaining traction
Fox
News panel has attractive woman named Jedediah. They need a studmuffin named
Bathsheba to keep it all fair and balanced.
"4
Unexpected Impacts of #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/z8wH8 )
JK--Revital'zn o DW. Resil o RDBMS. Redoubling of hetero envs. Resurge of
quants
RT
@IBM_DB2 Hope U can join our
Tweetchat on Thurs! @InfoMgmtExec
@jameskobielus @db2fred @eatonchris @BigData_paulz pic.twitter.com/r9Rxzz3SsO
"Duke
Medicine's #BigData
Plan to Improve Population Health" (http://ow.ly/z8tXX )
JK--Discusses geospatial applications for healthcare
"
#Hadoop Clusters:
Size And Speed Matter" (http://ow.ly/z8t9U ) JK--Tips on choosing
Hadoop servers and storage.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp A Lyke Wake Dirge by
Matt Berninger & Andrew Bird JK--New. Wow! Their voices pair well on this
devotional dirge.
IBM
Watson: Providing A Second Opinion for Oncologists http://bit.ly/1tI5zEs
"SoftLayer
Fuels Hybrid Cloud Growth for #IBM
w/ New Clients and Services" (http://ow.ly/z7V9m )
JK--Info on customers, partners, & svcs
"Martha
Stewart: Drones Are 'Lots of Fun'" (http://ow.ly/z7UdZ ) JK--No
surprise there, given her reputation as the foremost Queen Bee.
Drafted
new #IBM jk blog:
"Real-World Experiments and the Facebook Controversy over Mood
Manipulation"
Real-world
experiments? Dissecting Facebook contro over mood manip p1: http://ow.ly/z7MuD
p2: http://ow.ly/z7MwS
Mon #IBMDataMag
qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Meet Me in the
Morning by Bob Dylan from Blood on the Tracks JK--Great one from this classic
LP. Bob does blues well.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Dead Sound by The
Raveonettes from Lust Lust Lust JK--IMHO, their song-of-songs: one that
iconically plays in my head
"U.S.
DARPA researchers announce the self-guided bullet" (http://ow.ly/z6AIf )
JK--.50 caliber. Mile-plus range. Laser-marked targets.
"'Columbusing':
The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New" (http://ow.ly/z6A9a )
JK--Good word. You just appropriate the past.
RT
@Queen_UK: This is awkward. Winning
doesn't come naturally to Germany or Argentina. #worldcupfinal
Ornette
Coleman (w/Haden, Cherry, Higgins) "Shape o Jazz 2 Come" (http://ow.ly/z60mv ).
'59. Eschws chord structur. Free imprv off melody
Tommy
Ramone became bluegrass musician in l8r yrs. Said was natural progression 4
punk. Fine line btwn "Foggy Mtn Brkdwn" & "Blitzkrieg
Bop"
"Spinal
Tap" joked about drummers dying, one after another, & needing
replacement. Ramones were the exact opposite. Drummers lived longest.
RT
@KristiMKE: Transforming agile data
warehouse in the age of the in-memory cloud | #BigData http://hubs.ly/q0Bb30
pic.twitter.com/EgpWfQTuTR
Waiting
for that optimal time of th morning when it's still cool enough for me 2 mow th
lawn but not so early I wake neighbors with th noise
Usual
Saturday of scattered chores and diligent laziness. Finished Graham Nash
memoir. By "finished," I mean "stopped reading after 1972."
