Catch
me Tuesday in Luxembourg at EuroCloud Congress (http://ow.ly/pJLj5 ). I
chair panel on "Standards for #BigData in the
Cloud."
"Data,
Data Everywhere. So Much, So Messy" (http://ow.ly/pJK4D )
JK--Neat and trim dissection of the dimensions of the data quality mess.
"Fooled
by Twitter Data" (http://ow.ly/pJD8k ) JK--You bet. Twitter
sentiment is that of skewed demographic of niche passionistas.
"The
trickiness of forecasting rainfall" (http://ow.ly/pJCKx )
JK--Sentiment's another type of weather. Tricky to forecast. Same reasons
"#IBM Solves Virtual
Machine 'Noisy Neighbor' Problem" (http://ow.ly/pJznW )
JK--Problem of bandwidth-demanding VMs on shared host.
"IoT
Gets Major Distance Boost From #IBM &
Semtech" (http://ow.ly/pIYzz ) JK--Announcd hw/sw
wireless sys capab Xmit IoT data up to 15 km
"#BigData Is Too
Big for Scientists to Handle Alone" (http://ow.ly/pIX5I )
JK--Big Science = Big Collaborative Distributed Data Science
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Down to th
River 2 Pray by Alison Krauss from O Brother Where Art Thou? JK--One o many
standouts from gr8 film sndtrk
"#BigData Is
Neither An Atomic Bomb Nor A Holy Grail" (http://ow.ly/pIVXt )
JK--Good discussion of ethics politics & science by Gil Press
"#BigData
offline world: How data from brk&mrtr stores trumps online analytics"
(http://ow.ly/pIUkT )
JK--Analytics of in-person shopping
"#BigData:
Cutting through the bulls**t" (http://ow.ly/pITTX )
JK--Huh? What word is that? How do you pronounced double asterisks?
Federal
Times examines #IBM's
role in the competitive federal cloud computing marketplace. http://bit.ly/1bQHM9A
1979
cast a complete pall over my memories of the 1970s. I suspect others of my
generation felt the same.
1979.
The year was an intense punk meltdown. Three Mile Island. Iranian hostage
crisis. Post-Jonestown. My dad had just died. No nostalgia.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Dead Souls
by Joy Division from Unknown Pleasures JK--1979. Great crunchy goth-punk jam.
This
wk #IBM q-hs: http://ow.ly/pIO6z
http://ow.ly/pIO8r
http://ow.ly/pIO9N
http://ow.ly/pIObG
http://ow.ly/pIOdj
NoSQL?
Twisting the kaleidoscope to sharpen your view of myriad options (http://ow.ly/pINJK )
Friday #IBM
quick-hit
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Sleepwalking
(Couples Only Dance Prom Night) by Modest Mouse from Interstate 8 JK--1996.
Interpolates Santo+Johnny.
Spam
filters should have image analysis to detect photos of large amounts of cash.
Dead giveaway of sleazeball get-rich promotions.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Hand Me Down
by Visqueen from Message to Garcia JK--2009. Great Seattle power-pop band with
strong female lead.
If
you grew up near major city pre-VCR, local TV often showed classic films.
Detroiters back in day owed debt of gratitude to Bill Kennedy.
Streaming
has had powerful impact on my appreciation o classic & contemp pop music. I
listen to everything. Trad radio formats way too narrow
Great
Teachout WSJ column on early 80s impact of VCRs on popular appreciation of
cinema as art. Know classics by experience not reputation
"Chemistry
Nobel Prize 'about taking chemical experiment to cyberspace'" (http://ow.ly/pHbHY )
JK--Big Science = #BigData
Science
@P_Wannemacher No problemo. I'm a
selfless link-sharing machine, I am.
"Can
computers have hunches?" (http://ow.ly/pGzhC ) JK--Nobelist Daniel
Kahneman on diff between causal & statistical cognition
"In
Digital Era, What Does 'Watching TV' Even Mean?" (http://ow.ly/pGurB )
JK--Viewer attention toggles among vidstreams on 2+ screens
"Data
& its Derivatives" (http://ow.ly/pGt3X ) JK--Article calls 4
timestamped process-milestone data 2 facil sales/mktg funnel analytics
This
(http://ow.ly/pGs5E )
hadnt yet been announced when I wrote next wk blog prophecy: future Nobels will
go to computational physicists
Nobel
Prize in Chemistry went to theoretical scientists who pioneered virtual
experimentation via computers. That's a scientific landmark.
"Why
we need a standard for the Internet of things" (http://ow.ly/pGr51 )
JK--Discusses various international standardization initiatives
New
#IBM jk blog:
"Geospatial Analytics Transforming Brick-and-Mortar Retailing into a
Digital Experience" (http://ow.ly/pGqiZ )
"Establishing
an Analytics Culture in Public Safety" (http://ow.ly/pGq28 ) JK--Discusses
Vancouver's police dept adoption of the tech.
#CXO chat is back,
Mon 12 ET! Driving #Innovation
http://on.fb.me/19zEcSW
w/ @mjcavaretta #cctr #bigdata #custexp
RT
@IBM: #IBM wins dynamic
network bandwidth patent for cloud http://zd.net/19AsJMV #IBMcloud #innovation
Healthcare
analytics? Internet of Things & #bigdata
powering quantified communities (http://ow.ly/pGnkn )
JK--Thursday #IBM
quick-hit
"#IBM Rsch 2 Accel #BigData
Discov" (http://ow.ly/pGjjN ) JK--Accel Discov Lab.
Collab wkspace access data, analytics, infra, dom exprtse
Reading
"Age of Edison" by EFreeberg. Details how TAE inventd neither elctric
lite nor incandescent bulb. Just superior lighting utility sys
I
like to meditate while waiting for Windows to boot. No better way for the
mortal mind to get in touch with the concept of eternity.
#IBM launches
research lab for #bigdata
applications | VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/09/ibm-launches-research-lab-for-big-data-applications/#RDZq57Xw5yIC0p8i.02 …
via @VentureBeat
A
soggy one expected all day. Good. We need it. Sunlight is overrated.
@Michele_Moore 3 coauthors would
hafta've been awarded 3 Nobels (on top o other 2 indep paper-authors
(Higgs+Englert). Rules say 3 total max
RT
@dslovensky: #SoftLayer, #ibm company has
added 1600 new clients to its existing roster of 21000 clients since June #ibmcloud #gartnersym
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Opelika by
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires from There Is A Bomb in Gilead JK--Cool
one. I'd never heard of this...
Nobel
Physics Prize. Dumb rules. 6 devel theory in 1964; 1 died. 3 max (living) may
be honord. 2 non-coauthors got it. 3 coauthors disqual'd
"How
Lambda Archtcture Can Anlyze #BigData Batchs
in Nr R-T" (http://ow.ly/pF7IS ) JK--Aka "hybrid
architecture" (http://ow.ly/pF7Xt )
"Are
Data Scientists Hidden within Your Company?" (http://ow.ly/pF6RV )
JK--Discusses identifying people with the core aptitudes.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Summer
Painter by Bill Callahan from Dream River JK--This is a great poem delivered
& orchestrated thrillingly.
"Scientific
Data So Complex, Have 2 Invent New Math 2 Deal With It" (http://ow.ly/pETOy )
JK--Myriad dimensional topologcal data analysis
@jaymuelhoefer Jay: Yes, of course
I know them. Platform Computing (http://ow.ly/pExyi ) is #IBM. I'm IBM. I
know from long back, pre-IBM
Draftd
nxt wk #IBM jk
blog: "Geospatial Analytics: Evolving 2 Address Mindblowing #BigData
Challenges of Mapping Creation Across All Scales"
"#IBM New
[Sol'ns]" (http://ow.ly/pE3BR ) JK--PureSys (Data App
Flex), Power (BLU), Smtr Stor (Storwize), Sys x, Tech Comp (BgIns, Platf)
"#IBM Bolsters Cloud
Portf" (http://ow.ly/pE28V ) JK--New socbiz+mobile
SaaS svcs; SoftLayer-integ cld svcs; exprt integ sys 4 hybrd clds
"#BigData &
pred analytics: When is enuff data enuff?" (http://ow.ly/pDZJf )
JK--Short answer: when your #Hadoop cluster
screams "uncle"
"Predictive
policing" (http://ow.ly/pDZgz ) JK--Excellent
comprehensive report (free downloadable) from RAND Corp.
"Rschrs
Beat Drum 4 Quantum Comms" (http://ow.ly/pDXMP )
JK--Demo'd qtm entangle btwn motion o minuscule mechanicl drum & microwave
field
"‘Digital
Industrial Economy’ Combines Physical World & Virtual" (http://ow.ly/pDWea )
JK--Gartner's keen on the Internet of Things.
Cyberwarriors.
Are they required to run obstacle courses of browser pop-ups & phishing
lures in cyber-bootcamp? Easy to trip up.
"MDM
& Next-Gen Data Sources" (http://ow.ly/pDV3U )
JK--Aaron Zornes on identity resolution factoring in mobile, location, &
social data
Data
monetization? Manage data like a product, not a cash spigot (http://ow.ly/pDRru )
Wednesday #IBM
quick-hit
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Les Feuilles
Mortes by Monsieur Iggy le Pop from Preliminaires JK--2009. Magnifique!
Hadoop:
Is There a Metadata Mess Waiting in the Wings? By Robin Bloor http://bit.ly/1a9Vbax
#InsideAnalysis
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
Proven
strategies for #archiving
complex relational data. http://ibm.co/QSIr2N @QUESTUsersGroup
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
Do
we need a tax on space junk to keep GRAVITY from coming true? http://slate.me/1csl5eu
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
RT
@weusegadgets: Government
Shutdown Knocks U.S. Radio Telescopes Offline (http://dld.bz/cScNS )
JK--Universe goes even darker.
I
love when people say they reached out because they saw my "column on #bigdata."
That narrows it down. Good feedback. I'll do more of those
National
park animals unsure whether shutdown good or bad. They like not being hassled
by tourists. But crave daily fix of pic-a-nic baskets
"Mission:
Protocols to ease true cloud federation" (http://ow.ly/pC6Em )
JK--IEEE testbed project is mostly research organizations.
I
love tech discussions where somebody asks your opinion of some complex topic
and turns away 5 seconds into your response.
I
love legit commercial email solicits from biz strangers addressing biz
strangers as "hey guys." As if we all roomed together in college
"François
Englert & Peter Higgs Win Nobel Prize in Physics" (http://ow.ly/pBAVx )
JK--No surprise. CERN's #BigData
should've shared prize
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Trying to
Find a Home by Tindersticks JK--Stuart Staples (Tindersticks) & Matt
Berninger (The National). Same voice?
@BarryDevlin Sure. Predictive
analytics extends privacy impact of PII data at ANY scale, not just BIG scale.
@BarryDevlin I take issue w/article
assert that pred anlytcs "effectively manufacture personal data." Of
course not. Builds models from data
@BarryDevlin I didn't say the
article has no value. My feeling is that it would have had more value if they
kept the focus on big data.
@BarryDevlin So you feel that #bigdata and
predictive analytics are one and the same thing?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp All the Way
From Memphis by Mott the Hoople frm Mott JK--1973. Glam band's piano/sax attack
on this feels a bit Elton
RT
@rickygervais: "Could
anyone who talks to Jesus please let me know what accent he has?"
JK--Speaks Aramaic with a Judean accent.
@BarryDevlin You disagree that they
undermine their arg by blaming predictive analytics? Or that pred analytics has
been around for decades?
"Twitter's
Lucrative Data Mining Business" (http://ow.ly/pBuA7 )
JK--But ad business is far more lucrative.
"Facebook's
new Graph Search features create phishing wonderland (http://ow.ly/pBuo0 )
JK--Better visibility into what we've chosen2share
"Why
#bigdata has
made yr privacy thing of past" (http://ow.ly/pBtY5 )
JK--Weak argument. Subhead blames decades-old predictive analytics
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Driving
East, and Through Her by Case Studies from This Is Another Life JK--Me
tripping? Hear "Me+U+Dog Named Boo"
I'm
turned off when somebody praises some convenient sample of stuff they like as
"world's best" of whatever. Like you've surveyed the world
Internet
of Things? Monetizing the gadgets, apps, content, and cloud services (http://ow.ly/pBpRF )
Tuesday #IBM
quick-hit
People
who refuse to have kids vaccinated for MMR TB etc. Endanger society thru higher
infection rates. At what point should society mandate
Today
was richly drenched and moist and cool. Air has that woodsmoke perfume. Now
that's an October day. I feel better. Much better.
Google+
making progress. More of the people it says I "may know" I indeed do
know. Been a cavalcade of strangers till recently.
Changed
mind about voting in VA gov race. Will vote. Lukewarm on McAuliffe. But
shutdown convinced me TParty/Cockroachnelli must be stomped
Americans
starting to face the unthinkable: those Tea Party maniacs may force the country
into default. How to stop them?
Drafted
latest #IBM jk
blog: "Geospatial Analytics Transforming Brick-and-Mortar Retailing into a
Digital Experience"
My
Facebook newsfeed has come to resemble my Google+ view. Because I've
"liked" so many science/tech research-rich pages.
"Data
Scientists Create Code Of Prof Conduct" (http://ow.ly/pA1cC )
JK--Two-month-old nonprofit assn. See my blog: http://ow.ly/pA1pI
"Researchers
beef up flash mem w/protein" (http://ow.ly/pA0Gm )
JK--Peptides as superstruct binding dense semicond & resistive materials
"Real-Time
Analytics for the Healthcare Industry: Arrhythmia Detection" (http://ow.ly/pA03i )
JK--Machin-lrn ECG compar anlysis/categorzn
"Delsa
Workshop IV: Launching the Quantified Human Initiative" (http://ow.ly/pzZEu )
JK--Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance. Interesting
"Why
tablet magazines are a failure" (http://ow.ly/pzZhC )
JK--Disagree. I make heavy use of Google Currents on my Android tablet.
"Circle
of Trust & Google Plus" (http://ow.ly/pzXjr )
JK--Interesting viz. But I dont think "trust" accurate. Circle o
reprocal following
Local
classic-rock station played Skynyrd song I'd never heard before. Don't recall
name. Just glad theyre not "Free Bird" on endless repeat
A8:
#cxo Biz can
measure success at intelligent #CX by tracking
whether the predictive accuracy of #CEM models is
improving over time.
A8:
#cxo Biz can
measure success in driving intelligent #CX by tracking
retention, satisfaction, & sentiment data.
A7:
#cxo If you
don't have a unified accurate profile of who your customers are or what they
truly need, you can't engage intelligently.
A7
Self-serv check outs can often be the only point of human contact in an
experience. If so, time to rethink that weak strategy. #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7.
Increasingly, suspicion. Why do you want my data and what are you going to do
with it? Who else will get it? Big challenges. #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7:
#cxo Siloed
customer engagement channels--sales, support, marketing, etc.--impede
intelligent interaction. Lefthand/righthand discombob
A7
Collecting data w/o a strategy on how to use it makes #BigData
pointless – need the right tools to extract useful info #CXO
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7
Industries with distrustful reputations or notoriously convoluted processes
create barriers to intelligent customer experience. #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7:
Major challenge for biz is rapid profiling of customers’ behavior over multi
dimensions. Right tools and apps can alleviate #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7:
#cxo Lacking a
cadre of professional #CEM
specialists & data scientists can impede addressing the challenge head-on.
Recruit & train!
A7:
#cxo Business
can overcome #cem
-hostile culture by instlling from top down. CEO should be on frontlines
frequently, taking customer ire
A7:
#cxo Biggest
hurdle to intelligent customer interaction is usually a corporate culture that
doesn't really care about #cem.
A6:
#cxo
Self-service is increasingly becoming customer expectations across most
channels. If it's not there, you may lose some customers
A6:
#cxo
Self-service may help many customrs 2 get what need w/min muss/fuss. May hinder
if portals & other slf-svc platforms badly designed
A6:
#cxo Customers
differ widely in preferred #CX
modes. Many may prefer self-svc to human-assisted. Factor slf-svc into engagemt
options
A5:
#cxo Need the
ability of the business' human touchpoints to exercise situation-contextual
judgment to ensure decision appropriateness
A5:
Orgs need to understand their customers' behavior throughout the buying
lifecycle #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A4:
Biz should focus not on amount of customer data being collected but the quality
of the data being collected. Quality > quantity. #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A5
A strong chief customer officer will be able to influence formation of +
facilitate cross-disciplinary teams. #CXO #CX #CCO
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A5:
The first 'tool' is an intangible. It is the genuinely customer-centric
culture. #CXO
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A5:
#cxo Need to
incorporate continual feedback from customers into the ongoing design/tuning of
#cem interaction
optimization cross-chann
A5:
#cxo Need
subject-matter domain specialist analytics with #cem focus to work
collaboratively ongoing with #datascientists
A5:
#cxo Need
interaction optimization front-end multi-chann #CRM platform. Need
#bigdata
unstruct analytics. Need next best action back-end
A4:
#cxo If U reduce
amt of cust data U collect & ramp up the analytics, make sure U don't run
afoul of "intrusive marketing" sensitivities
A4:
#cxo Reducing
amount of customer data U collect doesnt always mean reducing analytics on what
U have. May make sense 2 ramp the latter.
A4:
#cxo There's
never hard/fast rule on data collection reduction. Factors such as compliance,
usage, storage constraints must B considered
A3:
#cxo Do regular
compliance audits of data collection & utilization to make sure
mandates/constraints haven't been breached.
A3:
#cxo Track what #BI cust-data
reports actually being used. Monitor what data sources/vars are used in adv
analytics models. Elim unused
A3:
#cxo To ensure
U're not collecting unnecessary data, you need 2 regularly ask users what they
need & track what they actually use
A2:
#cxo When
defining need for sourcing customer info, biz must always have privacy
sensititivities/regs in mind to guide decisions.
A2:
#cxo Defining
customer-data needs should not simply be sourcing from databases. Survey human
touchpoints (e.g., agents, sales) as well
A2:
#cxo Business
needs to determine which customer data sources are in its possession already
& need consol/correl8n vs. which to acquire
A2:
#cxo Business
should ask what exactly a "360-degree customer view" truly means:
transactional data, sentiment data, more?
A2:
#cxo Business
should ask what "degrees" (i.e., data sources, aggregations,
correlations) are missing from its "360-degree customer view"
A1:
#cxo Intelligent
experience is when the business powers its human touchpoints to achieve 1:1
conversational engagement with each customr
A1:
#cxo Intelligent
experience when the biz simplifies the customer's life across all channels
& throughout their "journey" of decisions
A1:
#cxo What's most
intelligent is for the business to cultivate deeply satisfying experience for
each customer.
A1:
#cxo An
intelligent customer experience is you, the biz, engaging with them in a
proactive, predictive, personalized, contextual way.
@IBMbigdata Thanks! Glad to be here.
Ready for #CXO.
#CXO I'm here! And
ready for #CXO
chat with @IBMbigdata & @BernardMarr on Creating an
Intelligent #CX http://bit.ly/199jcyd
Should
biz reduce amt of customer data they’re collecting? Join #CXO chat in 17 min
w/ @BernardMarr et moi et al to
discuss! #bigdata
"Wine
& alcohol analytics" (http://ow.ly/pzz2h ) JK--Discusses wine
market segmentation based on customer taste for diff alcohol levels
"Open-Source
Systems You May Have Taken for Granted (http://ow.ly/pzwik )
JK--OSS has long enough vintage & pervasivenss 2 B taken4grantd
"Data
Driven: The New Big Science" (http://ow.ly/pzuYb )
JK--Cites astrophysicist & #bigdata guru @kirkdborne
Bring
#NoSQL into #sharpfocus
for #integrating
#hybridenvironments
into a #unifiedarchitecture
http://ibmdatamag.com/?p=10151
by James Kobielus
Why
no two #industry
#observers
#define or #scope the #NoSQL space in
the same way http://ibmdatamag.com/?p=10151
by James Kobielus
How
#NoSQL is an #inchoate #productcategory
with #innovative
#approaches
to #database
#computing
http://ibmdatamag.com/?p=10151
by James Kobielus
"Hospital
Takes Own #BigData
Medicine" (http://ow.ly/pzrm3 ) JK--Personalized risk
assess of each new patient vs. similar past patients
"Delic8
Balance Btwn Intrnet Freedm & #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/pzoCF )
JK--"Any BD proj needs 2 B aware o risks o indiscrim colectd data"
"In
future when U commit crime th thing thatll hunt U down" (http://ow.ly/pzo1h )
JK--Awkward compared w/potential o aerial drone botcops
FB's
"similar to" recommendation algo has a few glitches. How is David
Beckham similar to the Harvard Business Review? Must be joke in there
New
#IBMDataMag
jk article: "Twisting the Kaleidoscope – Part 1" (http://ow.ly/pzfzb ).
Part 2 next week. Exploring #NoSQL
Crowdsourcing
#BigData
creativity? Smarts trump BgDt algos domain exptise p1: http://ow.ly/pz9mM
p2: http://ow.ly/pz9pX
Mon #IBM q-h
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Ride My
Arrow by Bill Callahan from Dream River JK--2013. I nominate Callahan for most
musical "unconventional" voice
One
of those Monday mornings when it takes the brain a few hours to emerge from a
happily work-free weekend fog.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Hallelujah
by Jeff Buckley from Grace JK--Never understood why a "baffled king"
would compose one. Confused/thwarted?
Awaiting
some much-needed rain today. Hope it doesn't come with never-needed flash
flooding. Bracing.
Have
never understood the appeal of tattoos. To me, they seem the opposite of
cosmetic surgery: uglification operations.
Best
to expect that every new cool experience is a one-off. Better that it occurred
at all than never . Expecting repeat diminishes memory.
I
use almost no apps on my smartphone, other than social media. The "there's
an app for that" saying doesn't move me. Most apps are crap.
@NeilRaden @RitaJKing Disambigu8n is a
sort/sifting process. Depending on domain, may be deterministic or
probabilistic. May use heuristics
