I
never do self-service at supermarket checkout. I prefer that they do the work.
Also, I always screw up. Asking for help defeats purpose.
It's
obvious the girls were cooking with garlic while I was gone. The smell
permeates the house. Not bad.
Join
#CXO chat Mon 12
ET: The "two left shoes" syndrome w/ yours truly & @jeanniecw http://ibm.co/1mKUFdV
#cxm #custexp #personalization
Regaled
my college-grad daughter with the painful tale of how long it took me to get
established in my career. I am one tiresome old fart.
Cable
surfing. Rather see GFieri devour another superfatty burger than see WBlitzer
sink his teeth into anothr world crisis. Nause8s me less
To
sum up this 10-day biz trip, I wrote 13 blogs amid speaking, conference-going,
customer-meeting, eating, & sleeping. I count qhs as blogs
Using
a laptop in economy class. One's own elbows press tightly into one's own
ribcage. Not ideal yoga posture, honestly.
Check
out @Jay_Henderson 's latest @SmarterPlanet blog on the
evolution of mobile marketing #mobility http://ibm.co/1fw6u3H
Even
better than my wake-up call in wee hours was turning on hotel-room TV and being
sandblasted with a spot-on rant by the gr8 Lewis Black
Good
west coast swing. I am exhausted. Drenching rain in SF on way to airport at
3:40am made me even more tired.
RT
@IBMbigdata: Join #CXOchat
"Two Left Shoes" w/ @jeanniecw
@jameskobielus @tmustacchio. Mon, 3 March, 12 ET http://ibm.co/1hm3t4M
New
#InfoWorld
#IBM jk column
"Machine learning floats all boats on #bigdata's
ocean" (http://www.infoworld.com/d/big-data/machine-learning-floats-all-boats-big-datas-ocean-237356 …)
RT
@IBM_InfoSphere: IBM earns a
leader position in Forrester Wave report evaluating #MDM vendors: http://ibm.co/1ju2nUY
#datagovernance
RT
@IBM_InfoSphere: New blog: If
big data and analytics exist in a silo, does the outcome matter? http://ibm.co/1bHYFqu
#dataintegration
RT
@IBM_InfoSphere: From sandbox
to massive scale: Getting it right the first time http://ibm.co/MtLMnW
@paulawilesigmon #dataintegration
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I Want to
Touch You by Catherine Wheel from Ferment JK--1992. This group had a
distinctive full-bodied rock rush.
I've
never understood the name "Donkey Kong." Shouldn't the computer game
be about getting Eeyore to kick over the Empire State
Building
This
week's #IBM
q-hs: http://ow.ly/u3I9g http://ow.ly/u3IaD
http://ow.ly/u3IcC
http://ow.ly/u3Ieb
http://ow.ly/u3IfA
Wkld-optmzd
sys? HPC now mostly #bigdata
analytics w/ growing emphasis .....(http://ow.ly/u3HIE ) Fri #IBM qh in adv. Fly
early tomorrow
Sexy
statistics? Distinguishing hidden (but real) patterns from those that R
real-seeming (but bogus) (http://ow.ly/u3GzZ ) Thurs #IBM qh
Note
to self: hotel room coffee much better than conference coffee--avoid temptation
to stay in bed all day--sleep would be futile.
"Data
Mining Group releases PMML v4.2" (http://ow.ly/u2OSa )
JK--Improved support 4 post-processing, model types, model elements, etc etc
"When
#bigdata
goes lean" (http://ow.ly/u2OEc ) JK--McKinsey explains
how manufacturers can use it to drive lean mean analyzin' machine!
"How
Big Should Your Digital Analytics Team Be?" (http://ow.ly/u2OsW )
JK--Really good break-out of the issues & requirements.
Contrary
2 popular belief, Stanford wasnt founded by a dude named Stan Ford. It's not
like Bob Jones University
"Stanford
scientists put free text-analysis tool on the web" (http://ow.ly/u2NGb )
JK--Easy Text Classification with Machine Learning.
Suggest
renaming #NoSQL
"DocKeyValGraph" for the principal approaches. Scratch that thought.
It'll get confused with Donkey Kong.
"NOAA
wants 2 turn its ocean o data into jobs" (http://ow.ly/u2Nge )
JK--Gr8, just gr8. Prepare 2B swept away in "data tsunami" metaphors
#BigData needs
more street cred. Thinking o writing blog calld "Pssst, hey bud, yeah
you...hey...big data....there's some bucks in it 4 ya!"
Been
a fairly news-packed February for #IBM, wouldn't ya
say?
"#IBM Challenges
Mobile Developrs 2 Bring Power o #Watson to Palm
o Hand" (http://ow.ly/u2MBK ) JK--IBM Watson Mobile
Developer Challenge
"#IBM Launches
Pay-As-You-Go Model 2 Quickly Get Clients on Cloud Storage" (http://ow.ly/u2MuD )
JK--New IBM Advanced System Placement
"Data
modeling for APIs. Part 4: Linked Data and SPARQL" (http://ow.ly/u2Mj9 )
JK--That Linking Open Data cloud graph is blowin' my mind!
No
free lunch? Easy solution: load up on free breakfast & free dinner--and
skip lunch. Wish all dilemmas were this easy.
Drafted
latest jk #IBMDataMag
column: "Using Geospatial Analytics to Save the Planet." Yes, I
remain "just another" contributor + EditrInChf
Being
famous is asymmetrical experience. Fellow IBM-er just chased me down in hall in
SF office, recognizing me. I had to ask his name.
Preso
went well @ RSA. Well-attended. Ingrati8d self w/audience @ outset:
"Pleasure 2 B here on a rainy day in drought-stricken California "
RT
@Akamai: "Everything is
interconnected intelligent instrumented in the cloud, creating an Internet of
things" - @jameskobielus @IBM #rsac
RT
@Akamai: "Is the #IOT too big,
diverse, pervasive and dynamic to secure comprehensively?" What do you
think? @jameskobielus @IBM #rsac
RT
@Akamai: "Everybody recognizes
that the first line of #IoT
security must be built into the things themselves" -@jameskobielus @IBM #rsac
RT
@ThingsExpo: “@Akamai: #BigData
repository IDs profiles metadata will prove essential 4 endpoint #IoT security @jameskobielus @IBM” #M2M
New
#IBM jk #Dataversity
column: "Mitigating the Disruption of Real-World Experiments" (http://ow.ly/u20II )
@IBMAnalytics Not on this
tweetchat. Speaking in just a moment at RSA Conference, San Francisco
@jg21 Thank you Jeremy!
Gamified
analytics? Brownie points for consumers who share their brand love (http://ow.ly/u1gQL )
Wednesday #IBM
quick-hit
My
favorite #KEXP
DJ is Larry Rose. He knows how to assemble a set of recordings that just
absolutely shines from beginning to end. A skill
Over
the years, primary university feeders of Peace Corps volunteers: UC-Berkeley,
UW-Madison, University
of Washington
Know
whose eventual passing I'll mourn? Wm Shatner. Anyone doubt that his public
persona these past 20+ years is his best performance ever?
Ummm,
how 2 put this tactfully?, SF has shocking number o homeless on streets
downtown. I have 2 run a derelict gantlet from hotel 2 Moscone
@KirkDBorne Kirk: an
"evangelist" is outward-facing thought-leadership marketing
professional. Not every company needs to be thought leader
"#BigData: The
Technologies You Need" (http://ow.ly/u091D ) JK--Interesting
hi-level characterization of diff #NoSQL approach
strengths
Trying
to think up a pejorative term for printing. "Data deforestation"?
Yeah, that's the ticket!
Advice
to tech presenters: don't spend lion's share of your time extending dumb
metaphors, then breeze thru the substantive literal details
RT
@StephenGiles followed @jameskobielus 4 bigdata notes,
but really diggin Dum Dum Girls after his reco. Thanks James! #serendipitousfollow
RT
@robinbloor: When I’m not in my
right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
RT
@JimGaffigan: How long is
everyone going to act like Swiss cheese doesn’t taste like a pencil eraser?
"IBM
Invests $1B to Deliver Unique PaaS Capabs to Connect Enterprise Data & Apps
to the Cloud" (http://ow.ly/tZpaI ) JK--BlueMix etc
"#IBM Infuses Power
Sys into SoftLayer" (http://ow.ly/tZol9 ) JK--Watson
sol'ns/PwrSys; SaaS/PwrSys (DB2/BLU, Cgns); IaaS/PS: bare metal
"#IBM Drives Cloud
Adoption Thru Ecosys" (http://ow.ly/tZnBf ) JK--Founding member
jQuery. Co-founder Cloud Foundry. Supports OASIS TOSCA
"AT&T
& #IBM
Simplify Cyber Security Mgmt" (http://ow.ly/tZncD )
JK--New joint svc combines sec net infra w/adv threat monitor+analytics
Postmodern
hype alert: all the things that've "changed everything" have
themselves been changed by th other things that "changed everything"
Editor-in-chief
role on #IBMDataMag
is in addition to my ongoing #IBM roles: #BigData
Evangelist & Sr Prog Dir, Prod Mktg, BigData Analytics
Healthcare
analytics? Tuning fusion of human physiology & machine physics p1: http://ow.ly/tYPxc
p2: http://ow.ly/tYPBr
Tues #IBM qh
@MarcioOnTW Thanks. We're looking for
YOUR best work. Contributions from data/analytics thought leaders eagerly
sought.
I'm
now Editor-In-Chief of #IBMDataMag.
2014 focus topics (http://ow.ly/tYF09 ). Looking for thought
leadership (http://ow.ly/tYF0a )
It's
been 10 years since I attended an RSA Security conference. Have never spoken at
one before. Interesting to be re-immersed in all this.
Metadata.
That's how Hollywood
would adapt the #bigdata
saga if they got Charlie Kaufman to write the screenplay.
Had
2 laugh this a.m when RSA panelist told anecdot o her parent stressing wot's
needed 2 "get into Harvard." She was at Stanford at th time
Not
a day goes by anymore when I'm not calld on 2 explain wot metadata is &
isnt. And why it's nothing new or sinister. Resource descriptors
"Using
#BigData
& Game Play 2 Improve Mental Fitness" (http://ow.ly/tXCZR )
JK--Use ML algos 2 keep U interested via personalizd feedback
"Why
Netflix Never Implemented Algorithm That Won The Netflix $1 Million
Challenge" (http://ow.ly/tXCLY ) JK--Too costly 2
productionize
"Qualitative
Analytics" (http://ow.ly/tXClo ) JK--"Analysis o
context behavior emotions & other factrs hard 2 digitiz w/out lose
meaning"
"Unsupervised
learning' and future of analytics" (http://ow.ly/tXBTA )
JK--Seth Grimes discusses its use in machine learning.
Walking
SF Mission Street .
Equal proportion of people talking to Siri vs. themselves
RT
@IBM: Starting now: @IBMcloud live press conference on
today's announcements. Watch here: http://bit.ly/NrRhnW #IBMPulse
Going
2 B 70-ish in SF today. But chilly in speaker lounge at Moscone West. Glad I
brought jacket. Remembering MTwain "coldest winter" crack
"DARPA
wants 2 autom8 #BigData
findngs 2 solv complic8d probs" (http://ow.ly/tWUKs )
JK--Big Mechanisms: gather/crunch all data on topics
"The
mainframe evolves into a new beast in the cloud era" (http://ow.ly/tWU5L )
JK--Platform for big jobs on #bigdata in
private clouds
"Integrating
Omic Data w/Patient Records 2 Improve Clinical Outcomes" (http://ow.ly/tWSEs )
JK--Interesting graph on "facts per decision"
IBM's
trying to get more into the hybrid cloud game with $1 billion. http://onforb.es/1eaXUpg
Caught
"closing security skills gap" panel at RSA. One panelist said should
hire nice people. Says people expect security pros 2 B nasty
RIP
Harold Ramis. Successful Hollywood comedy
director actor writer. SCTV co-founder. Cowrote "Natl Lampoon Animal
House." Funny nasal voice
It's
predicted to rain here on Wednesday in San
Francisco . California
badly needs it. I promise not to bitch about running through the rain
RSA
has many good sessions this week on #bigdata
security. Come to mine, Wed, 920-1020am, MoscWest Rm 3022. "BigData
Potential Securing IoT"
#ibmbigdata
continues its expansive ways with #Cloudant
acquisition. More portfolio extension, doubling down on document-store NoSQL.
RT
@nuodb: IBM investing billions in the #cloud, where
software, the lifeblood of its business, can "move and change faster.”...
Can't
believe RSA Security conference is NOT serving breakfast 4 attendees. I've
never been to an event that didn't. Need food not backpack
"#IBM to Acquire
Cloudant" (http://ow.ly/tW3O4 ) JK--Open cloud
database service helps orgs simplify mobile, web app & #BigData
developmt
Geospatial
analytics? Analytic surveillance in cause o resource stewrdshp p1: http://ow.ly/tW073
p2: http://ow.ly/tW0bw
Mon #IBM q-h
Drafted
next #IBM jk #AnalyzingMedia
column: "Detecting the Signs of Drama and Drift in Customer Loyalty"
"Think
Today's Data Is Big? Wait 10 Years" (http://ow.ly/tUIjL )
JK--"[Big Media] will...hasten arrival of exabyte-level storage
systems"
"Google
Data Powers Real-Time Deforestation Alarm System" (http://ow.ly/tUHGY )
JK--Remote sensing w/crowdsourced ground-lvl reporting
"How
much is #bigdata
compressible?" (http://ow.ly/tUHlr ) JK--Hmmm.
Thought-provoking theorem. Must study further/deeper. Hmmm.
"2
periodic tables 4 data scientists" (http://ow.ly/tUHcA )
JK--Not as hokey as it sounds. First: visualization methods. 2nd: algorithms
I'm
in San Francisco
for RSA Security Conference. I speak on Wednesday morning. "Big Data
Potential in Securing the Internet of Things."
