Curious
why we're supposed to marvel at myth o St Patrick driving snakes out o Ireland .
Burrowing serpents are good for soil. Eire
needs 'em
One
of most sobering aspects of looking through ancient biz cards from tech startups:
most of those firms are now either kaput or acquired
Remember
how folks were cool w/surveillance in Boston Marathon bombing aftermath? Likewise,
now w/Malaysia Airlines incident. Less so re NSA
Did
a pre-spring cleaning this morning down in my home office. I've collected 20+
years of biz cards. Dumped all but those with stories
Our
30th. Fun facts: 1) was also anniv of Liz & Dick's 1st nuptials & 2)
also met my honey on set of Hollywood
extravaganza we co-starred in
Several
weeks running, WashPost's Saturday letters-to-editor page has been publishing
anti-Beatles rants. My rebuttal? Stuff it, tin-ears!
What's
especially stressful is trying to remember all these stress-reduction tips
everybody keeps flooding the Internet with. UNCLE!!!!
RT
@simonlporter: IBM's new #PaaS platform is #BlueMix. Join
the beta (and survive the robot apocalypse): http://ibm.co/1gl0FRu #devops
HT
@BDataScientist > Bayesian
Search Models: http://flip.it/CvQd5 via @Rbloggers #Rstats #BigData #DataScience
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
The
Beauty of π (Pi) – An Iterative Calculation: http://bit.ly/OdlDv7 #abdsc via @analyticbridge
Retweeted by jameskobielus
Retweeted by jameskobielus
Facebook
inspires enterprises to use #BigData graph
searches: http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/2240215892/Facebook-inspires-enterprise-to-use-big-data-graph-searches …
#GraphMining
#DataMining
#LinkedData
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
Smarticle!
> #BigData
Counting - How To Count A Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/5/big-data-counting-how-to-count-a-billion-distinct-objects-us.html …
by @abramsm
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A
Survey of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for #DataMining
& #MachineLearning
in High-Variety #BigData:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2877
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
Malaysian
authorities should enlist enterprise IT specialists in the search. If we can
boil the Indian Ocean , plane might precipitate
out.
National
Pi Day. It's every American's patriotic duty to think & behave
irrationally. Oh wait, that's what got us into this mess. Never mind
"17
areas to benefit from #bigdata
analytics in next 10 years" (http://ow.ly/uAv6d )
JK--Great list of use cases & applications.
"#BigData &
Privacy: An Uneasy Face-Off For Government To Face" (http://ow.ly/uAuNe )
JK--Read for the discussion of research projects
"Is
Apache Spark the Next Big Thing in #BigData?"
(http://ow.ly/uAtA9 )
JK--Gear to coming era of all-in-memory streaming architectures
Social
media have nurtured a world culture that likes to be liked for liking to like
stuff.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Monkey Gone
to Heaven by Pixies from Doolittle JK--1989. "If the devil is 6 [sick 666]
then God is 7 [is Heaven]."
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Oh, Whisky!
by Jimi Goodwin from Odludek JK--2014. Voice of the Doves. I love this one.
This
wk #IBM q-hs: http://ow.ly/uAm6d
http://ow.ly/uAm7n
http://ow.ly/uAm80
http://ow.ly/uAm91
http://ow.ly/uAma7
#BigData
development? Don't understaff & overstretch your analytics development team
(http://ow.ly/uAlNc )
Friday #IBM
quick-hit
@BizIntelAnalyst No. It's a
put-on.
This
just in: Snowden says NSA knows where the Malaysia Airlines flight is and he has
documented proof.
Missing
Malaysia Airlines flight. No new facts since Day One. But that doesn't stop
cable news from reporting pure speculation as news. 24x7
New
#IBM jk blog:
"Using #bigdata
to tune the fusion of human physiology & machine physics" (http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/using-big-data-tune-fusion-human-physiology-and-machine-physics …)
"#IBM resrchr can
decipher personality from looking @ 200 o yr tweets" (http://ow.ly/uz0jj )
JK--Honed on Twtr & IBM internal social net
Quantum
uncertainty. I suspect it's God playing a shell game on us. We'll never see
what's under the momentum & position shells at same time
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Bread for
Brat by The Hidden Cameras from Age JK--2014. This group puts out gorgeously
orchestrated pop gems.
"Scaling
#BigData Mining
Infrastructure: Twitter Experience" (http://ow.ly/uyHA3 )
JK--Interesting one from SIGKDD Explorations journal
"5
things that'll remake #bigdata
in next 5 years" (http://ow.ly/uyA5o ) JK--Hdp as platform,
deep learning, quantified self, cloud, law
@ITAdvisorJD Apparently, you're
under the impression that your contacts speak for IBM.
@batess Apparently, you didn't actually
read my 140 characters.
"Real-Time
Acoustic Processing Has #BigData
Potential" (http://ow.ly/uyyM6 ) JK--ML analysis of
ambient audio to predict near-futures
It
can handle all data types, SQL & NoSQL, transactional & mixed analytics
workloads:AND is fast & simple: #IBMBLU http://bit.ly/bluspeed
U
do dat data? Yes indeed, dude, I indubitably do! Do U?
Biz
process optimization? Plugging a lean, mean analyzing machine into your
manufacturing operations (http://ow.ly/uxSP9 ) Thurs #IBM qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Heaven Knows
I'm Miserable Now by The Smiths from Hatful of Hollow JK--1984. In Morrissey
terms, "now" = "always."
I
always thought "Westerns" were wrongly named. Never far enough west.
Never saw Pacific Ocean . They were PMDs
(Plains Mountains Deserts).
Rumor
is that Christie will allow Tesla direct-sales in NJ only if owners forced to
let filling-station attendants pump their electricity.
Often
not better to challenge someone in the moment. Better to write a sharper point
of view. A whole thought, uninterrupted, in response
Another
crazy day. I begin and end each the same way. Clean desktop. I'm not one to let
stuff fester in my workspace.
A8:
#bigdatamgmt
#BigData #Analytics
integral cuz fraud doesn't announce itself. Must be discovered thru
mining/monitoring transaction data
A7:
At the end of the day by protecting the enterprise, this protects the integrity
of the brand #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7:
Brand is important, but there are also economic impacts. 3.7T lost to fraud
each year slows business expansion, jobs, etc. #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A7:
#bigdatamgmt
Counter #fraud
measures, when incorporated into brand's customer experience, signify sound
management. Brand confidence
A7:
#bigdatamgmt
Counter #fraud
= trusted brand: weeding out fraudsters & freeloaders who raise costs that
get passed onto legit customers
RT
@mt_marko: A6: IBM and other vendors
have built-in analytics capabilities in their SIEM products http://qub.me/
#BigDataMgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
@IanGertler It's a risk analysis:
risk of one terrorist slipping through vs. risk of millions of travelers
getting super-annoyed.
A6:
Visual representation can illustrate story behind data, and demonstrate
linkages that are not obvious between entities #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A6:
#bigdatamgmt
Need visual exploratory & statistical tools in anti-fraud to sort through
behavioral attribute data markers of fraud
A6:
Entity, content, investigative, predictive and other analytics capabilities can
addresses all phases of enterprise #fraud #bigdatamgmt
A6:
#bigdatamgmt
Predictive, graph, entity, & behavioral analytics are key to counter #fraud. Need
anti-fraud SMEs/tools in data science CoE
A5:
#bigdatamgmt
Can reduce fraud false-positives if enlist expert human judgment vetting
likely-frauds identified in data
A5:
#bigdatamgmt
Counter-fraud tactics must always weigh the risks of fraud against the risks of
customer churn/anger from false-positives
A5:
#bigdatamgmt
Reviewing alerts quality and create accuracy metrics
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A5:
#bigdatamgmt
Can never guarantee ZERO false alerts, Can reduce false-positives (but incr
risk) by define more stringent fraud critieria
A4:
Federal government is getting back 7.90 for every dollar of investigation spent
for Healthcare claim #fraud
#bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
RT
@knowlengr: #bigdatamgmt
Logging big part of detection / forensics. Amazon told r NYC Meetup their
biggest DB:= billing / performance...
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A4:
.@InfinityAuto reduced referral
of questionable claims 95% while processing legit claims to drive high client
satisfaction #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A4:
Orgs that take action to enhance their counter #fraud
capabilities retain their customer’s trust #BigDataMgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A3:
Give them a holistic view across the enterprise such that patterns and #fraud indicators
are more easily identified #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A3:
Incorporate the same counter #fraud tools
across departments that enable more secure information sharing #bigdatamgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A3:
Communication! Something that might not appear to be red flag for fraud for you
might be for IT. #bigdatamgmt
#security
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A3:
#bigdatamgmt
Siloed depts can fight fraud by collab on operational predictive models &
biz rules to spot & interdict fraud in time.
A3:
#bigdatamgmt
Siloed departments can fight fraud by pooling all customer profile, transaction,
and interaction data.
A3:
#bigdatamgmt
Siloed departments can fight fraud by consolidating customer data marts into an
enterprise data warehouse
A2:
#bigdatamgmt
In a #bigdata
sense, "grass-roots vigilance" = event mining, interactive
exploration, graph analysis.
A2:
#bigdatamgmt
Law enforcement teaches that fighting fraud is about unraveling a social
network, node by node, thru sleuthing.
A2:
#bigdatamgmt
Law enforcemt can teach that top-down surveill has limited effectiveness
against conspiracies. Need grass-roots vigilance
RT
@BobGriffin_PS A1: Smarter
system would recognize anomalies, patterns & entities that link a
transaction to previous #fraud
#BigDataMgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A1:
Here's an interesting article about balancing that challenge http://bit.ly/KfzL5z
#BigDataMgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
RT
@mitchderman A1: Here's an
interesting article about balancing that challenge http://bit.ly/KfzL5z
#BigDataMgmt
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A1:
#bigdatamgmt
If, in background, you continuously mine transaction/interaction data for fraud
markers, #custexp
needn't suffer.
A1:
#bigdatamgmt
Build checkpoints into business processes that flag events indicative of fraud.
Log/analyze those events in #bigdata
A1:
#bigdatamgmt
You need to leverage #bigdata
& refine behavioral graph models that point fraud rings for special
scrutiny.
"What
is #NoSQL and
how can it help my business?" (http://ow.ly/uvzzF )
JK--This overview is a keeper for tech professionals.
"Tips
4 Better #BigData
Presos" (http://ow.ly/uvyTo ) JK--Best "why
presos fail": "overconfidence in one’s ability as an awesome
analyst"
@loserboy It's nice to hear Mark
Kozelek "sell out" at least once in his career. I respect sell-outs
if they're listenable + insanely brazen
"Top
Ten Reason To 'Kaggle'" (http://ow.ly/uvxD4 ) JK--Good list, but he
actually lists 12 reasons. And title has single-plural mismatch
"Some
Useful Machine Learning Libraries" (http://ow.ly/uvxdz )
JK--Useful if you're a hardcore data scientist.
@loserboy Whew! Relieved. Depressive
grooves become him. But this is a cool track. I like the ballsiness of putting
in a Kenny G-like sax
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Ben's My
Friend by Sun Kil Moon from Benji JK--2014. This is Sun Kil Moon? Sounds sort
of happy. Wazzup?
"Interactive
Graphic: How Big Is #BigData?"
(http://ow.ly/uvv34 )
JK--Hmm. Per domain, plots data dimensionality against sample size
"Life
Cycle of Data Science Projects" (http://ow.ly/uvuFu )
JK--Good outline by Vincent Granville.
This
morning's blogosphere trawl on #bigdata is
slim on substance. Too many facile renamings & bogus "we discovered it
first" pronouncements
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Oh Lonesome
Me by M. Ward from Hold Time JK--2009. Peppy Don Gibson classic re-imagined as
heroin addict suicide note
Post
by @scharffc How Mobile Computing is
Enabling Personalized Learning http://ibm.co/N5ZA8H #IBMmobile
Experience
optimization? #BigData
framing th engagement with art & culture p1: http://ow.ly/uvey8
p2: http://ow.ly/uvezz
Wed #IBM qh
Good
day of chatting with analysts. Many of them I know from long back. Hope they
can contribute to #IBMDataMag
"Machine
learning in 10 pictures" (http://www.denizyuret.com/2014/02/machine-learning-in-5-pictures.html?m=1 …)
JK--From the POV of a data scientist.
RT
@Datamation: .@jameskobielus shares his
expertise about #bigdata
during our live hangout. http://bit.ly/BigDataHOA pic.twitter.com/ElKNI0FQ4k
How
do you fight fraud in a #BigData World?
Join #IBM and #IDC for the next #BigDataMgmt
chat on 3/12 at 12pm ET http://ibm.co/1gW89vV
Small
world. One o my new contributors to #IBMDataMag
once dated one o my favorite #KEXP DJs. Won't
say who dated who. But they're both cool
"Getty
makes 35M images embeddable to gather data, monetize usage" (http://ow.ly/utuWY )
JK--Free. Incl photog attrib + link 2 Getty site
Before
long, we'll stop calling it "machine data" and start referring to
"thing data." Feels inevitable.
Drafted
latest #IBM
blog: "Using #BigData
to tune the fusion of human physiology and machine physics"
Geospatial
analytics? Statistical lenses strip darkness from the distant cosmos (http://ow.ly/usHzm )
Tuesday #IBM
quick-hit
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp There She
Goes by The La's from The La's JK--1988. Love this original. Also love Sixpence
None the Richer's cover.
If
you look at photos of American men from the early 1970s from the head up, they
resemble American men from the 1870s. Shaggy mops & beards
Rewatching
"The Paper Chase" (1973). Still the most realistic college movie
ever. 5 years later: "Natl Lampoon's Animal House." The funniest
Don't
ever abbreviate "root cause analysis" to "root canal-ysis."
I'm just sayin'.
Cumberbatch:
especially cumbersome batch-processing job. Benedict: benediction U say before
hitting the "process" button. Please don't crash
Hmmm.
#kexp will be
at the center of my quick-hit for next Monday. A "recommendation
engines" theme. Why'd it take me this long?
RT
@wfuessler: A8. High performing #CFO known as the
'Performance Accelerator' are 2x likely to identify revenue growth
opportunities. #CXO
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A8:
#cxo Analytics
take #custexp
out of the "qualitative" initiatives into the quantitative.
Satisfaction as a measurable asset.
A8:
#cxo Analytics
help #CFO to
track hard-dollar KPIs on #custexp needed
to justify programs to CEO, Bd of Directors, & investors
A7:
#cxo Less
expensive in long run to retain customers than win back churned customers.
Improved #custexp
reduces churn.
A7:
#cxo
Implementing automated #CEM
next best action in multichannel equals handle more transactions/interactions
w/lower overhead
A7:
#cxo The
"money" nexus: better experience = more retained/acquired customers =
larger share of "pocket" = larger sales/rev
RT
@clearaction: A6: ROI of #CX is often in
savings: lower costs, shorter time, less waste due to better alignment to
customers #cxo
A6:
may sound lowtech - just use #BigData and
demonstrate correlation between repeat customers #cx investments and
profitability #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A6:
#cxo #CFO buy-in to #custexp
investments come from hard-dollar paybacks in churn reduction, sales/rev boost,
& cost control
A6:
#cxo Get #CFO buy-in into #custexp
investmts by stress "money" over "love" ROI metrics, per
this dude: http://bit.ly/1kb2g0N
A5:
#cxo Secure #Mobile #digital
channels enable anywhere/time/yone fin report+tracking. Accelerates closed-loop
biz-proc optimization
A5:
#cxo Digital
channels enable #CFO
org to automate real-time rollup/tracking of financial metrics from operations.
A5:
#cxo When used
B2E to streamline #CFO
fin reporting/analysis, digital channs squeeze manual costs/delay/errors from
process
Q4:
By funding digital strategies that maps their customer journey #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A4
If the CFO is providing org insights to support decisions by CMO COO CEO then
better than most enterprises. #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A4:
#cxo #CFO helps
prioritize the degree to which biz manages data 4 monetization purposes vs. #CXO multichann
mktg etc.
A4:
#cxo #CFO role in
transform #custexp
always indirect--eg, clarifies biz-perf metrics 2 B optimized in front- v.
back-office A/B tests
A3:
CFO must have laser focus on value creation and monetization #cxo
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A3
The power of the CFO to illustrate a story backed by financial data is business
advice. #CXO
Retweeted by jameskobielus
Retweeted by jameskobielus
A3:
#cxo If nothing
else, the #CFO
needs to provide the core/canonical fin perf analytics mart all LOB functions
rely on
A3:
#cxo #CFO needs to apply
the ROI "nasty stick" to help C-level prioritize disparate
customer-centric data/analytics initiatives
A3:
#cxo To elevate #CFO into provider
of #biz advice,
CFO needs to assist CEO in measure bottom-line contrib of cust engagemt
projects
A2:
RT @hammnick: Does yr biz have “make
it right” fund that empowers front line employs & managrs w/budget to
ensure over the top #cx?
#cxo
A2:
#cxo Most
important role of #CFO
in closing "customer expectation-execution" gap is ensuring biz has
funds to drive execution
A2:
#cxo #CFO needn't be a
jack of all trades. #CMO
#CIO #COO & other
peer execs all collab in closing expectation-execution gap
A1:
#cxo Customer as
core stakeholder means that churn & abandonment are most critical
showstopper business issues.
A1.
The Enterprise
must show customers & employees that they care and trying to think more
like a startup! Agility & Transparency! #CXO
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A1:
#cxo Companies
will begin to make it easier 4 customers to share prod/service feedback and
they will ACT on it!
Retweeted
by jameskobielus
A1:
#cxo Customers
have always been the core stakeholders. The value U render 2 them is paramount
reason 4 being in business.
A1:
#cxo Future of
enterprise will be much like past: if U don't keep customers uppermost, you'll
lose them. And you'll fail
A1:
#cxo Customer is
stakeholder. That means you're accountable to them--ie, U need to
explain/justify/report to them regularly
@IBMbigdata Happy to be pitching in
my thoughts on today's #CXO
tweetchat
Reading
GCarlin's posthumous autobio, you can't help noticing how intensely careerist
he was. Even his "hippie" metamorphosis was calculated
"What
Is #Hadoop
Exactly? A Cynic's Theory" (http://ow.ly/uqzGF )
JK--Eric Kavanagh asks what I've been asking since my Forrester days
New
#IBM jk #AnalyzingMedia
column: "Detecting the Signs of Drama and Drift in Customer Loyalty"
(http://ow.ly/uqy6a )
"Machine
Learning a Major Part of #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/uqx4u )
JK--"Crown jewel" in big data project. IBM
"Analytics
& Belief: Th Struggle 4 Truth" (http://ow.ly/uqwyQ )
JK--Cool epistemological dissection. Appeals to my inner philosophy geek
"Predictive
model used in air traffic cancellator" (http://ow.ly/uqvz5 ) JK--Nice
piece on OR (mathematical optimization) in data science
"Sometimes
outliers are real data" (http://ow.ly/uquI1 ) JK--When is outlier a
fluke vs. valid evidence of a deeper pattern to explore?
"Why
Apache Spark ...." (http://ow.ly/uqub5 ) JK--Ignore the hopeful
eager-beaver headline. Good informational article, nevertheless.
"Big
Data vs. the Data Warehouse" (http://ow.ly/uqtpH )
JK--Steve Miller dissects Bill Inmon's retro-defensive definitional turf-guarding
CountDwn
2 #CXO: The #CFO: Jack of all
trades http://ibm.co/MUadeq w/ @wfuessler et moi CU in 1 hr 20 mins! #custexp #finserv #cxpa
Pleasant
morning of invitation sending. I read as much as I write. Reaching out to
people that I read & value for thought leadership.
Healthcare
analytics? Sensing, mapping, & mining the mystery of the brain p1: http://ow.ly/uq7tT
p2: http://ow.ly/uq7vJ
Mon #IBM q-h
Just
saw somebody describe self on Twitter as author of a "fiction novel."
One of those retronyms, like "postal mail" or "acoustic
guitar"
It
was, for me, a relatively social-media-free weekend. By choice. Occasionally, I
get tired of seeing my own words.
What
is this "the new black" stuff all about, anyway? Some ingredient that
goes well with everything? How about a sense of perspective?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp On the Beach
by Neil Young from On the Beach JK--1974. One of his cool slow-burn songs.
Quiet, intense, brooding jam
Pointedly
NOT following moves of this latest yoga instructor. Seem calculated to cause
injury. The pits.
Made
up for the lost spring-ahead hour last night by dreaming I had slept an extra
hour. Virtually caught up on my Zs.
"Doonesbury
Flashback" now running the primitively drawn early-70s strips. Perhaps
Trudeau needs to retire the strip for good. Played out.
"The
Francis Effect"? So what!? Going to take a major shift in church policies
to close the cultural rift alienating the mainstream laity.
DC
NBC affiliate has "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory at the
news desk. That dude's tall. I've seen him at the airport.
Pleasant
enough Sunday morning. The usual light breakfast followed by moderate workout.
Did all the chores yesterday. Later? Nothing.
#IBM CEO Ginni
Rometty letter to investors: http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2013/chairmans-letter.html?cmp=ibmsocial&ct=chq&cr=annualreport&cm=h&ccy=us …
Good
night of reading, drinking wine, eating popcorn, lying on back. I don't watch
much TV anymore. Barely miss it.
Nice
to get out there and wash the cars. Removed three months of cold grimy slop.
Gleefully watched the snowpiles dissolve.
@odbmsorg Of course it's free. I never
pay a dime.
Everybody's
out in force, enjoying the mild weather. Never mind the ubiquitous puddles
& mud from snowmelt. A lamb-ish Saturday of shopping
Looking
for fresh #bigdata
thought leaders to become regular contributors to #IBMDataMag.
Inquire within (i.e message me for details)
Man,
I been wasting daylight all winter long. Glad we'll finally get around to
saving some for a while. Need 2 bank it again for next winter
