Friday, September 28, 2012

Koby IBM quick-hits May-September 2012


May 16
Information glut?

May 17
Sexy statistics?

May 18
Experience optimization?

May 21
Social sentiment as valuable market intelligence?

May 22
Smartphones as Big Data analytics platforms?

May 23

All in memory?

May 24
Petabytes in the palm of your hand?

May 25
Recommendation engines?

May 29
Experience optimization? Measure the love.

May 30
Smartphones as Big Data analytics platforms? If history is any precedent, yes.

May 31
Recommendation engines? Only as useful as the "next best model" powering it.

June 1
Hadoop uber-alles?

June 4
Sexy statistics? Machine learning is even sexier!

June 5
All in memory? Trades off volume and variety for the sake of velocity

June 6
Hadoop uber-alles? No, it's actually MapReduce uber-alles.

June 7
Social sentiment as valuable market intelligence? Only if sentiment correlates with buying behavior

June 8
Proofs of concept as core appliance acquisition approach?

June 11
Information glut? Next-gen analytics tools should make mincemeat out of it.

June 12
Proofs of concept as core appliance acquisition approach? Proving business value is a bit trickier.

June 13
Petabytes in the palm of your hand? The vast majority of what you cache will be your quantified life.

June 14
Recommendation engines? Federations of these will drive the interconnected global economy.

June 15
Crowdsourcing Big Data creativity?

June 18
Experience optimization? Optimize big outcomes, don't sweat small stuff.

June 19
Hadoop uber-alles? BI starting to ride the elephant.

June 20
Crowdsourcing Big Data creativity? The social side of data science

June 21
Proofs of concept as core appliance acquisition approach? TCO tough to demonstrate, but possible

June 22
Big Data's optimal deployment model?

June 25
Sexy statistics? Influence scores are dangerously addictive.

June 26
Hadoop uber-alles? Disappointed there's no grand vision for Hadoop evolution

June 27
Smartphones as Big Data analytics platforms? Gadgets are becoming valuable data sources

June 28
Big Data's optimal deployment model? Revisiting the 3-tier topology.

June 29
Frictionless sandboxes?

July 2
All in memory? Don't make RAM a data dumping ground!

July 3
Big Data's optimal deployment model? Whatever it is, virtualize it to a fare-ye-well!

July 4
none: holiday

July 5
none: vacation

July 6
none: vacation

July 9
none: vacation

July 10
none: vacation

July 11
Frictionless sandboxes? Real-world experimentation thrives in an elastic medium.

July 12
Sexy statistics? Big Data "scores" seem oddly misguided.

July 13
Advanced visualization?

July 16

Information glut? Don't kid yourself. You'd never tolerate the other extreme.

July 17
Advanced visualization? What's advanced is every possible visualization, or just one juicy one

July 18
Social sentiment as valuable market intelligence? Less valuable when your competitor has access equivalent to yours

July 19
Hadoop uber-alles? Then there should be a standard industry performance benchmark

July 20
Complex event processing?
July 23

Peta-governance?

July 24
Advanced visualization? Visual overload kills understanding

July 25
Prediction markets?

July 26
Frictionless sandboxes? Tight governance keeps the analytic sands in the box

July 27
NoSQL = no-disk?

July 30
Meaty metadata?

July 31
Proofs of concept as core appliance acquisition approach? Don't base your decision on splashy ads

August 1
Recommendation engines? Their primary fuel is behavioral analytics

August 2
Decision scientists?

August 3
Speed of thought?

August 6
Peta-governance? Controlling the explosion of Big Data models will prove difficult

August 7
Big Media?

August 8
Prediction markets? Markets won't succeed if offer no better predictions than in-house

August 9
Decision scientists? Game theory perspectives valuable in modeling next best actions

August 10
All in memory? Depends on what you mean by "all"

August 13
Enterprise content warehouse?

August 14
Big Data's optimal deployment model? Federation and its discontents

August 15
Business process optimization?

August 16
Big BI?

August 17
NoSQL = no-disk? Quantum computing in big data's future

August 20
Information glut? You don't need lots of data to do big data

August 21
Hadoop uber-alles? Cluster management tooling must keep up

August 22

Experience optimization? Down deep, it's not a big fancy formula.

August 23
Sexy statistics? Data warehousing simplicity is a surprisingly complex metric
August 24
Complex event processing? Conversation-driven human decisions are the most complex events of all

August 27
Petabytes in the palm of your hand? Advanced analytics apps for the masses

August 28
Big Media? Pattern recognition will drive the show

August 29
Social sentiment as valuable market intelligence? Help us choose the socials where our kindred chatter

August 30
Crowdsourcing Big Data creativity? Data science autodidacts will dominate

August 31
Business process optimization? Close the loop dynamically and continuously

September 3
No quick-hit: holiday

September 4
Workload-optimized systems? Consider workloads across the life cycle

September 5
Proofs of concept as core appliance acquisition approach? Integrated expertise patterns can facilitate POCs

September 6
Workload-optimized systems? Leverage the workload management tools integrated into systems

September 7
Big Data's optimal deployment model? Workload-optimized nodes everywhere

September 10
Peta-governance? Big data archive and sandbox in co-dependent governance relationship

September 11
Big data vision? Agile information management foundation

September 12
Healthcare analytics?

September 13
Big data vision? Every C-level exec has killer apps

September 14
Solution accelerators?

September 17
Simplified big data experience?  User sees business value quicker

September 18
Simplified big data experience?  Developer has integrated tooling

September 19
Simplified big data experience?  Database administrator has automated storage optimization

September 20
Simplified big data experience?  Support personnel have only one throat to choke

September 21
Simplified big data experience?  Procurement has less complex decision

September 24
Meaty metadata? Data scientist productivity depends on it

September 25
Smartphones as Big Data analytics platforms? Leaving digital breadcrumbs everywhere

September 26
Recommendation engines? Monetize your presence as social recommendation generator

September 27
Big BI? Data scientists most valuable on questions unaddressed by packaged models

September 28
Speed of thought? Real time is really relative to your decision/action cycle

Koby IBM blogs, articles, and podcasts April-September 2012


The V Monologues

Next Best Action in the Influence Economy

September 25, 2012

Data Scientist: Consider the Curriculum

September 18, 2012

Next Best Action Functionality Baked into Your Business Platform

September 11, 2012

Twitter Chat Preview: How Big Data is Changing Patient Care

September 10, 2012

Hadoop Cluster Management


Podcast: “Debunking Big Data myths

Data Scientist: Mastering the Methodology, Learning the Lingo

August 30, 2012

Next Best Action Back Inside Your Business

August 29, 2012

WEEK'S WORTH OF KOBY QUICK-HITS August 20-24 2012

August 24, 2012

Data Scientists: Credentialed or Otherwise

August 22, 2012

Next Best Action: Its Leading Synonyms and Trailing Cynicisms

August 22, 2012

Hadoop Myths Debunked

August 20, 2012

What Worries the CMO? Fathoming the Human Heart.

A Week of Koby's Quick Hits - Aug. 13-17

August 17, 2012

Next Best Action on the Streets of Your Town

August 16, 2012

Data Scientists: Explore Game Theory to Boost Customer Engagement

August 13, 2012

A Week of Koby's Quick Hits - Aug. 6-10

August 10, 2012

Big Data: Data Quality’s Best Friend? Part 2


Hadoop: Nucleus of the Next-Generation Big Data Warehouse

Big Data: Data Quality’s Best Friend? Part 1

Week's Worth of Koby Quick Hits: July 30 - August 3, 2012

August 06, 2012

Week's Worth of Koby Quick Hits: July 23-27, 2012

July 30, 2012

Another shot from the Koby side: Customer as Pantheon

Recap: Big Data: What Drives You and Where Do You Start?

July 25, 2012

Data Scientists: Bridge the Cultural Divide with BI Practitioners

July 24, 2012

Asking the Experts: James Kobielus on Big Data, BigInsights, and Hadoop

Week's Worth of Koby Quick Hits: July 16-20, 2012

July 23, 2012

Tweetchat Preview: Big Data – Where to Start

July 19, 2012

Next Best Action in the Ever-Virtualizing Physical Point of Sale

July 17, 2012

Week's Worth of Koby Quick Hits: July 2-13, 2012

July 16, 2012

Big Media: It’ll Make Big Data Look Like A Puny Pachyderm


Business Intelligence in the Hadoop Era

July 5, 2012

Data Scientists: Myths and Mathemagical Superpowers

June 29, 2012

Week's Worth of Koby Quick Hits: June 25-29, 2012

June 29, 2012

Make Turing Proud: Next Best Action in Multichannel Conversations

June 26, 2012

Week's Worth of Koby Quick Hits: June 18 - 22, 2012

June 22, 2012

More Big Data Mythbusting

June 21, 2012

Response: Top 5 Myths about Big Data

June 21, 2012

Week's Worth of Koby Quick-Hits June 11th - 15th, 2012

June 18, 2012

Data Scientists: Run Your Mad Experiments

June 18, 2012

What Skills are Essential for Big Data?

June 13, 2012

Week's Worth of Koby Quick-Hits June 4th - 8th, 2012

June 11, 2012

Next Best Action in Real Time: The True Test of Big Data

June 11, 2012

Reuse, Recycle, Compost: A New Level of Insight into Garbage

June 05, 2012

Week's Worth of Koby Quick-hits: May 28 to June 1 2012

June 04, 2012            

Data Scientists: Illuminate Your Patterns with Pictures

June 04, 2012

Week's Worth of Koby Quick-Hits May 21-25, 2012

May 29, 2012            

Next Best Action in Unprecedented Circumstances: When No One Truly Knows the Next Best Action

May 29, 2012            

Week's Worth of Koby Quick-Hits May 16th to 18th 2012

May 23, 2012


May 23, 2012

Data Scientists: Grow and Sustain a Center of Excellence

May 21, 2012            

Big Data Analytics Helps Researchers Drill Deeper into Multiple Sclerosis

May 14, 2012            

Next Best Action in Healthcare: Save & Improve Lives Through Applied Analytics

May 14, 2012

Data Scientists: How Big is Your Big Data Sandbox?

May 07, 2012

Next Best Action in a Smarter Planet: Think Global, Optimize Local

April 30, 2012
           

High Powered Profiling: Emerging Best Practice for Big Data

April 25, 2012

Big Data Analyst Crosses Over to the "Dark Side"? Hardly.

April 23, 2012

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Aweekstweets September 15-22 2012: the week I first visited Alberta



Panda Bear "Bros" (youtu.be/Dghh7QEwbJI) JK--Long trance track from Animal Collective's Noah Lennox "Person Pitch" LP a few yrs back


1h
Interestingly, Obama even has a strong lead in Wisconsin, the state that spawned Paul Ryan and retained that union-busting governor.

1h
@markseifert01 The only time a pen broke in a piece of my apparel was in the first business suit I ever bought for myself. Breastpocket.

1h
Long time coming. Downloaded Fleetwood Mac "Rumours." It was way too popular for its own good. It was way too good to remain unowned by me.

5h
Good week. Met plenty of #IBM customers in Alberta. Many industries. Hope we stimulated their thinking. IDC & Gartner analysts excellent.

8h
Lou Reed "Romeo Had Juliette" (bit.ly/RJGAOi) JK--Live performance in 2000. One of Lou's Lou-iest & very best spoken songs.

8h
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Police in Helicopter by John Holt JK--Laid-back Jamaican reggae herb-defense defiance song.

9h
@markseifert01 That "50 percent of the time" has never happened to me in my entire life of keeping pens in my pants pockets. I'm almost 54

12h
Shirt pocket protectors. Why didn't oldschool geeks put their pens in pants pockets? Afraid people'd think they were playing with selves?

14h
I don't think I'm the only moviegoer who confuses Paul Thomas Anderson with Wes Anderson. I give each director credit for other guy's films

14h
Telephotographic proof that Duchess of Cambridge has breasts. Whew! British monarchy is safe. Wife to the heir to the heir is adult female

15h
@EllieAsksWhy JimAsksWhy that's good. "Why good?"

via @TheOnion - Bobby Valentine: 'The Red Sox Suck Shit This Year And I Hate All My Players' onion.com/Qqa55p

So it turns out Romney paid an effective federal income tax rate of 14.1% last year. Shockingly average. I can see why he stonewalled. Putz.

@beyondthearc Cool. See you at #iod

"Big Data brings big academic opportunities" (bit.ly/RIyIqv) JK--Higher ed rapidly creating adv degree programs in #bigdata analytics

RT @beyondthearc Will you be speaking at #iod in Las Vegas next month? #ibm #bigdata JK--Yes I will. On the Thursday. You coming?

What's fairly clear is that the Alberta economy is booming and both cities are full of excitement & people making lotsa money. Good times.

My preference? I like both Alberta major cities. I am just a foreigner in your country. I take no sides. Honest, I don't.

Overhearing an Edmonton guy at the Edmonton airport saying Edmonton preferable to Calgary. I heard Calgarian tell the opposite story.

RT @doug_laney Great chat dinner & disoriented expedition thru largest mall in North America (Edmonton) w/IBM's #bigdata guru@jameskobielus

Finished next week's #IBM quick-hits at Edmonton International Airport, over a good venti cup of Starbucks Pike Place Roast.

Details for the terminal #Hadoop freak (linkd.in/NGqy5i). Hadoop version release numbers in reverse chronological order.


RT @kexpplaylist: #kexp Halah by Mazzy Star from She Hangs Brightly JK--1990. Good early-morning song. Warm soft vibe

Simplified big data experience? Procurement has less complex decision: bit.ly/S8Uljp Today's #IBM quick-hit

Simplified big data experience? Procurement has less complex decision: lnkd.in/V3WJXX

"Meet the New Boss: #Big Data" (on.wsj.com/S8TXS4) JK--Predictive models assist in identifying variables contributing to staff churn

Congrats Nats! Clinched an MLB playoff berth. First time for a Washington DC team since the year of FDR's first inaugural.

Had excellent dinner/chat with #Gartner analyst @doug_laney at eatery buried deep within sprawling, mammoth, bewildering West Edmonton Mall

"#IBM's Ginni Rometty looks ahead" (bit.ly/T8focZ) JK--Midwesterner started @ IBM in 1981 in Southfield MI office as systems engineer

"TechLines: Join Larry Dignan, NASA, Ford, #IBM & T-Mobile LIVE In NYC" (tek.io/P42IxN) JK--I'm a panelist. Can't wait!

@paulmadsen I suspect, but that would be a wonderful metric to gauge a "dead social" (with living and/or dead ex-socializers).

"PayPal chief scientist on # bigdata analytics" (bit.ly/OJGDD4) JK--"Human intel 4 targeting & recomms has been surpassd by machines"

Got my first opportunity, at #IBMbigf2012 Edmonton, to see #Gartneranalyst @doug_laney live. Dude definitely knows his #bigdata.

@doug_laney presenting #Gartner Analytic Ascendancy Model at#ibmbigf2012

@silverdata @doug_laney @DCorrigan Yes we are all present in this high-ceilinged chandelier-festooned Edmonton hotel meeting room

@doug_laney #gartner discussing various financial and non-financial information valuation models at #ibmbigf2012 Edmonton

@doug_laney #gartner discussing "Infonomics: econ theory of info as an asset class" at #ibmbigf2012 Edmonton

Getting ready to hear @doug_laney at #ibmbigf2012. I follow him &#IBM @DCorrigan. Edmonton

May sound morbid, but socials need a "possibly dead" rule that deactivates accounts when somebody hasn't logged in or posted in, say, a year

LinkedIn is slightly creeping me out. Just got a recommendation that I connect with someone whom I know died 3 years ago.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The World's Greatest by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy JK--I'll bet he's tired o people mistaking him for Bonnie Raitt. Or not

Simplified big data experience? Support personnel have only one throat to choke: bit.ly/Qo9Jtb Today's #IBM quick-hit

Simplified big data experience? Support personnel have only one throat to choke: lnkd.in/Ex3YtV

Cool. @jasonkobielus just accepted a supporting role on Gossip Boy, a web TV series. Which means I'll be linking to every episode he's in.

Critics rave about @jasonkobielus (bit.ly/Qo846Q). Hey producers, hire this actor. Um, yes, I'm a bit partial. He IS good, though.

If you notice, I include headline & a paraphrase of stories I tweet-link to, Then I self-digest on my blog. That extra effort preserves info

The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history" (bit.ly/Qo76Yv) JK--Linked-to-from-tweet info vanishes rapidly.

I put one of those "header" images in my Twitter profile (bit.ly/VeyJXe). My photo of jet trails over Kingstowne, our shopping area

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Spoonful by Howlin' Wolf from Howlin' Wolf / Moanin' in the Moonlight JK--That lovin' spoonful, w/out John Sebastian

lnkd.in/BsBd5g Hi, Tom. The crux of "instituting" is enforcing, with monitoring and sanctions. It goes without saying (but I'll...

lnkd.in/WMHy49 Good points, Tom. I got a deep dive on StackIQ last year when I was with Forrester. Are you coming to IBM...

When this campaign season ends, the one phrase that will always remind me of how stupid it got: "Chick-Fil-A"

"#Bigdata And Its Big Problems" (n.pr/OdobbL) JK--Love phrase "digital breadcrumbs" for micro-data we organically leave everywhere

"Finding the Optimal and the Almost-Optimal!" (bit.ly/OFK2sd) JK--Nitty-gritty hard work of business-practical data science modeling

"Numeric Measures for Association Rules" (bit.ly/OFJOBw) JK--Rules important to market basket analysis for next best offers

lnkd.in/gvPZTD That's right. What new this time around is Hadoop, which defines the industry's first open, extensible,...

Feist "I Feel It All" (bit.ly/OFIDlv) JK--Nova Scotia born, Calgary raised.

Joni Mitchell "Raised On Robbery" (bit.ly/OFIdf3) JK--Ft. Macleod, Alberta native. "A little money riding on the Maple Leafs."

Gordon Lightfoot "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (bit.ly/OFHCKi) JK--1967. Country's centennial year. As a North American, I can relate.

@KirkDBorne Do what you want. It's out there.

K.D. Lang "Constant Craving" (bit.ly/OFH8nq) JK--Edmonton native's 1992 crossover hit (from country to pop) from "Ingenue" LP

Much predictive analytics begins with speculative analytics (i.e., hypothesis building) that tests speculation via observational analytics

"Flash Memory in a Big Data World" (bit.ly/OFFRN7) JK--SSDs w/flash mem now competitive price re 15K HDDs in many storage arrays

lnkd.in/zdANWH Yes. For any business question, you need the right data, the right algorithms, the right variables, the right...

"#BigData and Refrigerators" (bit.ly/Uew9T6) JK--Bigger brains tend to clutter with more unnecessary, forgotten fodder that rots cold

"Of Brainiacs & Billionaires" (bit.ly/UeuXPx) JK--Top intellects will be top moneymakers in new world order? IMHO, that's bullshit

The Smothers Brothers on The Jack Paar Show (3-5-1965) (youtu.be/vOfcaDcI8es) JK--Tom, the elder, always played immature. Perfect

Many people say "big data" when just "data." Like Ed Sullivan's line: "we've got a really big show tonight." His shows were always same size

"The Digital You @ Work" (bit.ly/UepnwB) JK--Potential employrs assess yr influence on socials? Not relevnt 2 many jobs. To mine? Yes

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Tried to Hide by 13th Floor Elevators JK--1966. Slightly slower tempo,same sonic fingerprint as "Youre Gonna Miss Me"

"Engineers mine #bigdata 2 faster assess carbon footprints" (bit.ly/UemWua) JK--Calc 1000s o footprints in mins w/little manual input

@InfoMgmtExec Surely you jest! Mounds are better!

"Fixing Educ w/ #BigData: Turning Teachers into Data Scientists?" (onforb.es/UelQ1h) JK--Mine info for insights on perf & approaches

"Modern BI Architecture & Analytical Ecosystems" (bit.ly/UekJyM) JK--Excellent, valid #BigData topology for many enterprise use cases

"More Data Beats Better Algorithms — Or Does It?" (dthin.gs/UeiATE) JK--How about: right data, right algorithms, right variables?

Nice walk around downtown Edmonton. Weather is nice. Thought about very little. Just needed to stretch my legs & breathe northern air

lnkd.in/3rpWcC Here's a link to one of my recent LInkedIn discussion group posts on the subject of big data use cases:...

"The GPU "Sweet Spot" for #BigData" (bit.ly/QmZV5x) JK--Discusses work accelerating MapReduce/HPC processing on GPUs

"#BigData & Supply Chains." (bit.ly/QmZzf9) JK--@lcecere discusses supply chain visibility; supplier sensing; large-scale ERP; etc

lnkd.in/_QAxMG To work in #bigdata, you need the core range of "data scientist" skills that I described in this recent...

"Why Static Stinks" (ibm.co/QmYPqs) JK--Good #IBM@thomasdeutsch blog on dynamic interest profiling to drive personalized experience

"The Big Goal Behind All that Customer Data" (bit.ly/QmYzb5) JK--Discusses customer lifetime value & engaging influential customers

"Science of Analytics" (bit.ly/Rxw0UF) JK--Good overview o classic scientific process shaping biz-oriented data science best practice

"Data Analysts Seek 2 Make Social Media More Useful" (buswk.co/RxtaPK) JK--Discuss "Stinger": scal r-t opn-src shared-mem graf engine

Rick Moranis as Gerry Todd on SCTV (NBC 90-min shows) singing "Downtown" in Leduc, Alberta, near the airport (youtu.be/uyOuDGqHY1Q)

My furthest south in my life? Bali, Indonesia (a smidge south of the equator). I need to see the southern hemisphere some day.

Google tells me Edmonton is 53.5472° N latitude. The furthest north I've been on land in my life (not counting Great Circle flight routes)

Simplified big data experience? Database administrator has automated storage optimization: bit.ly/OF5bTp Today's #IBM quick-hit

Simplified big data experience? Database administrator has automated storage optimization: lnkd.in/_Cn2Es

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Railroad Track by Willy Moon from Railroad Track/Bang Bang 7" JK--New. Cool stomping, whistling, + sound FX.

Notion of "720-degree customer view" is interesting: traditional 360-degree portrait + 360 degrees of insight into experience & propensities

"Demand for Analytics Keeps Growing" (bit.ly/UddCXq) JK--Business analytics software market growing, as is #IBM share of it .

"Future #BI: The Era of Open or Saleable Data" (bit.ly/OZRU3u) JK--It's not business intelligence. It's the intelligence business.

Edmonton. This swath of the North Sasketchewan River is a pleasantly forested respite from endless flat prairie.

"TechLines panelist profile: NASA's Nicholas Skytland on #bigdataliteracy" (zd.net/QBr0iZ) JK--I'll also be on that CBSi panel Oct 4

"How Green is Your Data?" (bit.ly/QBqCBe) JK--Good practical discuss of how data quality contributes 2 business social responsibility

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Early Roman Kings by Bob Dylan from Tempest JK--Diddley or Waters get co-credit? Sounds "I'm a Man"/"Mannish Boy"

"Google reveals Spanner, DB tech can span planet" (zd.net/QBohWZ) JK--Scalable multi-version globaly distributd, synchronsly-replic8d

I too am entitled. For me it's the title "Sir Lord Evangelist of All the Big Data & Lasagna Mine Eyes Survey." Suck on that, Mitt.

Feels like Romney is determined to run the most lame-brained fact-deaf presidential campaign in US history.

Drafted my next original #IBM blog: "Next Best Action in the Influence Economy." Going to bed.

@infomart I'm evangelizing the (biz) Value, the Various (approaches), & the Very excellent #IBM offerings in #BigData. So, to A your Q, yes!

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Pay in Blood by Bob Dylan from Tempest JK--Brand new. Excellent. This master now sounds a bit like another: Tom Waits

linkd.in/Ua3xue Telcos have long relied on usage, traffic, and network data to assess quality of service (QoS)... @jameskobielus

John Belushi "Cheezburgah cheezburgah cheezburgah" (youtu.be/Y1tFx5xKrSI) JK--Chicago, like Detroit, has rich greasy culinary culture

Steve Miller Band "Livin' in the USA" (youtu.be/CFgwPnE_1_8) JK--Another red white n blue paean to this patriotic dairy-draped patty

Jimmy Buffett "Cheeseburger In Paradise" (youtu.be/OJi4bln-hHQ) JK--Today's National Cheeseburger Day in the US.

Winklevoss Twins getting into social networking biz. Highly exclusive social: limited to handsome identical Ivy League sore loser twin bros

RT @jameskobielus: Simplified big data experience? Developer has integrated tooling: bit.ly/RrDmsS Today's #IBM quick-hit

Simplified big data experience? Developer has integrated tooling:lnkd.in/mEApSA

Calgary is a cool Canadian city that reminds me a bit of both Houston (oil & gas) & Denver (new sources of energy). But diversified economy

Saw local Calgary service business with van that advertised "seismic data storage." Yes, there's black gold in them thar sands!

"Social now sucking eyeballs from search" (bit.ly/QXQR6Y) JK--I understand what they mean,but can they phrase it in non-zombie terms?

By popular demand, next #IBM #BigData Developer Day, Waltham MA, Oct 10. Register here: ibm.co/QXQ9q5. Other cities/dates in works

New #IBM jk blogpost: "Data Scientist: Consider the Curriculum" (ibm.co/PDUICO)

I keep getting Twtr DMs saying somebody making up shocking things about me. Where the juicy details? What's the deal with that Kobielus guy?

Excellent day in Calgary. Our #IBM #BigData Integration and Governance Forum had excellent attendance & Q&A. On to Edmonton!

@tomtomorrow Those GOP-ers rallying behind Mitt's miscues were the same trying to put a brave face on McCain's choice of Palin 4 years ago

@juliewstafford My wife, from the beginning of my career in IT, just told people I did "telecommunications." Now she just says "IBM." Easier

RT @mountain_goats: my morning was just chugging right along until I ran across the caption "Sarcophaga nodosa, a species of flesh fly"

Good day Calgary. Looking forward to discussing "From Data Warehouse Appliances 2 Enterprise Analytics" with you &ibm.co/Qisiz9 #IBM

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Fairest of the Seasons by Nico fromChelsea Girl JK--1967. Folk. Christa Paffgen was Germanic Marianne Faithfull

"Will #BigData Kill All But Biggest Retailers?" (bit.ly/U81FCf) JK--Interesting discussion of targeted personalized loyalty marketing

This French-language WW2 documentary is a hoot. Every minute they show map w/big black spider-like swastika crawling over blood-red Germany

Apparently, at some point in the distant past of my former life, I dubbed something "BI 3.0." I retract that. It's just "self-service BI."

Ah. Good walk in downtown Calgary. Good chicken curry at Milestone's on 8th Ave & Centre. Just what I needed 2 right my head. Me & Radiohead

It's still summer in southern Alberta, but I brought my bright red Canadian maple leaf jacket. Now for a stroll in downtown Calgary.

Thinking of doing my next original blog with title: "Next Best Action in the Influence Economy."

Occupy Wall Street, one year later. Remind me again: what was the fuss about? Excuse for urban squatting & camping?

Finished drafting the recap blog for the #IBMDataChat tweet chat I hosted last Wednesday. Been a busy several days.

@mikojava Here's the bottom line, Miko: I don't trust my own yoga self-analysis. I'd probably let pride & ego skew my interpretations.

Trying to explain what I do for a living to my extended family is a fruitless endeavor. You just have to do it & be it to understand it.

Lady at front desk says Calgary has more of "small town feel" than Edmonton. Calgary also has gleaming modern downtown. Looks big to me.

@mikojava Sure, but it's better to have an expert human trainer to examine your muscle tone, tension, posture, etc externally and guide you.

@freebalance Doing what everybody does on social is sort of the opposite of "eccentric" these days, don't you think.

@mikojava Yoga is advanced gut feel, not analytics. If you calibrate your every fiber according to the numbers but lose the feel, what then?

This is even funnier than that French condom commercial I tweeted about over the weekend (bit.ly/PLWQfr)

The Winklevoss Twins have returned. Why do I chuckle when I say, or even think, "Winklevoss"?

Cousin of mine calls my social media activity "self-aggrandizing." Huh? It's my job. It's marketing, BTW. Ever heard of humble marketing?

Yoga's my antidote 2 analytics. That's why w/all due respect I'll decline @mikojava advice 2 use "quantified self" (on.fb.me/SVuC53)

Doing the usual to unwind my head. Talking to myself. In earshot of the world.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Heaven or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins from Heaven or Las Vegas JK--They sing in English, but sounds foreign

RT @jameskobielus: Simplified big data experience? User sees business value quicker: bit.ly/Ptnis3 Today's #IBM jk quick-hit

Simplified big data experience? User sees business value quicker:lnkd.in/MNJqJ9

Calgary. Pleasant modern city on the edge of the plains. Look forward to presenting tomorrow at ibm.co/R6HO5L

Santorum says "smart people" will never be on side of lunatic far right wing. He is smart enough to realize that.

Now food can tell you how fresh it is. Let's build a #SmarterPlanet.#IBM pic.twitter.com/DoSC2QOM

Egidia's making soto, i.e., Indonesian chicken soup. Boy, do I love soto. Soto+sate: you see those delicious words on roadsigns across Java

NY Times Mag "Meh List" lost all credibility when it includes the Shins. You gotta be fucking kidding. My fave artist of the 2000s.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Phantom Limb by The Shins from Wincing the Night Away JK--2006. My fave song from their best album.

As US & rest of western hemisphere continue 2 boost oil production, Middle East will become, from our POV, just a nasty neighborhood 2 avoid

"Your friend [pretty woman I've never heard of] really wants you to join [fishy-sounding social I've never heard of]". I think not.

Caught a bit of SNL season opener last night before my 50-something brain slipped into slumber. Enjoyed puppet sketch & Frank Ocean.

Billy Joel album covers. Most are dull close-up photos of him. Then-wife CBrinkley did the only remotely artistic one. "River of Dreams"

Earned vs. owned media. Key GOP weakness is that so much of their "buzz" obviously comes from the latter. They're only fooling the fools.

NY Times Mag "Meh List" starting to fall on that same list, IMHO. Hot/not lists & kindred quickly lose relevance, encode questionable tastes

PSY, the South Korean "Gangnam Style" rapper, made cameo on SNL season opener last night. I'd be surprised doesn't sink back into obscurity

Don't understand these constant exhortations to "support our troops." We have a huge military budget that supports them quite well.

Why refer to one category of US govt employees as "serving their country" but not others? Must extend distinction to all federal workers

Curious when putting pants on one leg at a time became criterion of average joe. I sit down & pull them both on together. Abnormal?

Steely Dan "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (youtu.be/44f4LN7mgqQ) JK--From "Pretzel Logic." My fave of all theirs. Tight songcraft.

The Magnetic Fields "Papa Was a Rodeo" (youtu.be/8yZ50ptDpuQ) JK--Jaw-dropping boldness. Stephin Merritt outs himself in a song.

The Magnetic Fields "I Think I Need a New Heart" (youtu.be/zQOrLamT0n4) JK--Wonderful quick-step suggests Tin Man as lonesome cowpoke

The Magnetic Fields "Three-Way" (youtu.be/0PvW6T-Xmqw) JK--Totally boss hyper-fuzzed rock-jolt from "Distortion" LP a few years ago

The Beatles "Words of Love" (bit.ly/TYSPGN) JK--Fabs coulda been an awesome doo-wop group. Super-tight 3-part harmony on BHolly cover

Dion & The Belmonts "I Wonder Why" () JK--1958. Doo-wop that actually sez "wop-wop-wop-bop-bop"

The Del Vikings "Whispering Bells" (bit.ly/TYS6FL) JK--Sterling doo-wop had real feel of chiming bells. "Bring my baby back to me"

The Marcels "Blue Moon" (bit.ly/OsN9xS) JK--1961. I dont think this is how Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart intended it 2 B performed

Randy & the Rainbows "Denise" (bit.ly/OsMKf4) JK--1963. Tail-end of the doo-wop era. Black guys formed style that white kids adapted

The Hollywood Flames "Buzz Buzz Buzz" (bit.ly/OsMdts) JK--1957. A sheer adrenaline rush of a doo-wop classic.

The Rivingtons "Papa Oom Mow Mow" (bit.ly/OsLvwe) JK--1962. Doo-wop at its most gloriously athletic power-harmonizing.

Original footage with "oh the humanity" announcer of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 (bit.ly/OsKt3y)

French condom ad (bit.ly/OsK0ye) with the most cartoonishly pornographic animation I've ever seen. C'est magnifique et erotique!

"10 Strange Things About the Universe" (bit.ly/OQjNuP) JK--Any one of them is mind-blowing. Taken together....strong stuff!

Looking forward to discussing role of #bigdata in oil & gas industry at this week's Calgary & Edmonton forums (ibm.co/R6HO5L)

Blender physics simulations and more (bit.ly/S0hWah) JK--Beautiful dynamic visualizations.

"Spending Spree Keeps #IBM Ahead Of Competition In Software Services" (bit.ly/R6XXs4) JK--Thanks but no "spree." All deliberate speed

I'm slated to do a CBS Interactive panel in Manhattan (West Village) on October 4. Jerome L. Greene Performance Space (bit.ly/dbK8G)

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Manhattan by Cat Power from Sun JK--She inroduces new stylistic hooks on each LP. A protean talent.

"How Big is a Peta-, Exa-, Zetta-, Yotta-Byte" (bit.ly/R6QNnI) JK--Nets the magnitudes to stuff you know or can easily visualize.

You know what would help control obesity? If fastfood joints were required to price their fare at 1 cent per calorie. Market-based rationing

WashPost article mistakenly refers to one RC Cardinal as "country's top bishop." US has several Cardinals. All are same level below Pope