Friday, November 08, 2013

Aweekstweets November 1-8 2013: the week I blogged about wanting to use a 3-D printer to clone myself

Cold's setting in. Perfect time for the HVAC to break down. Researching replacements. Wearing layers.

@Sri_few_words The YARN article hasn't posted yet.

New jk #IBM #ITKE column: "Big science thrives on open reference data" (http://ow.ly/qE6n4 )

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Break Up by Charlie Rich from The Complete Singles Plus: The Sun Years 1958-1963 JK--Didn't realize he was rockabilly

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Way Out There by The Sons of the Pioneers JK--Vintage. Sounds like riding a wagon train on the Santa Fe Trail

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp All the Time by La Luz from It's Alive JK--These ladies have a cool lite-surf vibe.

"Connectria+Brightlight 2 Provide #IBM #Netezza Cloud Solution" (http://ow.ly/qDgHx ) JK--Monthly pay-as-go IBM PureData powrd by Netezza

Drafted my next #ITKnowledgeExchange #IBM blog: "Big Science Thrives on Open Reference Data"

Drafted latest #InfoWorld #IBM blog: "YARN unwinds #MapReduce's Grip on #Hadoop"

Drafted next week's #IBM blog: "Data Scientists: The Challenge of Managing Stubbornly Autonomous Experts"

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Shout Bamalama by Otis Redding from Dreams to Remember JK--Super-high-energy blood-rusher. Like a gone-mad club scene

"#IBM SmartCloud 4 Govt Receives FedRAMP Authorzn frm US Fed Gov" (http://ow.ly/qCUku ) JK--Achievd all current critical security authzns

"#IBM Unveils New Design Studio 2 Transform Way Clients Interact w/Software & Emerging Techs" (http://ow.ly/qCTVc ) JK--Austin TX.

"OLTP Clearly in #Hadoop Future Cutting Sez" (http://ow.ly/qCT2z ) JK--But waters it down: "possible 2 bring OLTP 2 this style o platfrm"

"#Hadoop as a Data Management Hub" (http://ow.ly/qCSl4 ) JK--Good post on Hadoop for data warehouse augmentation.

"How Many Data Scientists Does the World Really Need?" (http://ow.ly/qCRwJ ) JK--We could get by with just one. But God's not interested.

"The Changing Dynamics of Data Storage" (http://ow.ly/qCRfD ) JK--Good quantitative market research.

"Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem" (http://ow.ly/qCQKy ) JK--I'll be slightly kinder. Has a not-invented-here-in-the-Valley issue

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp My Sister by The Juliana Hatfield Three from Become What U Are JK--Love this. Emotional complexity of sibling rivalry

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Something's Rattling (Cowpoke) by Benjamin Gibbard from Former Lives JK--2012. Cover/adaptation o c&w song. Very nice

"James Kobielus, IBM Information on Demand 2013, theCUBE" (http://ow.ly/qCJEn ) JK--Video stream interview @ #IBMIOD by Furrier/Vellante

Arrived home from #ibmiod to a fallen-leaf-bestrewn yard. I know what's on my to-do list for the weekend. Good to be home.


Gamified analytics? Tipping disruption equation in your competitive favor p1: http://ow.ly/qCGF5  p2: http://ow.ly/qCGGX  Fri #IBM q-h

@ReadSoft Thanks! Glad you found them interesting. My way of wrapping my own head around the #ibmiod sprawl.


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Missing by Beck from Guero JK--2005. Great samba track from my favorite Beck LP.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Holding On For Life by Broken Bells from After The Disco JK--2013. Nice slice of soul frm James Mercer & Danger Mouse

Saw "Nebraska." Another fine one from Alexander Payne. Bruce Dern's return. Will Forte excellent in dramatic role.

"Predictive Models: A Marketer's Dilemma" (http://ow.ly/qBaTO ) JK--Good one on the art of predictive model selection.

"Computational Science & Recruiting" (http://ow.ly/qB9n7 ) JK--Are tomorrow's scientists favoring data sci over subj matter expertise?

"Jobs of the future belong to data scientists & user experience designers" (http://ow.ly/qB8Vs ) JK--There's an Internet of Things angle

IBM Evangelist @jameskobielus :"Get ready for lots of digital video that #streams in #realtime".. in vid (http://bit.ly/1asAvcb )

New #ibmiod jk blog: "My personal take-aways: Surfing the deeply informative IOD Hub" (http://ow.ly/qzhbv )

@ElyKahn Come to the #NoSQL meetup at 6pm in South Pacific A.

Just wrote all 5 of next week's quick-hits here in the press room at #ibmiod. I used a new strategy I've been mulling for a while.

Brilliant! One of the other people in the #ibmiod press room found the in-room control to turn off that blaring pop-radio music. Hallelujah!

@jakeporway Jake: thanks for contributing to a successful #ibmiod.

Drafted my #ibmiod Day 3 blog: "My personal take-away: surfing the deeply informative on-site IOD 2013 blogosphere." Will be posted soon.

New #ibmiod jk blog: "#IBM #PureData biz overview & roadmap discussion from Enzee Universe at IOD 2013" (http://ow.ly/qyOOV )

"French DataScale Project 2 Develop Synergies betwn #BigData & HPC" (http://ow.ly/qyobJ ) JK--Started June 2013. Partners incl rsrch labs

Serena Williams being interviewed live on mainstage now at #ibmiod: http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/IOD/2013/livestream …

"The Data Scientist at Work" (http://ow.ly/qyloD ) JK--Excellent detailed discussion of discovery process.

"How behavioural design can overcome dark side o #bigdata" (http://ow.ly/qykxm ) JK--Refers to uncover cognitive biases of interpretation

"What to Ask Your 'Numbers People'" (http://ow.ly/qyj7w ) JK--Ask about modeling assumptions, data distributions, significant outliers.

"When affairs save marriages" (http://ow.ly/qydpr ) JK--New lame excuse for philandering sleazebag husbands everywhere?

Sitting here in the blogger rows waiting for #ibmiod day 3 keynote. One of those Williams sisters. Serena, I think. I get them mixed up.

Some of the biggest names in the #Tech industry are at #IBMIOD. See what they have to say about #BigData & #analytics http://bit.ly/1b6bBBz 

#IBM is embarking on a new era of computing where systems can learn, reason, sense and predict http://bit.ly/HwmNP2  #IBMIOD

#BigData under control? The mathematical challenges o extreme scale (http://ow.ly/qxRo0  ) Thurs #IBM q-h in advance. Travel day tomorrow

Data-scientist skillsets? Challnge o managing stubbornly autonomous experts p1 http://ow.ly/qxQwu  p2 http://ow.ly/qxQyb  Wed #IBM q-h

McAuliffe wins Virginia gubernatorial race. BTW, Old Dominion's political center of gravity has shifted northward. That's all for the best.

New #ibmiod jk blog: "My personal passion: IBM IOD 2013 and the big buzz for data science" (http://ow.ly/qwZnW )


Great video interview by the Wikibon guys: John & Dave. Great video interview by Mark Brunelli of searchdatamanagement dot com. #ibmiod

"Next gen NoSQL: The demise of eventual consistency?" (http://ow.ly/qwLH3 ) JK--Can #NoSQL eventually pass the crucial ACID test?

"Data Science Project: Captcha Attack" (http://ow.ly/qwLdm ) JK--Will CAPTCHA survive coming era o ubiquitous inline image/OCR analytics?

"16 Reasons Data Scientists are Difficult to Manage" (http://ow.ly/qwL0i ) JK--Ignore this nonsense. Those are 16 stereotypes.

"Risk o Putting Knowledg in Hands o Machines" (http://ow.ly/qwKuf ) JK--Dont worry. U can burst in thru emrgncy airlock & disable his CPU

Drafted another #ibmiod blog: "#IBM PureData Business Overview and Roadmap Discussion from Enzee Universe at IOD 2013" Posts soon

"Made in #IBM Labs: New Data Discovery & Visualization Capabilities Help..." (http://ow.ly/qwrCV ) JK--Day 2 #ibmiod prod announcements

Drafted my next #ibmiod day 2 blog: "My personal passion: IBM IOD 2013 and the big buzz for data science". Up soon.

Jake Porway announces that, starting 2014, #IBM Information on Demand will be called "IBM Insight." Oct 26-31 2014 is next year's.

Speaker at #ibmiod on #bigdata 4 voter regis. Mentions that today's election day in many states. I voted absentee ballot in Virginia.

"Mining Data in High-Performance Sandbox" (http://ow.ly/qvVXk ) JK--Good overvu o data-sci sandboxing on #IBM PureData System 4 Analytics

Mike Rhodin discussing coming Concert & Project Neo at #ibmiod. Cloud services for collab analytics & data discovery. #SmartCloud. Very cool

Jake Porway is a good #ibmiod emcee. He explains #bigdata #analytics #datascience apps & value concretely. I met him 2 nights ago. Nice guy

"#IBM Expands #BigData Portfolio w/New Predictive Intel Software" (http://ow.ly/qvRAg ) JK--Product announcements from Day 1 #ibmiod

Sitting in blogger row (with wired Ethernet) for #ibmiod keynote. Still a sizeable crowd here on Day 2. Not too shabby.

#IBM BLU Acceleration for Cloud Early Access Preview (http://ow.ly/qvIsx ). Join the preview.

$4+ for a freakin black venti Starbucks? Gimme a break! Grabbing free breakfast Bayside at #ibmiod. All inclusive.

Analytic acceleration in th cloud? Social sentiment prediction drives #bigdata marketing applications (http://ow.ly/qvzTq ) Tues #IBM q-h

@MadaboutBI Good question. Actually, discussions of Kaggle during Q&A began to address that. I had a long list of Qs that we had no time for

New #ibmiod jk blog: "My personal cheatsheet: #IBM IOD 2013 day one announcements" (http://ow.ly/qvohq )

Was an intensely busy day at #ibmiod. I delivered preso, moderated panel, recorded 2 video interviews, wrote blog, engaged lots of #IBM-ers.

Annual #IBMIOD analyst dinner at Fleur is weirdly intensely satisfying. My former colleagues & competitors re-meet me in my #IBM context.

I ref'd this @TheOnion headline in my #IBMIOD preso re streaming vid web ads: "Violently Loud Ad Could Be Blasting From Any Of 35 Open Tabs"

Picciano announcing our new products now at #IBMIOD. Catch my rollup blog on these later today. Writing it now on the expo floor.

MyPOV:: Constellation sees IT budgets down 5 to 10% but tech spending is up 25% on the business side. #ibmiod.
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@graemeknows @jakeporway I don't think "tunnel" when I think #bigdata. I think "vortex" of 1s and 0s. Why? The letter "V," natch!

@alyswoodward Hi Alys. Zettabytes galore in my 10:15 #ibmiod preso on Big Media: streaming taking Big Data to an even bigger plateau

Backstage at #ibmiod - realtime translation in progress. pic.twitter.com/jwI8MU52Qw
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RT @tunvall: Lots of bass in the AM seems to be popular amongst vendors #ibmiod -- LOL!
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Enjoying #ibmiod MC @jakeporway. Good to see IBM & crew focus on how data is personal rather than on how it can drive server sales.
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Broadcasting #ibmiod keynotes live at http://siliconangle.tv  - we go live w/guests on #theCUBE at 10AM PT
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#IBMIOD "Big" means expansive and touches everyone
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Interesting graph on how twitter can track flu activity #ibmiod pic.twitter.com/14XjsaFTy5
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Some of the things that are so easy for people in this room are transformative for people w/o those skills. - @jakeporway #ibmiod
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Fitting that #ibmiod keynote is stats-heavy, great graphics and new insights. Examples of good in data (Big? it doesn’t matter. It’s data.)
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Please turn the volume down in the Mandalay Bay Event center at #IBMIOD. WE'RE GOING DEAF!!!!!!!

RT @graemeknows: Having way too much fun watching @jameskobielus get green screened here in the #ibmiod Cnnctd Lounge pic.twitter.com/6BiiERnk56

"Understanding the Difference Between 'Human Smart' and 'Computer Smart'" (http://ow.ly/qtjXi ) JK--Interesting discussion of cognition

"#BigData's Little Details" (http://ow.ly/qtjwW ) JK--Companies who havent managed structured data well may flounder w/unstructrd as well

"Predictive Analytics: Man v. Machine Competition" (http://ow.ly/qtjec ) JK--Need Turing test of cognitive computing? Brain v. bot?

"Data Mining: The Fear Factor" (http://ow.ly/qtiAp ) JK--The fear of failing to use it effectively in business--and of rivals not failing

"NSA Accumulo data store has strict limits on who can see data" (http://ow.ly/qtibK ) JK--Role-bsd acc control integral 2 its architcture

Workload-optimzd systems? Tuning apps across distrib hybrid #bigdata envs p1: http://ow.ly/qt3xJ  p2: http://ow.ly/qt3Ko  Mon #IBM q-h

Cool to be approached by fans at #IBMIOD who read my daily thought leadership quickhits. I'd do it all even if nobody read. I speak to me

"The Next #BigData Frontier: Your Every Cursor Move" (http://ow.ly/qrYap ) JK--Behavioral interest analytics bsd on web browsing behavior

"New IDC Research shows Impact of #BigData on #HPC Systems" (http://ow.ly/qrXY2 ) JK--Proportion employing co-proc in HPC tripled 2011-13

@dmedri I don't know. I'll write it up from memory.

@adamson I'll write a blog recapping the Data Scientist panel I'm moderating at #IBMIOD

Afternoon #Enzee at #IBMIOD. IBM's @nancykoppdw, Phil Francisco, Adam Ronthal, Janice Shinesman to speak. #PureData #Netezza business update

#IBMIOD #BigData Analytics Edcon. Dr. Jeff Pittges, Assoc Prof, Radford U. "Teaching BD Mgt & Anlytx w/ Serious Games." Excellent exercises!

Attending #BigData & Analytics EdCon at #IBMIOD. Higher ed focus. Defining curricula for future data scientists. "Rethinking Data Education"

Paul McCartney "Alligator" (http://ow.ly/qro39 ) JK--2013. "New" song. Would have been a stand-out on any of his 70s blockbuster solo LPs

Brainstorming can be useful. But it's better to nurture an active weather system for idea creation. A steady drip-drip o creative thinking

Expert Panel Debate: Data Scientist: New Role or Relabeled Title? I moderate tomorrow #ibmiod #datascientist #bigdata http://ibm.co/1aJnCyF 

#KEXP DJs still playing Lou Reed songs almost a week after his death. Longer than after most rockstar deaths. As befits his huge influence

Going out for a walk. And a bite. It's Vegas. Mostly, just going out to gawk. Walk and gawk.

I'm going to #ibmiod are YOU? Be there or be square!
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Airlines connecting me to Las Vegas via LAX. Weird to be here a day after yesterday. Calm now. Sad.

Rewatched "2001: A Space Odyssey" on flight. Time dilation, visual composition, soundtrak intensification. Kubrick masterpiece mesmerizes

RT @Thomas_L_Hughes: IBM's Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting uses #bigdata analytics 2 predict avail o rnwbl energy http://ht.ly/nQYmY 

Ledges. Did old urban zoning ordinances require suicide platforms on buildings over a certain height?

WashPost now duly disclaiming in articles that its owner founded Amazon. Waiting 4 day errant copyeditor indicates Bezos founded rainforest

Every time a hi-profile violent crime occurs, Twitter news establishment becomes Rumor Central & Twitter news followers become Omigod Squad.

1st time I became aware of Cuccinelli was when as Atty Genl he tried 2 deny UVa prof tenure cuz did global warming rsrch. Made up mind then

I love Lou Reed's answer to Australian interviewers in 1974 who asked what he does with money from album sales. "I buy drugs."

RT @VanessaAlvarez1: “@Mad: This boy is 22 years old. If you know who he is then you are officially old pic.twitter.com/djYW6TKzHr”<#Nirvana

"Cracklin' Rose you're a store-bought woman"? Neil Diamond either has the worst pickup lines or wrote that in a brothel.

Every caller into Delilah's radio show describes beloved as "best in world." I propose an Olympic loveydovey competition to settle th matter

It's about time! I do my best computing during takeoff & landing. The old regulation put a major crimp in my productivity.

I'm just a cog in a cognitive machine.

At #IBMIOD, I'll do a preso, a panel, a meetup, at least 3 blogs, several analyst 1:1s, several press interviews, and plenty of coffee.

RT @Leslie_Annie: If her avi is most gorgeous woman you've ever seen, yet she has no other pics of herself, she's probably a large dude.

Friday, November 01, 2013

Aweekstweets October 26 to November 1 2013: the week old Lou turned that universal blue

"Cognitive Mining" (http://ow.ly/qpqI1 ) JK--Provocative concept. Cognitive computing as interactive learning accelerator 4 human experts

24m
"Sizing Up Data 4 CRM" (http://ow.ly/qpowD ) JK--360-degree view dimensions: data contxt, data connections, data resolution, data density

34m
"Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information" (http://ow.ly/qpn8e ) JK--Links to free McKinsey report

43m
Many will bail rather than fail. But the best know you must stay in to win.

57m
"5 World Problems Too Big 4 #BigData" (http://ow.ly/qpjd9 ) JK--Nonsense. Not too big 4 human ingenuity. Smart people use any tool @ hand

1h
I like the fact that "wonk" is "know" backwards. If you're a true wonk, you know your topic backwards and forwards.

1h
"Fail faster"? I prefer "know better learn faster" (http://ow.ly/qpi3M ) from Fairfax County native Thao Nguyen. #BigDataBytes

1h
"The Data Economy Manifesto" (http://bit.ly/1bJYAO1 ) JK--Interesting POV from @jeffreyjkelly. See my recent q-h: http://linkd.in/1bJYCp8 

1h
Looking forward to what @jeffreyfkelly & @stu from Wikibon have to report from #strataconf & #hadoop world on today's #bigdatabytes.

1h
Watch @jeffreyjkelly & @stu discuss Big Data Week, preview #ibmiod. 10 min to live videochat. Watch http://ibm.co/BDBytes  #BigDataBytes
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1h
"#Hadoop & #BigData 'Stratafied'" (http://ow.ly/qpcNp ) JK--Beyond MapReduce. Into in-mem & machine learning.

1h
"U.S. Joins Global Effort On Open Data" (http://ow.ly/qpc2H ) JK--UK-based Open Data Institute. Internatl open data net. Priv & pub orgs

5h
“2014: Year of #BigData Applications"? Watch today's #IBM #BigDataBytes videochat, 2pm (EDT), w/ @jeffreykelly @stu http://ibm.co/BDBytes .

5h
Getting every detail locked down 4 #ibmiod next wk in LV. "Locked down" a relative thing, such complex event. Adjustments on fly inevitable

5h
New #IBM jk blog: "Cognitive Computing: Relevant at all Speeds, Scales and Scopes of Thought" (http://ow.ly/qoxx5 )

6h
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp GMF by John Grant from Live on KEXP from Iceland Airwaves 2013 JK--Such a great song. Why's this Yankee in Reykjavik?

6h

6h
Google's barge. Why does that sound ominous?

6h
Big Science? Thriving on big, open, reference data (http://ow.ly/qorvx ) Friday #IBM quick-hit

7h
"2001: A Space Odyssey"? Good, but it could have used a few bug-eyed monsters.

7h
Chris Christie should make Kris Kristofferson his running mate in 2016. Just because.

7h
RT @BradBennett: "Do You Have a Bias for Action? (http://bit.ly/16RpupG ) JK--Euphemism for "impatient"?

17h
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Blood Red And Goin' Down by Tanya Tucker from What's Your Mama's Name JK--This lady sang with tough sexy authenticity

17h
Don Slack plays the best oldschool C&W on #kexp "Swingin' Doors." One awesome well-sung well-played full-of-feeling song after another.

17h
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Blizzard by Jim Reeves from Th Essential Jim Reeves JK--1960. Beautifully captures th feel of trudging to comfort

18h
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Riders in the Sky by Vaughn Monroe from Stampede! JK--1949. Kinda makes U want 2 ride the range & learn how to lasso

18h
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Titoli by Ennio Morricone from The Ennio Morricone Anthology JK--1964. From "Fistful of Dollars."

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Phantom Limb by The Shins from Wincing the Night Away JK--2007. My very favorite song from the Shins' very best LP.

Just drafted quick-hits for all 5 days next week. Yes, I'll be doing it while doing #ibmiod. And writing the following week's while there.

Intelligence also traditionally requires a pulse. But Turing wasn't suggesting plugging in an electrocardiogram.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Some Kinda Love by The Velvet Underground from their 3rd LP JK--Lou goes deep into a quiet, intense blues-folk vibe.

A5: #P4SPchat U dont hav 2 believ in "singularity" or any such hoohah 2 recog that cogn sys will some day advise/inform every human decision

RT @SmarterPlanet: RT @stevehamm31 A5: Computer visionary Licklider predicted man-machine symbiosis in 1960 http://bit.ly/2l2E39  #P4SPchat
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RT @stevehamm31 A5:Re collaboration. Interesting findings at #MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. http://ibm.co/1a9KJBI  #P4SPchat
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A5: Some #MIT studies involve crowdsourcing, with computer agents in the crowd. http://bit.ly/1aRIqk4  #P4SPchat
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A5: #P4SPchat Humans develop algos/modls powering cogn systems; evaluate/adjust behavior of cogn sys; feed data 2 cogn sys; & consume output

A4: #P4SPchat @randal_olson Disagree. That's "Turing test not proving consciousness." Intelligence/intuition not same thing as consciousness

A4: #P4SPchat What's "intuition" but fuzzily predictive hunches that proved true? What if machines mill these hunches w/out fail? Intuition?

A4: #P4SPchat Here's "Turing test" for cognitive system creativity: can humans be fooled into thinking a machine creation from human artist?

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A4: #P4SPchat @bobtomato28 Humans are sensors and actuators for cognitive machines, plus are cognitive "agents" in their own right. Partners

An interesting view that we become sophisticated "sensors" for cognitive machines #P4SPchat
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#P4SPChat A4: Interesting MIT white paper about possibility of computer creativity and intuition http://bit.ly/16OiyJZ 
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RT @stevehamm31: A4: Humans and machines will create together. Example: #IBM work with ICE cooking school on recipes #P4SPchat
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A4: #P4SPchat Living brain's intuition & creativity are emergent phenom from mind/body's overall sensemaking. Machine/human I/F can amplify

A3: #P4SPchat U might think of sys v. human as central vs. periph nervous sys in distrib cogn computing arch. We are eyes, ears, touch, act

A3: #P4SPchat Brain connected to entire body via peripheral nervous sys. Cognition leverages extraordinarily efficient sensemaking apparatus

A3: #P4SPchat Computing systems leverage massive parallelism & agile analytics to emulate hyperconnected fabric of central nervous system.

Wow! RT @DharmendraModha A3: Human brain consumes 20W – same computation on today’s computers would require a nuclear power plant! #P4SPchat
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A3: #P4SPchat Computing sys emulates but evolution endowed living brains w/super-powerful/agile processing in compact, energy efficient form

A2: #P4SPchat Cognitive computing is the convergence of #HPC and #bigdata in service of human knowledge augmentation.

A2: Imagine a new era of cognitive computing where neurosynaptic chips become essential to the world. #P4SPchat
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A2: Imagine tiny object/event specific recognition appliances for fire, traffic. http://bit.ly/1h1ik6Q  #P4SPchat
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A2: Imagine sensing the environment with sight, sound, and smell powered by solar. http://bit.ly/Hv5NrL  #P4SPchat
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@SmarterPlanet A2: acting as advisor to anyone who cannot possibly absorb all knowledge, insight to make optimal decision #P4SPchat
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A2: Imagine a rolling search-rescue robot - dynamically switchable cameras and inertial “vestibular” system http://bit.ly/19TdZwi  #P4SPchat
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A2: Some #cognitivecomputing app concepts that @DharmendraModha + team came up with: http://bit.ly/136krgL  #P4SPchat
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A2: #P4SPchat Cognitive computing enables humans to query a massive, dynamic knowledge corpus with extraordinary agilty. #Watson

A2: #P4SPchat Cognitive computing radically acceler8s "slow cognition" per Daniel Kahneman; my recent LinkedIn post: http://linkd.in/1f69MqU 

A2: #P4SPchat Cognitive computing's major apps include natural language processing, sentiment analysis, pattern recognition, & signal intel

A1: #P4SPchat Cognitive computing enables machines and humans to accel each other's learning, per my recent article http://bit.ly/1f69ccF 

A1: #P4SPchat Cognitive computing takes AI into the era of #bigdata, decision automation, and service-oriented virtualization.

A1: #P4SPchat Cognitive computing can learn from new data rather than rely 100% on apriori knowledge of data models, schema & semantics

A1: #P4SPchat Cognitive computing can auto-distill sense/signals from new, unfamiliar data sources without supervision or training.

A1: #P4SPchat What's new & different about cognitive systems is they drive machine learning on unstructured #bigdata into operational apps

Ready to start the #P4SPchat .

Cool guitar give-away contest at #ibmiod. Details in this blog: http://ow.ly/qmEQt  . Rock it!

RT @SmarterPlanet Can cognitive systems help addrss #BigData challenge? Pls join discussion #P4SPchat 10-31 12noon ET http://bit.ly/16PDOtJ 

At 12noon (EDT) I participate in #IBM #P4SPchat on "Cognitive Computing." Please join in and tweet smart.

RT @DCorrigan More than 100 sessions & activities focused on Info Integ & Gov of #bigdata at #ibmiod next week--so many choices! #bigdatagov

"#BigData University Surpasses 100,000 members!" (http://ow.ly/qmbMQ ) JK--#IBM program is go-to site 4 data scientist education+training

RT @nprnews ESnowden Has Job At Russian Website, Lawyer Sez http://n.pr/1dStfxB  JK--I'm sure he'll safeguard their intellectual property

"Gaming Industry Turns 2 #BigData 2 Improve Gaming Experience" (http://ow.ly/qma9U ) JK--Stream computg, graph models, sentiment analysis

"#Hadoop 2.0 Makes #BigData Even More Accessible" (http://ow.ly/qm9Vh ) JK--Good graphic showing YARN overview.

"Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook" (http://ow.ly/qm96z ) JK--Graph models can infer who you're sleeping with.

"Data Mining of Informational Stream in Social Networks" (http://ow.ly/qm82c ) JK--Interesting slideshow of Twitter semantic graphs.

"Intel's Futurist: We'll Soon Be Living In Computers (http://ow.ly/qm7o0 ) JK--Really? None o our customers has taken up residence in one

Wouldn't it be ironic if we discover the universe is just God's belly, and that astronomy is essentially cosmic gastronomy?

Healthcare analytics? Computational omics accelerate the life-sciences exploration metabolism (http://ow.ly/qm6PD ) Thurs #IBM quick-hit

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon from Excitable Boy JK--I always wait for the last line: "His hair was perfect."

Roger Daltrey performs "Stand By Me"/"Wont Get Fooled Again" honoring Churchill bust at US Capitol. Wot? Beatles wont license "Hey Bulldog"?

It's better to focus on yourself originating stuff than on yourself originating original stuff. Better to pump it out, let others decide.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Night Time Is the Right Time by The Sonics JK--1965. Amazing! Only time I've heard somebody do a Ray better than Ray

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Rock and Roll Halloween by Bobby Bare, Jr from A Storm - A Tree - My Mother's Head JK--My new favorite Halloween song

"Self-driving cars could save more than 21,700 lives, $450B a year" (http://ow.ly/qlltK ) JK--Assuming they make them 100% roadworthy.

Drafted my next #IBMDataMag article: "Recommendations Galore: Exploring The Analytic-Powered Process Engines of the New Economy"

A8: #ibmblu What's next is #smarterplanet infra delivering right "signals" and giving confidence that we can ignore "noise" it filtered away

A8: #ibmblu What's next is more focus on collab human curation of new and existing data sources to facilitate tagging by "signal" relevance

A8: #ibmblu What's next is more adv cognitive computing techs that can spot unfamiliar signal in unfamiliar sources without pre-training

A8: #ibmblu What's next is more noise & signal, plus more automated infra baked into #bigdata #cloud #social #mobile #iot to distinguish

A7: #ibmblu Better sifting of signal from noise requires all users have access 2 self-svc, interactive, visual-rich #businessintelligence

A7: #ibmblu "Signal" delivery depends on tools that support contextual delivery of right data at right time to right decision maker.

A7: #ibmblu Distinguishing data signal from noise requires: #bigdata, stat analysis,profiling, filtering, quality, search, visualization.

A6: #ibmblu Augmentation of new signals (video, voice, etc.) benefits from correl8n w/existing data, eg, 360-degree customer profiles in EDW

A6: #ibmblu Deep metadata for new streaming sources can come in automated fashion from video/speech/image analytics tools.

A6: #ibmblu Can augment reading of new signals--voice, video, text, etc.--through crowdsourced or otherwise human-tagged metadata.

A5: #ibmblu Machine learning benefits from unsupervised and supervised methods of pattern-finding in new data sets.Both rely on horsepower

A5: #ibmblu Machines dont have severe attention, concurrency, & memory constraints o humans. Can multitask signal-finding at lightning speed

A5: About catching the bad data at the point of insertion/capture. The DBA needs to be able to focus on the client & not the SQL #ibmblu
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#ibmblu A5. With BLU Accel, we see 20x speedup on identical hardware. Some queries over 1000x. Changes the scale of how data is explored.
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A5: #ibmblu Plenty of algorithmic cognitive computing "sensemaking" functions--especially NLP--benefit from real-time hardware accel.

A4: #ibmblu DBAs now face challenge of optimizing queries, loads, job execution, & other functions across hybrid, distributed #bigdata infra

A4: #ibmblu The new business equation is balance need for #bigdata value against costs & complexity. Avoid overkill. Explore small data too

A4: #ibmblu The new #bigdata equation for business is find disruptive value in "signal" (eg microsegmentation) that's only evident at scale

A3: #ibmblu For my discussion of quality requirements re social sentiment data, see my #IBMDataMag article http://bit.ly/17XgRXP 

A3: #ibmblu Many operational data sets demand rigorous quality controls. But some sources, e.g., social intel, are less stringent re quality

Q3: #ibmblu Users must recognize that data, minus quality, is dangerous: can feed you w/bogus intelligence. Quality is key 4 decis support

A3: #ibmblu You dont "overcome" bad/extraneous data. Instead U profile, correlate, cleanse, correct, filter & augment 2 make it trustworthy

A2: #ibmblu Or construe "value" more business outcome that can be realized via evidence-driven analytics infused throughout biz processes

A2 #ibm Construe "value" as referring to any query that produces a data-driven response that you can actually trust & apply to biz question

A2: #ibmblu Analytics can drive value at any time & with any tool: simple BI query against an OLTP DB, or adv stat analytics on #bigdata

A1: #ibmblu Exploring the "noise" is heart of data science. Your data scientists use stat models & visual'zn 2 sift noise from the signal.

A1: #ibmblu Finding the "signal" sources isn't enough. Need to profile which data tables, records, & attributes are most relevant.

A1: #ibmblu What's in EDW may contain sufficient "signal." Or may need search, discovery, profilng tools 2 find "signal"-relevant sources

A1: #ibmblu You cut through noise by deciding what #bigdata sources are most relevant to your questions, and focusing on those.

RT @IBMbigdata: Make sure you check out background & #ibmibv study: http://bit.ly/1iusDM1  #ibmblu & this summ blog: http://ibm.co/1iusBnp 

Getting ready for #ibmblu Twitterchat "Distinguishing Signal Vs. Noise" at top of the hour. By "getting ready," I mean I have TweetDeck up

"Building models on seasonal data" (http://ow.ly/qk6RM ) JK--Discusses seasonality in performance (dependent var) vs. cohort (population)

"It's Your Data — But Others Making Billions Off It" (http://ow.ly/qk6cu ) JK--Compensate us when our social "recommendations" drive biz?

"Bigger Data? Or Better Models? Or….." (http://ow.ly/qk5jX ) JK--Not mutually exclusive. Bigger/better = larger samples & more attributes

"It’s everywhere! The day #Hadoop took over cloud" (http://ow.ly/qk38Z ) JK--Good provider quicklist. Incl. #IBM #BigInsights #SoftLayer

"Next Big Thing U Missed: #BigData Men Rewrite Govt’s Tired Economic Models" (http://ow.ly/qk2GP ) JK--What's with sexist "men" in head?

Sent my absentee ballot in for upcoming Virginia general election. Anybody who follows me knows I voted for McAuliffe (without enthusiasm).

@graemeknows You bet, sir! Thanks for stimulating my IOD-saturated cerebral cortex to the breaking point!

RT @HarvardBiz: Dilbert creator Scott Adams on management fads, The Office, & what his MBA taught him: http://s.hbr.org/1h0dUNt  @Dilbert_Daily

Small data? Even no, null, and/or "naughty" data can yield valuabl insights p1 http://linkd.in/1gc1HUE  p2 http://linkd.in/1itIgDw  Wed #IBM q-h

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Gift by Velvet Underground from White Light White Heat JK--Just realized it's "sworn vows," not "swollen vowels"

Catch me others Thurs Oct 31 12-1pm EDT #P4SPchat: Cognitive Computing (http://ow.ly/qiskE )

Video playback: last Fri, Smithsonian "Surveillance Society" event I spoke at (http://ow.ly/qiqeS ). Me: 31:30-53:00 & 1:19:00-2:10:00

Lou Reed "Dirt" (http://ow.ly/qi9aw ) JK--1978. Perfect example of ballsiest Lou.

Lou Reed "Disco Mystic" (http://ow.ly/qi8Ov ) JK--1979. This sounds like his "One Trick Pony" hack-producer persona kidnapped ballsy Lou

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp A Hazy Shade of Winter by S&G JK--Lou Reed played idiot record producer in "One Trick Pony" (http://ow.ly/qi8gJ )

"The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic" (http://ow.ly/qi3wc ) JK--I suspected as much. Newspaper people discrediting rival news medium

Come to Data Scientist Day, Mon Nov 4, #IBMIOD (http://ow.ly/qhTIa ). I moderate this expert panel: http://ow.ly/qhTWt  w/Jake Porway

Autumn almost halfway over & our trees are still green & leafy. What gives? I recall northern Virginia falls that were colorful by Halloween

"#IBM Analytics Study Reveals #BigData Equals Big Payoff" (http://ow.ly/qhjwO ) JK--See overvu in my blog today (http://ow.ly/qhjzY )

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Normal Person by Arcade Fire from Reflektor JK--2013. Good new. Ironically played while I read WashPost critic pan LP

Moose die-off in southernmost habitat due 2 heat stress frm global warming. Frostbite Falls MN still worthy of name? How's Bullwinkle doing?

RIP Marcia Wallace. Best known as voice of "Simpsons" teacher Edna Krabappel. I loved her as wisecracking receptionist on "Bob Newhart Show"

"Yes Twitter flawed during event like Boston bombings & so's everything else" (http://ow.ly/qhgll ) JK--Cites #IBM social analytics study

New #IBM jk blog: "Converting #BigData And Analytics Insights Into Results: IBV Study Findings" (http://ow.ly/qhd6G )

"Why Facebook Is Teaching Its Machines to Think Like Humans" (http://ow.ly/qhcKC ) JK--"Deep learning" aka "cognitive computing."

"Convergence: HPC, #BigData & Enterprise Computing" (http://ow.ly/qhcnz ) JK--Interesting table of expected data volumes by data types.

Recommendation engines? Analytics to illuminate way out of stab in dark p1: http://ow.ly/qh6sT  p2: http://ow.ly/qh6u9  Tues #IBM q-h

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Femme Fatale by Tracey Thorn from A Distant Shore JK--1982. Gr8 VU cover. Solo LP just before Everything But the Girl

Yesterday I Twitter-followed the Guggenheim, and now the Met, Whitney, & New Yorker following me. I must keep this riffraff at arm's length.

Many obits mentioned that "Walk on the Wild Side" was Lou Reed's only top-20 charting song. Funny that none dared call him "one-hit wonder"

Yoga practitioner is called a "yogi." I was shocked when I learned that yoga is Sanskrit word meaning "smarter than the average bear."

Saw "The Big Wedding" on DVD. Steaming pile of unadulterated Hollywood rom-com manure. Do De Niro Keaton Sarandon need the money that badly?

Drafted new #IBM jk blog: "Cognitive Computing: Relevant at all Speeds, Scales, and Scope of Thought"

"Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think" (http://ow.ly/qfVhv ) JK--Profile of Douglas Hofstadter. "Gödel, Escher, Bach" taught me to think

"Tuning Distributed Applications to Access #BigData" (http://ow.ly/qfSGp ) JK--Good practical guidance for DBAs.

Remember SNL Weekend Update several years ago when real Lou Reed responded 2 rumors of his death. "They're true. I've never felt more dead."

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Romeo Had Juliette by Lou Reed from New York JK--Brilliant story-song, a la "Walk on the Wild Side."

"Cloud Predictive Analytics Most Used To Gain Customer Insight" (http://ow.ly/qfPI5 ) JK--Presents interesting web user-survey results

Each of th 4 original Velvet Underground studio LPs was a classic, & quite stylistically distinct from each other & from 1967-70 rock scene.

A8: #cxo They used to say "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." It'll become "a healthcare app to guide your day keeps illness at bay."

@nvchawla A7: #cxo Clearly, the governance/quality of these records is a shared responsibilty of the collecting orgs (e.g., HMOs) & patients

A8: #cxo Consumers are already driving the personalized #healthcare revolution through smartphones, wearables, quantified life sensors, etc.

A7: #cxo Each consumer will insist on having full visibility w/introspection & ability to correct their medical profile.

A7: #cxo Mgmt of patient PII & EMRs is something I can speak on. Quantified life means each of us will own/manage what we self-collect

A7: #cxo IANAL (I am not a lawyer). The issue of patient PII ownership rights falls into category of topics I can't address knowledgeably

A6: #cxo Downside of personalized medicine is that may put too much reliance on patient self-svc, with doctors growing distant/inattentive

A6: #cxo Disad of personzd medicine is that physicians may focus so much on analytics that they fail to develop bedside manner/sensitivity

A6: #cxo Disad of personzd med is that patient & doctor may get so fixated on metrics that they overlook immeasurables (eg quality of life)

A6: #cxo A "downside" o personzd med is that we may acquire more insight into our unique profile than we would wish--eg., genetic diseases

A5: #cxo Personalized medicine means we're not being treated as specimens in the aggregate but as unique, complex individuals

RT @giasison: A5 Personalized medicine tailor fits your medical needs thus becomes more patient-centric and results oriented #cxo
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A5: #cxo Personzd med also brings new self-svc model--patient can do/learn more on own--into doctor-patient relationship. Informed consumer

A5: #cxo Personzd medicine brings oldest "oldschool" doctor approach--direct nuanced 1:1 engagement--back in force in online-centric model

A4: #cxo Another big challenge in personzd medicine is encouraging physicians 2 change practices. Oldschool stubbornly proud of old ways

A4: #cxo Big challenge in personalized medicine is encouraging patient self-service through smartphone apps, portals, etc. Culture shift.

A4: #cxo Big challenge in personzd medicine is ensure privacy of patient PII. Another is analytic empowerment of smart choices by caregivers

@tmustacchio @NeilRaden #CXO What's a "pharma hack"? Article quality (wheat v. chaff) has diverse criteria. #Watson does smart search

A3: #cxo The doctor's expert judgment is paramount. Personalized treatment may eliminate unnecessary treatments if shows some ineffective

A2: #cxo Predict/prevent diseases requires that doctors examine patients directly & enter observed factors into comprehensive data profiles

A2: #cxo Personalizing care depends on 360-degree data view of each patient as an individual, incorporating histories, EMRs, outcomes, etc

A2: #cxo Health data on patients, their family histories, and communities helps to find complex trends and risk factors otherwise invisible

A1: #cxo #BigData helps doctors to aggregate patient history, correlate with current condition, & predict futures under various treatments

A1 Aggregate the risk factors then roll up into one, segregate then we usually see a pattern that may reveal rare diagnoses #cxo
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A1: #cxo #BigData may help doctors model multlilayered physiological interactions that may have caused condition or are relevant 2 treatment

A1: #cxo #BigData may help doctors identify likely causes of conditions, and thereby suggest tests or treatments that may benefit.

A1: #cxo #BigData can uncover similar cases that doctors may no knowledge from their practice, or have overlooked in the medical literature

@IBMbigdata It's a pleasure to joining the #CXO today. Check out my relevant blog: http://ibm.co/1hn7CVQ 

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp All Tomorrow's Parties by Velvet Underground & Nico JK--German-Hungarian Nico sounds vaguely Irish on this: "mournin"

New #IBM jk #Dataversity column: "Machine Learning Boosts Data-Scientist Learning, and Vice Versa" (http://ow.ly/qfqWb )

"Made in #IBM Labs: Securing Data 4 Cloud Computing" (http://ow.ly/qfd0E ) JK--Patented invention secures priv info pre-transfer 2 cloud

"SoftLayer an #IBM Co & Cloudera Launch Turnkey #BigData Solns on Bare Metal Svrs" (http://ow.ly/qfcjz ) JK--SoftLayer design/deploy tool

Join #CXO Mon 12 ET! Personalizing #Healthcare Byte by Byte http://on.fb.me/17heN0k  w/ yours truly @nvchawla & @giasison #hcsm #bigdata

Mitch Ryder "Rock and Roll" (http://ow.ly/qf3a2 ) JK--1971. I know it's sacrilege but I dig this version of th Lou Reed-penned VU classic

@nvchawla Thanks. Are you going to comp me on this? There's a paywall there.

#Hadoop uber-alles? YARN unwinds the grip of MapReduce uber-alles (http://ow.ly/qf0Td ) Monday #IBM quick-hit

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Nobody but You by Lou Reed / John Cale from Songs for Drella JK--1990. Very cool & louche, tres Leonard Cohen.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Heroin by The Velvet Underground+Nico JK--Fun fact. Mayor Bloomberg finally got rid of dead bodies piled up in mounds

WashPost inexplicably prints most inane Lester Bangs diatribe against Lou Reed. Reminding me why I couldn't stomach Bangs' crappy criticism.

#IBM #BigData virtual event for #IBM India October 29/30. Keynote includes @jameskobielus, GPFS & #Hadoop, BigSQL http://ow.ly/qeJ4y  ^KS

Lou Reed's output was maddeningly bipolar and erratic from first to last. He took crazy artistic risks that mystified fans & critics alike.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Goodbye Old Friend by The Devil Makes Three from I'm A Stranger Here JK--2013. Beautiful. Sounds like Everly Bros gem

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Temptation Inside Your Heart by The Velvet Underground from VU JK--One of their coolest not-originally-released.

Maybe I'm imagining, but #KEXP DJ Quilty 3000 sounds like she's holding back tears over Lou Reed's death. I've never heard that before.

RIP Lou Reed. One of the most influential artists in rock history, right up there with Elvis, Chuck Berry, Dylan, the Beatles, and Hendrix.

If you call yourself a "world citizen," does that mean you're volunteering for frontline duty when Mars attacks? Go right on ahead.

This Saturday I fly to Las Vegas for close to week's worth of nonstop activity at #IBMIOD. Every year, we collectively tense up to the event

Yoga. Relaxation exercises. It's all about finding ways to get even lazier deeper down in your very being.

RT @SI_Invention: .@jameskobielus: big data = extracting deep value from advanced analytics on trustworthy data at extreme scales.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Centaur by Buck 65 frm This Right Here Is Buck 65 JK--Funny/clever string of "I'm hung like a horse" double-entendres


Saw "Before Midnight" on DVD. Conversational saga o Jesse & Celine continues: 40-something, married, kids, & relationship issues. Still real

I noticed that 72-year-old Raquel Welch has titled her memoirs "Behind the Cleavage." I'll bet she's been waiting years to use that phrase.

RT @eliasisrael: To me, the phrase “self-driving car” sounds about as appealing as “self-eating food."


@allwiley My pleasure. I needed to teach the Smithsonian a few new words. Their vocabulary is so limited.