Saturday, April 04, 2015

Aweekstweets March 28 to April 4 2015: the week of amply orchestrated assets

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My exercise club. Best place for experiencing one pointless and ruinous remix after another of pop songs I otherwise like. Stop the madness!




“Family Circus” dog Barfy. Bil Keane also gave them a cat Poopy & rabbit Pissy.


Critics’ incessant gushing about “Mad Men” & all those quality shows on premium cable TV channls. We subscribe to none o them. Waste o money


Stupid letter to editor of Washington Post on whether newspapers should use “fancy” words. Just use the right words. Don’t dumb it down


Is there anybody whose actual name is Yours Truly? It must get kind of confusing when other people to refer to them.


Enough with the "do's & don'ts" already! Just give me a Mountain Dew and a donut, and be off with you!


New #IBM jk #ITKnowledgeExchange column: "Stemming the deluge of analytic-driven overnotification" (http://ow.ly/Latwj )


Better Tax Administration Through Better Use of Data http://bit.ly/1MKyVvu 


"Are you seeing red? Top 6 reasons to move to DB2" (http://ow.ly/La7ka ) JK--Infographic enumerates & elaborates them #IBMBigData


"IBM Fluid Query 1.0: Efficiently Connecting Users to Data" (http://ow.ly/La7cM ) JK--Rich Hughes on agile PDA/Hadoop queries #IBMBigData


"Changing what we know (and do) about th weather" (http://ow.ly/La78W ) JK--Andy Rice on the #IBM Weather Channel partnership #IBMBigData


"How social data is helping biz make smarter decisions" (http://ow.ly/La6SR ) JK--Sarah Warsaw on Twitter in Watson Analytics #IBMBigData


"Meet the IoT: How the Jetsons help us understand IoT solutions" (http://ow.ly/La6HG ) JK--Pete Karns on disruptive potential #IBMBigData


Drafted latest #IBM #InfoWorld column: "The Absurdity Of Declaring The Data Warehouse Dead"


Drafted latest #IBM #ITKnowledgeExchange column: "Stemming the Deluge of Analytic-Driven Overnotification."


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp A Man and a Half by Wilson Pickett JK--You're what? That doesn't mean you have 3 testicles, right? No? Whew!




Data-scientist skillsets? Driving it deeply into line-of-business domains (http://ow.ly/La3Jo ) Friday #IBM quick-hit


"Underbelly"? Is this like "underdog" in lacking an "over" counterpart? And are underbellies ever illuminated? Why always so dark?


"How to Become a Data Scientist for Free" (http://ow.ly/La1ID ) JK--Everything for the aspiring autodidact on the cheap.


"Artificial Intelligence Almost Ready for Business" (http://ow.ly/La1dw ) JK--Interesting range of viewpoints on cognitive computing apps


" #IBM Rolls Out Social Msgng Software for New Way 2 Work" (http://ow.ly/L9YYd ) JK--IBM Verse. Includes team org graph analytic insights


The Internet of Things won't be complete until it's inconceivable that any tree can fall in any forest anywhere and not be heard.


Yes, please invite all your Facebook friends to constantly like everything you like up to the point when they all utterly hate you.


I'd like to see Jamie & Adam bust the myths of big data. Race them at top speed off a cliff with a full tank of gas & watch the big kaboom!


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Foreign Object by The Mountain Goats from Beat The Champ JK--2015. As shocking & funny as his classic "No Children."


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Fool For Love by Lord Huron from Strange Trails JK--2015. Great new charging rocker from this LA-based group.


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Sad Days Lonely Nights by Junior Kimbrough from the album You Better Run JK--1994. Nice slice of electrified blues


Radio Shack getting a downsized reboot under new owners. Why are "Radio" & "Shack" still in their name? Connotes "obsolete" & "rickety."


Keep getting spam for something that touts self as a "walk-in tub." Not sure. I prefer being airlifted into mine.


Ayoh Jokowi dan pemerintah! Orang asing tidak akan mau kerja di sana kalau harus belajar bahasa Indonesia. Inggris bahasa bisnis di dunia.


New #IBM jk blog: "Fluidity: The key to continuous confidence in cloud analytics" (http://ow.ly/L9bf5 )


RIP Cynthia Lennon. She got burned badly by her 1st husband, not only in their marriage but in his nasty oblique references in his songs.


The universe is indifferent your headache.


"Artificial neurons & single-layer neural networks." At my age, I could use a brain-cell booster now&then. Howevermany layers. Lay 'em on me


"Social strategist"? My wife's better at that than me. Women usually are. I just follow her lead. I don't strategize. I just socialize.


Meet the Internet of Things http://bit.ly/1CB4EHK 




Changing what we know (and do) about the weather http://bit.ly/1MFkkl7 


New #IBM jk LinkedIn Pulse blog: "Something Singular May Or May Not This Way Come" (http://ow.ly/L7AGe )




Good to see Mike Gilpin, from way back in my Forrester Research days, at #EDW2015 yesterday. It's been 3 years.


Good to see Peter O'Kelly, from way back in my Burton Group days, at #EDW2015 yesterday. It's been 10 years and 4 months.


Today's my 3rd anniversary of joining IBM.


Geospatial analytics? Engineering scalable high-perf geo analytics DBMSs p1: http://ow.ly/L7wBg  p2: http://ow.ly/L7wDa  Thurs #IBM qh


Learn from your peers about #Informix & #IoT by attending the @IIUG 2015 event! http://ibm.co/IIUG2015  http://ow.ly/i/8w7YH 


Register for IoT event in San Diego - April 30 featuring #IoT solutions from #IBM and #Intel- https://ibm.biz/BdXdMg  http://ow.ly/i/a9fBM 


Share your passion and #DB2 expertise by presenting at the IDUG #DB2 tech conference in Australia. http://bit.ly/1xT3B1s 


Plansee optimized its SAP transactional and #analytical environment with DB2 BLU and reduced costs. http://bit.ly/1EAWKPc   #ibmblu #DB2


Easy installation and no clunky navigation? You bet!  Experience simplicity of IBM Data Server Manager. Watch https://ibm.biz/DSMvideos  #DB2


Predictable database server execution? Yup! Diagnosing and solving performance problems have never been simpler http://ibm.com/dataservermanager … #DB2


The Gist "Fool for a Valentine" (http://ow.ly/L4EyY ) JK--1983. Sort of a Lent song. The 2 quasi-holidays that roughly bracket the season


Catch me et al in panel discussing cognitive computing this morning at #EDW15. Same panelists as at last August's http://ow.ly/L4Edl 


Great discussion with James Kobielus @jameskobielus at #EDW2015. An analyst rock star who stays true regardless of where he is.

 jameskobielus retweeted


R. Dean Taylor "Indiana Wants Me" (http://ow.ly/L2c9r ) JK--1970. Song needs to add asterisk ** "hold it just a sec...that all depends"




"Analytics Powerhouse" (http://ow.ly/L23Hv ) JK--IBM Fluid Query 1.0 in PureData System for Analytics and Hadoop #IBMDataMag


"Information Insight for Business Innovation" (http://ow.ly/L23qG ) JK--Sushil Pramanick on big data in the info supply chain #IBMDataMag


"Spark Is the New Black" (http://ow.ly/L236g ) JK--Bob DuCharme on rapid rise of Apache Spark in Hadoop arena #IBMDataMag


Fun fact: letter "V" didn't enter English till the Normans introduced it after the Conquest. Credit the French with inventing big data?


#DidYouKnow Energy and utility companies say weather causes 70% of power outages? #WeatherMeansBiz https://vine.co/v/OLwd7PwaVJr 


#DidYouKnow: Businesses lose $500 billion every year in the U.S. because of weather. #WeatherMeansBiz https://vine.co/v/OLwdF75LB7j 


If a tree falls in the forest...now we'll be able to hear it. #IBM #IoT #InternetOfThings https://vine.co/v/OLwTpOOJidi 


IBM and The Weather Company Partner... (http://ow.ly/L1Iwl ) JK--WSI shifting to IBM Cloud, integrate data with IBM analytics cloud svcs






IBM Connects “Internet of Things” to Enterprise (http://ow.ly/L1HxS ) JK--Invest $3B next 4 years. New #IoT biz unit. Cld-bsd open plat






The Rise of the Insights Economy http://bit.ly/1CsEree 


The Internet of Things Begins to Fulfill its Promise http://bit.ly/1CsEo2g 


Graph analysis? Analyzing the infinite graph of endless joins p1: http://ow.ly/L0tot  p2: http://ow.ly/L0tqn  Wed #IBM qh in advance


Stream computing? Spark: fog, cloud, or stream p1 http://ow.ly/L0sk1  p2 http://ow.ly/L0slt  Tues #IBM qh in advance. Offsite tomorrow


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Daft Punk Is Playing at My House by LCD Soundsystem from London Sessions JK--2010. Faster alternate version. Way cool


I never ask anybody else to like, promote, or amplify anything I'm doing. That's my job. Let them toot theirs, me mine, and everybody's fine


"10,000 years of war .... DNA map of Britain" (http://ow.ly/KZp2h ) JK--Confirms what this much-documented people already knew of selves


"‘Open Humans’ platform wants 2 democratize DNA" (http://ow.ly/KZow9 ) JK--Allows people to share their genomic & other bio data w/rschrs


"An Introduction to Recommendation Engines" (http://ow.ly/KZmV3 ) JK--Nicely structured and eminently readable primer on the topic.


"10 Common Misconceptions about Neural Networks" (http://ow.ly/KZm7p ) JK--"Neural networks are not models of the human brain"


Neuroscientists and behavioral data scientists should team up to build algorithms to predict when someone's getting on your nerves


I stopped reading a tech blog midway when the author used "majorly" as an adverb. I'm linguistically permissive. But have my standards.


"Hypothesis Testing & Experimenting in Business" (http://ow.ly/KZj2j ) JK--Cites Michael Schrage. One of our new contribs at IBM BD&A Hub


I'm going to suggest that everybody reserve their "[blank] is the new [blank]" proclamations for the next round of Terminally Hip Mad Libs.


"Hadoop and Spark: Friends or Foes?" (http://ow.ly/KZiiF ) JK--Good comparative stack diagrams.


"Artificial Intelligence as Auto-Suggest for Your Life" (http://ow.ly/KZhM2 ) JK--Predictive think-ahead for behavioral next-best actions


"Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning" (http://ow.ly/KZhpm ) JK--Deep dive into topic of critical importance to cognitive computing speed


"Algorithms Deciding Whom To Hire Based On Voice" (http://ow.ly/KZc4u ) JK--Sounds like asking 4 civil-right discrimin class-action suit


The fabled Ned Ludd. People don't realize he had a cousin, Len Dudd, who rebuilt & recalibrated the machines after Ned & buds'd smashed 'em


"Analytics and the Customer Journey" (http://ow.ly/KZarx ) JK--Nice bit of dissecting of the journeys, plural.


"Goodbye Spreadsheets, Hello Alternatives" (http://ow.ly/KZ9OO ) JK--You say "goodbye," but users say "good enough."


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Golden Blunders by The Posies from Dear 23 JK--1990. Totally love the rousing build to the chorus on this one.


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Ritual Union by Little Dragon JK--2011. A nice piece of smooth soothing dance electronica.


That Indiana law saying OK to cite religion in discrimin8ng against LGBT. Are they also claiming same grounds justify racial discrimination?


"Hadoop ignited 'Cambrian explosion'" (http://ow.ly/KZ4Yb ) JK--Uh, no. Elephant family tree branched in Eocene (http://ow.ly/KZ5FT )


"Targeting Villages for Rural Developmt Using Satellite Image Analysis" (http://ow.ly/KZ3RP ) JK--Surfaces acute needs in remote villages


"Human Rights Event Detection from Heterogeneous Social Media Graphs" (http://ow.ly/KZ3nm ) JK--Social media reports it before news media


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp El Jefe by Mexican Institute of Sound from Politico JK--2012. Straight-ahead rock with mariachi flourishes.


New #IBM jk DW blog: "One Query Drives It All: IBM Fluid Query Is The Foundation Of The Logical Data Warehouse" (http://ow.ly/KYnD8 )


Fight "Blacklist" criminals using real-time actionable intelligence http://bit.ly/1CoZ6jx 


RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Find Yourself by Jacco Gardner from Find Yourself JK--2015. Nice one. Grabs your ear. I'm not familiar with th artist


"RSA Conference bans ‘booth babes’" (http://ow.ly/KXd2v ) JK--Nope. Just sexually suggestive attire on booth personnel of either gender.


Reading a book on yoga by BKS Iyengar. Reading about yoga is like dancing about architecture. Better to be present inside an actual edifice


Poetic expression is simply the art of fusing word and meaning into something singular.




LIVE on #Periscope: Home, reading Seamus Heaney, listening to classical music radio https://www.periscope.tv/w/VvmPMTI5NjQ0M3w5NDQ1NzeLcN0zWSJjVzPGsUEb2kxFaRSGzuOmp9xgNMRh7eaa4g== …


LIVE on #Periscope: Waiting outside CVS for the wife https://www.periscope.tv/w/VvlUuTI5NjQ0M3w4Njc1OTBs4T3xYvvuG_6sfHUGpweCKnYPghFwKnkNAxPKtlA1Ng== … JK--To see how captivating my mundane life is to others




Supposed importance of STEM education in today’s high-tech world. My background is in none of that. I’m IBM’s big data evangelist. Go figure


People are much more susceptible to becoming captive to their own thought processes than to other people. We know we can resist the latter.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Aweekstweets March 21-28 2015: the week I did an unexpected NYC trip





Have registered for, downloaded & started using the new Periscope service for streaming smartphone2world video. Scope me on Periscope.

Not sure if that "I used to hate pooping in public" YouTube commercial is elaborate put-on or most nauseating advertisement in human history

RIP Richard III. Perhaps, if you’d resembled Marty Feldman in “Young Frankenstein,” Shakespeare might have made you a comedy protagonist.

RIP Michael Brown. Songwriter-keyboardist of The Left Banke. Composed both of their gorgeous hits: “Walk Away Renee” & “Pretty Ballerina.”

OK, enough of the "10 articles you absolutely must read." Go the next step: "1000 articles you must urge everybody in your country to read"

Whew. Weak. End. Whew!

New #IBM JK #InformationWeek column: "Apache Spark: 3 Promising Use-Cases" (http://ow.ly/KTOuQ )

I'm growing nuttier as I get older. For example, I challenge myself to do & write up insanely difficult analyses while in noisy airports

Improbably, I continued my usual thought-leadership output through the reorg-roiled and travel-interrupted past few weeks. Hanging on fine


Information economics? #BigData role in helping developing economies truly develop all their assets (http://ow.ly/KSnLR ) Fri #IBM qh

New #IBM jk blog: "Delving deeply into the narrative hierarchies of computer vision analytics" (http://ow.ly/KSljQ )

New #IBM jk LinkedIn Pulse blog: "Placemaking, Urban Design, & The Analytics Of Public Space Utilization" (http://ow.ly/KPbQT )

#BigData single version of the truth? The absurdity of declaring #datawarehouse “dead” (http://ow.ly/KP61q ) Thursday #IBM quick-hit

Drafted next #IBM jk #InformationWeek column: "Spark: Fog, Cloud, Or Stream?"

"Beyond Hadoop: The streaming future of big data" (http://ow.ly/KP2YI ) JK--But batch, like ETL, isn't fading into the twilight.

Just saw legitimate PR pitch to discuss potential o big data in cannabis industry. Rollups & ingestion have whole different meaning for them

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Take Me for a Little While by Cher from Backstage JK--1968. Nice early soul solo while she was still hitched to Sonny

Been a full day of workshopping in Hell's Kitchen. Hope to round it out with a healthy round o winesipping tonight up in Midtown. Manhattan!

Can Hadoop really change the world? http://bit.ly/1BrkWiM 

#AnalyticsForAll livestream April 1st http://bit.ly/waliveldn  Watson Analytics, Twitter & IBM Verse #NewWayToWork http://bit.ly/1FVNgjc 

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Black Cherry Pie by JEFF th Brothrhood frm Wasted On Th Dream JK--2015. Ian Anderson on flute. Yes, Tullman incarnate

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Origins by Tennis from Young and Old JK--2012. This one makes me feel deliriously happy.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads from Remain in Light JK--1980. "There is water at the bottom of the ocean." True!

Quantified self? The analytics of quantified candor p1: http://ow.ly/KM5Y6  p2: http://ow.ly/KM60e  Wednesday #IBM quick-hit

OK, I'm up. OK, hotel-lobby coffee urns, you better be down there & steaming your little guts out. I'm a comin' down. Good morning New York!

Cognitv cmptg? AI + BI = decision support + decision automation p1: http://ow.ly/KJARx  p2: http://ow.ly/KJATN  Tuesday #IBM quick-hit

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Hold On by Tom Waits from Mule Variations JK--1999. Great song that could just as easily be a soulful Springsteen.

Why a unified Hub makes perfect sense as a dynamic platform for hosting #datatechnology content http://ibm.co/1EEdEtM  by James Kobielus

Beginning spring 2015, #IBMDatamagazine becomes the centerpiece of thought leadership at the hub http://ibm.co/1EEdEtM  by James Kobielus

#IBMDatamagazine’s #nextstep in its evolution: Consolidation into the IBM #BigData & Analytics Hub http://ibm.co/1EEdEtM  by James Kobielus

Turning a Page http://ibm.co/1EEdEtM  by James Kobielus

"The #BigData Warehousing Seminar 2015" (http://ow.ly/KJnhC ) JK--May 21, NYC. Register: http://ow.ly/KJnsn 

"Integrated Tools That Empower Database Mgmt" (http://ow.ly/KJmUS ) JK--Bui & Miskimen on administer monitor optimize ent-scale databases

"Cognitive Innovation Shines a Light on Dark Medical Literature" (http://ow.ly/KJmpU ) JK--Rich Hughes on #IBM #Watson in biomedical rsch

"Turning a Page" (http://ow.ly/KJlbD ) JK--IBM Data mag merges w/ #IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub. I curate all Tech Mktg content on Hub


Four interesting things about IBM, Hadoop and open source http://bit.ly/1FT3klH 

Continuous campaigning. My job now involves facilitating that. Must heed my own advice from year before last (http://ow.ly/KJjvK ).

World Water Day: Will Big Data Save Our Water Systems? http://bit.ly/1BKz5ay 

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box by Modest Mouse frm Strangers to Ourselves JK--2015. Good one from their new one

A yes, another day of postal mail, another "special invitation" to apply for another f***ing credit card. I feel divinely anointed as chosen

"Not all machine learning is created equal" (http://ow.ly/KGCwn ) JK--Discusses shifting senses in which term's been used over time

"5 reasons why Spark Streaming... is not stream processing" (http://ow.ly/KGAfj ) JK--See also my recent post (http://ow.ly/KGAqo )

Touring Test. Detects whether machine intelligence can spot tourist traps as rapidly as the most jaded human vacationer.

Even if no time 2 read something that's sorta interesting, I run my eyes over it. Words are textures. Like glancing at fabric. Patterns tell

"The Global Flow of People" (http://ow.ly/KGqqH ) JK--Cool data-driven visualization of migration flows btwn/within regions 1990 to 2010

"New NASA software crowdsources asteroid detection" (http://ow.ly/KGlZQ ) JK--Should crowdsource to 24x7 worldwide IoT deep-lrn sensornet

Pollen season definitely underway. My sinuses feel like there's a Sahara sandstorm raging within.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Nancy Sinatra JK--1966. Late 60s: only time another Sinatra eclipsed Ol Blue Eyes

IBM Big Data for Social Good Challenge - Submission Showcase http://bit.ly/1FR9ClR 

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Windmills Of Your Mind by Dusty Springfield from Dusty In Memphis JK--1969. Romantic, wistful, & brassy. Beauty!

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I'm Only Sleeping by The Beatles from Revolver JK--1966. Considering how busy they were, John deserved "lazy" time.

Drafted my latest #IBM jk blog: "Delving Deeply Into the Narrative Hierarchies of Computer Vision Analytics"

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Warrior by Laura Marling from Short Movie JK--2015. Nice one. Sounds like a moody Joni Mitchell.

Not sure if I should list self on Facebook as "public figure." A bit pretentious. Think I'll go with "historically significant personage."