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Comment on Business Intelligence does not Come From a Product by Aaron Erickson

Aaron Erickson — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:04:38 +0000

Thanks – but I am not concerned about supporting legacy web browsers like IE.

Comment on Business Intelligence does not Come From a Product by aussieadpost.com

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Comment on Hype, “Big Data”, and Towards a More Pragmatic Analytics by Aaron Erickson

Aaron Erickson — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:02:51 +0000

I suppose such a thing is possible, in theory. However, I fail to see a great reason for doing so. The analysis is usually going to be in some alt structure in most deep analytics scenarios (think Hadoop or other map-reduce platforms).

Why do we need everything on the same platform anyway? Why even bother trying? We can analyze data in context of other data across multiple platforms reasonably easily. The only people I see wanting to build platforms are people that either sell the platforms (i.e. think EDW vendors) or IT departments who have already invested heavily in such systems and for some reason need to justify said system’s existence.

Comment on Hype, “Big Data”, and Towards a More Pragmatic Analytics by alg0rhythm

alg0rhythm — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:54:20 +0000

ok. but wouldn’t it be possible to leave space and create a rubric for either manually adding or automating additions to edge data later. To analyze it in context with other data.. which without specific examples I can’t be sure is necessary you would have to pull it from it’s silo anyway, right?

Comment on Hype, “Big Data”, and Towards a More Pragmatic Analytics by Aaron Erickson

Aaron Erickson — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:30:57 +0000

When I say edge, I mean things like logs (structured, unstructured), sensor data coming in from devices around the network, systems in shadow IT, and anything else that tends to escape the control of IT directly. The “dark matter” of corporate data, if you will – which almost always escapes direct control from corp IT.

Comment on Hype, “Big Data”, and Towards a More Pragmatic Analytics by alg0rhythm

alg0rhythm — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:28:23 +0000

Thanks for replying. It’s been a while since I managed a corporate data structure and even then they were only segments of the enterprise. Not sure i know what you mean by the efge… and when you say platform you mean like Oracle?

Comment on Hype, “Big Data”, and Towards a More Pragmatic Analytics by Aaron Erickson

Aaron Erickson — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:16:52 +0000

I actually don’t think it’s ever possible to be on the same platform. Too much data being generated at the edge in most organizations, much of which is the most useful/interesting. I am doing this now with a major IaaS provider – where the amount of data being generated, the organizational complexity, and the need for both owned and outside data in order to do proper analytics implores us to take a multi-platform strategy.

In other words, data generation has reached escape velocity. It is being generated far faster than any org can warehouse it. You have to take a strategy of dealing with data as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Comment on Hype, “Big Data”, and Towards a More Pragmatic Analytics by alg0rhythm

alg0rhythm — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:54:58 +0000

I agree with most of what is said here…especially with the tendency of many organizations to. Hop on to trendy intiatives that ends up with a lot of waste. Ive talked to organizations that were 1 app /1 server minimum. Going too big can be rough and wasteful.

However…I do think one data standard is a key idea. If information flow stimulates growth..getting rid of data silos is important. Is it not possible to migrate the data of an existing organization onto one platform?
I am in the opening stages of an experiment to see if all data…. can be stored in the same warehouse with different permissoning structures.

Comment on Hype, “Big Data”, and Towards a More Pragmatic Analytics by Madan

Madan — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:52:14 +0000

Most times when a company calls me and says they need a BIG data solution, they really want some numbers – nay, they want to see colour images of grouped numbers…

Well done to have described Big Data and Analytics side by side

Comment on Why I Work At ThoughtWorks (and why you should too…) by Uma Nat

Uma Nat — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:03:58 +0000

Great article Aaron… I work for ThoughtWorks too, and personally have grown as a better individual in the one year that I have been there, I have a better perspective of life and the world now – Hats off to Roy, Trevor and the likes who have built such an incredible culture that each of us are so proud of. Your article reflects just that…