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