2017 French Presidential Election SMI continues to point to underdog Macron In early December, or about 6 weeks ago, we predicted using the Social Media Influence (SMI) Index that Emmanuel Macron, then a distant third place in the polls and betting markets, would surge and end up winning the French Presidential Election taking place in […]
Is boring data big data?
The term big data is still being defined. It is unclear which data sources will eventually be included under the umbrella term of big data and which will not quite make it. As much as people do not like the term, which has become very clear with the negative coverage that it has received, I […]
Google Flu Trends got it wrong, so what?
There has been a major attack on big data over the last month with all sorts of sensational titles from leading publications. Some examples: • Science Magazine: The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis • Financial Times: Big data: are we making a big mistake? • Harvard Business Review: Google Flu Trends’ […]
Maturing of Universal Big Data and Emergence of Vertical Big Data
Most are declaring victory for universal big data projects, or those that allow for storing, analyzing and extracting insights from big data. In my opinion, however, that story is pretty much played out – to be replaced by big data as applied to verticals. The recent news item that got people talking was Cloudera receiving […]
Apache Mesos – the next big thing?
Paco Nathan educated a standing room only meet-up on Apache Mesos this week at “Deep Dive on Apache Mesos”. It was easily one of the best meet-ups yet this year. The presentation can be found here. My general conclusion is that Mesos will become an integral part of the big data stack. It provides the […]
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