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Comment on What’s After Excel? Big Data and the Future of Spreadsheets by Niraj

Niraj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:28:06 +0000

Feels great to see a post that amplifies my viewpoint here http://blog.gandalf-lab.com/2009/03/how-many-computers-does-world-need.html

IMHO – Just as Excel skills are must have for an MBA program today, Some form of Mahout and Hadoop skills will be must have in future MBA programs. Using Collaborative Filters , Bayesian filter etc on large company datasets will be daily jobs for Managers.

Comment on What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions by sogrady

sogrady — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:49:20 +0000

@ianxm: respectfully disagree. if highly differentiated APIs are the “universal law,” as kant might put it, customers have a serious problem on their hands.

Comment on What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions by ianxm

ianxm — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:16:16 +0000

I think you misunderstood kant’s categorical imperative. if each company implements its interface in the way it feels every company should implement their interface, then they are acting in accordance with kant. kant doesn’t say that they have to get together and create a standard interface.

Comment on What’s After Excel? Big Data and the Future of Spreadsheets by Emil Eifrem

Emil Eifrem — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:13:14 +0000

I agree that big data is a noble and important goal. And while the backend tools for handling big data is progressing nicely, it seems like very little work is being done on the frontend toolchain.

But *complex* data — i.e. data that is intertwined, semi-structured, highly connected, irregular — is probably even more relevant for the majority of the people out there. A lot of folks run into problems with joins (due to graph-shaped data) and sparse tables (due to semi-structured data) long before their data sets are even moderately large by Hadoop standards.

And a concern for me right now is that in the whole #nosql jungle, most focus on scaling to size and very few on scaling to complexity. That is unfortunate since I think coping with complexity is the more relevant problem for a larger slice of the population. But I’m biased.

Anyway, I ranted a bit more about this here:

http://blogs.neotechnology.com/emil/2009/11/nosql-scaling-to-size-and-scaling-to-complexity.html

Would love to hear your feedback!

-EE

Comment on What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions by DCS

DCS — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:09 +0000

“…and data marketplaces may ultimately eclipse them all.”

Interesting thought, but with so much data already available across the web for free — via whitepapers, “slices” from analyst reports published on blogs, etc. — how would you envision this working? Value-added via aggregation and organization? Vertical focus? Single datasets (vs. detailed notes/reports) on the cheap?

Comment on Applications I Can’t Live Without, Volume 1: YubNub by pablo7

pablo7 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:34:06 +0000

This video offers the best explanation of YubNub yet.

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Comment on What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions by 1 Raindrop

1 Raindrop — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:53:20 +0000

Vote A6 in 2010…

Stephen O’Grady is first out of the gate with 2010 predictions, and this is a solid one Cloud API Proliferation Will Become a Serious Problem When I meet with cloud providers these days, the default answer to questions about the openness or lackthereo…

Comment on What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions by Aprigo

Aprigo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:58:42 +0000

Data Visualization Is Going To Be A Big Deal In 2010…

I just got done reading an article by Stephen O’Grady at Redmonk entitled What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions, and one of the predictions makes all the sense in the world: data visualization is going to be huge. From the post:
The challen…

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