Demystifying Hadoop: Not All Problems Are Hadoop-able
When you hear about Big Data, Hadoop hype follows almost automatically. But people often ask me what Hadoop actually does.…
O Knowledge Graph, Where Art Thou?
The web search community, in recent months and years, has heard quite a bit about the 'knowledge graph.' The basic…
The Computing Deployment Phase
Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Here’s a chart (from this excellent book by…
Using Geographic Data
Most organizations collect and maintain some type of geographic data, yet many ignore this data during analysis. Any business has…
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer on Data Portabilty
“Where you stand depends on where you sit.”–Nelson Mandela “Where you stand depends on where you sit.”–Nelson MandelaSpeaking at the…
Hadoop to Be Pervasive By 2015
Gartner projects that by 2015, 65% of packaged analytic applications with advanced analytics will come with Hadoop embedded. Sounds rational,…
Hacking the Budget
What’s the one thing every Finance person complains about if their organization uses Excel for budgeting? That users break links…
Mok Oh’s New Big Data Venture
Where’s the value in big data? Marcel Proust believed he could regain time lost through his writing, using art to overcome the…
Building a Private Cloud: A Strategic Guide
With the advent of cloud computing, companies are trapped with their desire to adopt the flexible and scalable model without…
Data Integration Ecosystem for Big Data and Analytics
In my article, “Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics,” I detailed a five step process to transition…