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How to Lie with Data

How to Lie with Data

By Paul Miller on June 30, 2014

Back in the early Nineties, I was working on a Ph.D applying a tool called a Geographic Information System (GIS) to the challenge of modelling archaeological deposits under cities. For those of us worrying about these things, Mark Monmonier‘s then-newly published first edition of How to Lie with Maps was required reading. It wasn’t so much a handbook […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, Business Intelligence, Chart, Data analysis, data science, Edward Tufte, Geographic Information System, graph, Linked Data, Map, Mark Monmonier, open data, visualisation

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Quentin Clark discusses data, data platforms, and more

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Quentin Clark discusses data, data platforms, and more

By Paul Miller on April 2, 2014

The Data Platform Group at Microsoft does a lot, from SQL Server and their Hadoopey HDInsight offering through to Business Intelligence and analytics capabilities which sit in or on top of the humble Excel spreadsheet. I’ve touched upon pieces of this whole before, in a 2009 podcast on Azure with Amitabh Srivastava (then Corporate VP […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged azure data market, BI, big data, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, data markets, data platform group, Enterprise Computing, excel, microsoft, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, open data, Podcast, quentin clark, sql server

Is data-powered personalization creepier when it happens offline?

Is data-powered personalization creepier when it happens offline?

By Paul Miller on November 7, 2013

Survey results, like infographics, make up a depressingly large part of the delay email deluge. And, like almost every infographic ever made, most of these surveys are a complete waste of time. They’re blatantly self-serving, and based upon laughably small sample sizes. Every now and then, though, one that’s a little more interesting will arrive. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, Internet of Things, isaca, open data | 2 Responses

Getting it right with data attribution

Getting it right with data attribution

By Paul Miller on May 13, 2013

There have always, it seems, been people for whom attribution and citation really matter. Some of them passionately engage in arguments that last months or years, debating the merits of comma placement in written citations for the work of others. Bizarre, right? But, as we all become increasingly dependent upon data sourced from third parties, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged attribution, big data, citation, data attribution, data citation, data commons, data licence, data license, data market, data reuse, data science, data use, databases, Dataset, Leigh Dodds, open data, pragmatism, Terms & Conditions

Seeking Simplicity’s Sweet Spot

Seeking Simplicity’s Sweet Spot

By Paul Miller on May 10, 2013

Albert Einstein, you may have heard, was a clever man. He scribbled equations on blackboards, thought big thoughts, and all of that. But, allegedly, he also said Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. These words have resonated with me recently, as I’ve heard pitches from one company after another, all […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Albert Einstein, Analytics, BI, big data, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, data, Data analysis, data science, data scientist, Datahero, interpretation, open data, user interface, visualisation, Visualization | 2 Responses

Find the data, aggregate the data, make the data useful

Find the data, aggregate the data, make the data useful

By Paul Miller on May 6, 2013

I was in New York in March, taking part in GigaOM’s Structure:Data event. As usual on these trips, I spent the day before the event walking around the city, soaking up some air, getting rained on, using coffee to stay awake, and meeting with a number of local companies. Of the companies I met that […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, data aggregation, Data analysis, data management, data markets, dataconf, enigma, enigma.io, GigaOM, New York City, open data, startup, structureconf, techcrunch, TechCrunch Disrupt

Visualisation – the key that unlocks data’s value?

Visualisation – the key that unlocks data’s value?

By Paul Miller on April 29, 2013

As the Big Data hype machine continues its relentless attempt to gobble everything in its path, new business units and entire new domains buying into the promise find themselves faced with unanticipated data volume and complexity. They see the potential for data-based decision making, but still face (short-term?) challenges in actually managing, analysing or interpreting […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged BI, big data, Business Intelligence, Data analysis, data mining, data science, data scientist, data visualisation, data visualization, hadoop, infer, open data, rosslyn Analytics, Vik Singh | 1 Response

To Dublin, in search of evidence

To Dublin, in search of evidence

By Paul Miller on April 16, 2013

I travelled to Ireland last week, to attend the second meeting of the European Data Forum (EDF). The EDF provided travel support for my trip, and I am grateful to them for that. I was searching for evidence of ways in which smart use of data is having a transformative effect upon European businesses. Although some […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, croke park, data markets, data value chain, deri, dublin, edf, edf_13, edf13, European Commission, european data forum, ireland, Linked Data, open data

Doing the DataBeat

Doing the DataBeat

By Paul Miller on April 10, 2013

For the past two years, Ben Kepes and I have helped the team at VentureBeat assemble the programme for their annual Cloud Computing event, CloudBeat. It looks as though we may end up doing something similar with them this year, as CloudBeat moves from Redwood City to downtown San Francisco, and from November to September. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Analytics, ben kepes, big data, cloud computing, CloudBeat, Data analysis, data science, data visualisation, DataBeat, Linked Data, open data, venturebeat

Is Infochimps running from the Data Market business?

Is Infochimps running from the Data Market business?

By Paul Miller on March 1, 2013

Infochimps is one of the early champions of the data market business, and one that I’ve followed for several years. As I mentioned in my last post on the topic, the company has recently begun to pivot towards delivery of their (compelling) Enterprise Cloud big data analysis offering, with the company’s data market origins slipping further […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged api, big data, data marketplace, data markets, datamart, infochimps, open data

Discussing Data Markets in New York City

Discussing Data Markets in New York City

By Paul Miller on February 5, 2013

As part of GigaOM’s Structure:Data Conference (taking place in New York City on 20-21 March), Jo Maitland and I are going to host a Mapping Session on Data Marketplaces. What are they, what are they doing, why do they matter, and how does their future look? The session is intended to be highly interactive, so attendees […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, cloud computing, conference, data markets, GigaOM, GigaOM Pro, gigaom research, jo maitland, New York City, open data, structure, structure:data, structureconf, workshop | 1 Response

Big Data as Core, Big Data as Context, and Big Data as Buzzword Bingo

Big Data as Core, Big Data as Context, and Big Data as Buzzword Bingo

By Paul Miller on December 21, 2012

It’s neither particularly newsworthy nor insightful to suggest that ‘Big Data’ gets everywhere these days, but two recent items reminded me of the gulf between credible execution of a big data play and the more questionable tacking of the big data meme onto an otherwise useful product. Christmas is coming. Which means skating, and pantomimes […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Glacier, Amazon Web Services, Apache Hadoop, big data, cloud computing, data markets, dropbox, genie9, infochimps, nosql, open data, techcrunch, vmware, zoolz

Data Journalism at The Guardian

Data Journalism at The Guardian

By Paul Miller on October 2, 2012

UK newspaper, The Guardian, has done some pioneering work to use data, and to engage readers in exploring data to share their own insights. The paper’s Simon Rogers and Google’s Kathryn Hurley shared some of the lessons at the Strata conference. Rough notes follow. Not going to talk about big projects like riots and Wikileaks and MP’s […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, data journalism, open data, oreilly, strata, strataconf, strataeu, The Guardian

O’Reilly’s Strata comes to Europe, with a very British opening

O’Reilly’s Strata comes to Europe, with a very British opening

By Paul Miller on October 1, 2012

O’Reilly’s Big Data extravaganza, Strata, left its native U.S. for the first time this week, coming to London for two days of data; the big, the open, the structured, the unstructured, and the undecided. Whilst many of the companies and issues are the same, whether you’re in London, California or New York City, there are […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged big data, london, open data, oreilly, strataconf

The next big thing: WeeData

The next big thing: WeeData

By Paul Miller on September 25, 2012

‘Big Data’ has a problem, and that problem is its name. Dig deep into the big data ecosystem, or spend any time at all talking with its practitioners, and you should quickly start hitting the Vs. Initially Volume, Velocity and Variety, the Vs rapidly bred like rabbits. Now we have a plethora of new V-words, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, data markets, Data Warehousing, databases, defragcon, gartner, open data, strataconf, strataeu, weedata | 4 Responses

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