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by Angela Guess A recent article comments on the education of up-and-coming data professionals: “It seems that everywhere you turn you see industry articles about the continual adoption of analytics across many industries, but the one thing that is not being addressed is where the employees are going to come from to fill those...
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by Angela Guess Jenny Thomas recently reported that “’Go Big or Go Home’ is fast-becoming the new battle cry heard from midmarket IT departments around the globe. The demand by companies for better analytics, i.e., the ability to extract actionable insights from ‘Big Data,’ was cited as the number one priority in a recent...
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by Angela Guess Jim Harris has informed his readers, “I was recently discussing data governance best practices with Rob Karel, the well respected analyst at Forrester Research, and our conversation migrated to one of data governance’s biggest challenges – how to balance bureaucracy and business agility. So Rob and I thought it would be...
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by Angela Guess Julie Hunt recently argued that combining different data governance processes can help improve any business. She writes, “Data governance can be seen as formalized policies, practices and processes set up to manage voluminous data assets across enterprises. Data governance also sits on an important growing convergence that encompasses multiple, and frequently...
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by Angela Guess A recent article calls for companies to start employing more data scientists: “Load the term “data scientist” into Dice.com’s and Monster.com’s search engines, and you’ll get eight and seven responses respectively. Clearly, data scientists – the brainy, analytical folks who are charged with using statistical modeling tools to draw insights from...
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by Angela Guess Another great presentation from MongoSF focused on how Craigslist was able to migrate over two billion documents. The case study entitled Lessons Learned from Migrating 2+ Billion Documents at Craigslist was led by Jeremy Zawodny of Craigslist. Zawodny says of the presentation, “Last fall I spoke at the MongoSV conference about...
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By Christine Denney Okay, I will admit it. I did feel that little twinge of jealousy when Data Governance got its “Big G, Little G”. After all, that is a really catchy phrase. And if you’ve ever read the famous book by Dr. Seuss, you can think of all kinds of clever...
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by Angela Guess Larry Tieman recently wrote about the characteristics needed to become a technical leader. Tieman writes, “Without exception, all the technical leaders I have known over the course of my 40-year career (and I can remember every last person who reached that level) had a primary and an exceptionally strong secondary area...
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by Angela Guess A recent article comments, “The enterprise data centre is moving to the next stage of transformation. Server virtualisation technology has changed the way applications are provisioned and managed to improve cost-efficiency and business effectiveness. The fact is, though, some data centre architectures are still in phase one of the evolution. They...
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by Angela Guess In a recent article, Bob Gourley reports that Big Data is essential to the Department of Defense Science and Technology investment agenda. Gourley writes, “The Secretary of Defense signed a memorandum on 19 April 2011 which articulates the Science and Technology (S&T) priorities for the Department of Defense (DoD). This memo...
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