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DHagar
4/13/2017 7:51:26 PM
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@Mike, excellent report and trends; it catures not only the rapid growth and dynamics but the multiple threads of technology and applications that this feeds.
It truly shifts the emphasis in technology to the transformation to "virtual connectedness" and the value that comes from digesting the data and gaining new insights.
Tableau is doing good work in this area, along with IBM, et al. You can see the transformation in markets/sales as these companies begin to identify themselves as 'information services companies" rather than "technology sales".
I think these drivers will transform companies and their cultures - both with emphasis on users as well as the wider spread of digital literacy and cross-department coordinations in companies.
dcawrey
4/14/2017 11:19:48 AM
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I haven't been hearing too much about big data as of late, but I know it is a growing industry. This is especially true for big companies. Those organizations already have a ton of data. They just need to leverage it better to make business decisions.
Ariella
4/14/2017 12:22:44 PM
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@dcawrey In 2012 it was a very big thing. Big data still serves as the basis for a predictive analytics, but it's not quite as attention-grabbing any more. The cool term du jour in that category seems to be AI.
DHagar
4/14/2017 2:35:38 PM
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@Ariella, correct - it is interpretation of the data and giving it new uses, which is moving into the AI and cognitive computing realm. It also makes it more of a business tool in giving decision makers new access to information.
DHagar
4/14/2017 2:33:44 PM
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@dcawrey, exactly - that is where the value will be.
Big data hs been alive - it is actually rolling up into the newer areas of interest, IoT and AI and cognitive computing. But the common thread is now "use" of the data that comes from the technology. Intelligence now becomes - access to more data points, data connections, AND insights. It opens up a horizontal value-driven capability that will further feed cross-functional expertise and facilitate collaboration. Key be of key value to business.
But this then feeds the other technologies, SDN/NFV, overall virtualization, etc. It's a fascinating transformation.
dcawrey
4/15/2017 1:17:12 PM
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@DHagar Very true - I think because big data is so multidiscipinary it is just getting lumped into other facets of technology.
This means hearing less about it as a standalone entity I guess.
DHagar
4/17/2017 7:22:59 PM
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@dcawrey, definitely. It is becoming part of the fabric of technology. I would take it a step further and state that it is becoming a utility throughout technology applications. It's value will continue to grow I believe.
mpouraryan
4/18/2017 1:48:06 AM
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Yes, BUT what the New York Times noted in this "notation" yesterday may end upupendingit all in light of the "light touch" that seems to be the order of the day out of Washington:: '....
| Donald Trump has the freewheeling, broadly democratic internet to thank for his still-shocking climb to the presidency. Now that he's in office, though, his administration is taking steps to fundamentally alter, if not destroy, the internet as we know it — so argues Susan Crawford, a Harvard law professor and one of the country's top experts in telecommunications regulation, in an Op-Ed today. |
| I've followed Crawford's work for years — among other things, she's the author of "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age." So when President Trump installed Ajit Pai, a fiercely antiregulatory member of the Federal Communications Commission, as the new head of that agency, I knew she'd have something to say. |
| That was a few months ago, but we agreed that we should wait to see what Pai would do in his new post before letting her loose. According to Crawford, the results — above all, a frontal assault on the F.C.C.'s net neutrality rule — haven't surprised her. |
| "Chairman Pai is willing to ignore anything or anyone that doesn't fit with his world view: that unconstrained markets for infrastructure will magically provide all the benefits that people could ever reasonably want," she told me. "He's a skilled speaker who enjoys using pop culture references to connect with his audiences." |
| Trump's F.C.C. isn't the only place taking aim at the internet. Congress, in a party line vote, recently approved a bill to give telecom providers greater access to consumer information online — a move that privacy advocates say gives them dangerously in-depth access to our personal information. |
| And while Trump talked a good game about opposing big-business mergers on the campaign trail, he and members of Congress are being lobbied aggressively by the telecom industry to approve a coming wave of mergers, something Crawford and others say will mean even less consumer choice, higher prices and poorer service — at a time when the quality of America's internet access, broadly speaking, is falling well behind that of countries like Sweden, South Korea and Japan. |
| The problem, as Crawford sees it, is that Pai and other antiregulation advocates misunderstand the nature of the telecom industry. |
| "Basic communications infrastructure isn't like any other commodity product," she said. "Left to their own devices, private telecom companies will systematically consolidate to control richer and denser areas, avoid capital expenditures like upgrading to fiber, and leave out thinly-populated or poorer areas. |
| "It's not evil; it's just how markets work. But today high-capacity internet access is a utility, like electricity and water," she added. "Without government intervention we'll leave millions of Americans behind and rob ourselves of the opportunity to lead the world in innovation and job creation." |
| The full Opinion report from The Times follows. |
DHagar
4/18/2017 5:47:54 PM
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@mpouraryan, clearly there are different views. Your comments are well informed and thoughtful. It is interesting to note how many differences there are in whether people view this as a right, commercial channel, development and innovation capability for the nation, etc. - which seems to direct the way they respond.
Clearly the net neutrality regulations hae been highly controversial from the beginning and seems to pit the access to consumers vs. major service providers - not a fair fight.
I doubt he will back down from this view. I fully believe there are better ways to protect the c onsumer and access without inhibiting the innovation capabilities of companies to profit from research and development. I think we have not yet come up with the right answers and need to go back to the drawing board - but I doubt that will happen.
mpouraryan
4/18/2017 5:53:48 PM
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You are very kind and gracious as always. But it seems to me that maintaining a level playing field should be at the heart of transformation--I \am not sure why that is such a problem for the current FCC crew?
DHagar
4/18/2017 6:02:45 PM
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@mpouraryan, thanks!
To your point, however, if you recall there was great controversy that "regulating" access for all consumers would diminish the "new frontier" development opportunities for service providers and inhibit future growth. So I believe this is where the current Administration is going back to that view - only a bit more strident and focused.
mpouraryan
4/18/2017 6:04:15 PM
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Why Fix what is not broken?
DHagar
4/18/2017 6:11:35 PM
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@mpouraryan, if you are looking at what is working, that is great logic. If you are wanting to change and reverse courses (ie de-regulate for rapid company development and profitability in use of internet), you will step in and make change, which appears to be the current direction.
mpouraryan
4/18/2017 6:31:51 PM
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I will remind you that even Adam Smith himself noted that the invisible hand had to be guided. But what I hope you and the community agree that it is critical that we do not "wait" for guidance or regulations and continue to push on transformation. It will not be easy--because the giants seem to have the "ear" of the current crew in Washington. True competition and transformation entails a profound commitment to a level playing field. That seems not to be in the cards.
DHagar
4/18/2017 7:36:12 PM
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@mpouraryan, I clearly understand alternative views and in no way am defending the actions - just explaining the various views of those who share that belief.
My view is that sustainability requires economic progress that benefits the individual members of society and creates organic growth; otherwise you are feeding a zero-sum game that supports only winners-losers - which is not sustainable.
mpouraryan
4/19/2017 1:11:21 AM
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I believe @DHagar we're on the same page--unfortunately, the current mentality is not to create a sustainable strategy--but impose a will that is not sustainable as everything seems to be "chop chop"...destroying is easy--building is hard--isn't it?
DHagar
4/19/2017 5:43:51 PM
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@mpouraryan, most definitely. Reputations take years to develop and can be destroyed in minutes.
There has always been conflict and tension between "quick results" (that mirror progress) and true building and development.
Fortunately, our nation seems to endure these excursions and continues to "build" in the long term.
This article and the reported trends suggests a positive future.
mpouraryan
4/20/2017 12:13:45 PM
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I remain hopeful notwithstanding the continued onslaught by the current FCC crew in Washington--on which today's NY Times had a rather troubling report on.
DHagar
4/20/2017 7:30:02 PM
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@mpouraryan, that's the spirit!
And don't forget - there is always the next election - what is changed now can be changed further in the future!
I also think companies will be mindful of these swings and leverage their investments to not invest too heavily in one particular philosophy.
dcawrey
4/18/2017 3:25:03 PM
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@DHagar This is all a part of what bigger companies are talking about when they identify digitalization trends.
Often there is so much data being generated that these firms have to be able to accomodate big data. They don't have a choice.
DHagar
4/18/2017 5:50:17 PM
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@dcawrey, very true. Companies have to adjust to the growing technology demands to capture and store the data - but then figure out which data is of value and then begin to find ways to "digest" the data and deliver it in usable forms to the decision makers. This is a hugh transformation.
JohnBarnes
4/23/2017 10:13:33 PM
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DCawrey,
Big data/data science are I think in one of those odd historic moments that happen now and then in scientific fields (and sometimes others) in which the frontier or territory between established disciplines used to be somewhere quiet with very little going on (indeed that was often how the boundary ended up there), but has become an active "mid ocean ridge" with huge amounts of new ideas growing and developing. That's what happened when computation and number theory, electrical engineering, and quantum physics (specifically transistors) all began to intersect to create computer science; further back it was what happened when the chemists and the physicists discovered that the valence and the electrons they had been trying to understand were two names for the same thing; more recently the whole school of math now known as chaos theory arose at the intersection of at least a dozen traditional sciences and social sciences.
At the moment, most of the practitioners are still thinking in terms of the problems from their home territory, but that's only for a moment. In 15 years you'll have people who learn data science first, and then decide what field to go into with it (just as many engineers don't work in the fields they train for; it's important for them to be engineers and understand engineering, but many times the fundamental skill set is what matters).
JohnBarnes
4/23/2017 10:16:15 PM
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DHagar,
A late but sincere second on your pointing out what great stuff is coming out of Tableau. I've just recently started learning to use it and I'm somewhat reminded of what it was like to use a spreadsheet or a word processor for the first time, when those were new -- i.e. simultaneously amazed at the power and baffled by having to relearn your most fundamental ideas of the world.
DHagar
4/24/2017 6:36:41 PM
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@JohnBarnes, so true! It does test our recall and how well we developed and learned the basics before moving on. So much today is digested for us, this takes us back to the basics.
But it is also an endorsement for learning the basic principles and the tools from which computing, and programs operate. Even moving forward with AI will be based on basic theories for algorithms, etc.
This goes to show we could develop a basic digital literacy and better prepare people to get value - as opposed to treating each program with operational instructions?
JohnBarnes
4/24/2017 8:04:26 PM
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DHagar,
I was actually thinking of the way in which Tableau is based on statistical graph theory as opposed to either what some graphic designer from the art side thought looked cool (e.g. Periscope) or what some engineer needed to make the same graphs he'd been making since sophomore Engineering Stats class (e.g. DataDesk), or worse yet some scrambled unholy non-fusion congeries of both (I'm looking at you pointedly, Microsoft Excel charts). Tableau is actually easy to understand if you've got your statistical graph theory straight, and many of the terms on your screen will be from that new-ish discipline, but it will barely cooperate at all if you're trying to do something bogus.
Much the same way that word processors made writers think about sentence and paragraph mechanics more (because they took away the straitjacket of having to work linearly while privileging what you'd already done) and spreadsheets made people think about "what in general do I want to do?" instead of bogging down in "next, do I divide?"
The most intellectually innovative software has done that repeatedly (I'm thinking of things like BASIC, LISP, Photoshop): given people a capability they can only access by developing their own capacities correctly. I think Tableau is the latest in that honorable line.
DHagar
4/26/2017 6:41:23 PM
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@JohnBarnes, excellent analysis, as always! Which takes us back to the growing importace of knowledge of theories to effectively navigate the technology world. That continues to link with and gain value through "human intelligence" - the key in my view - in knowing and applying the theories and problem-solving concepts.
JohnBarnes
4/26/2017 9:39:12 PM
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DHagar,
We both get to agree with each other some more, and see different emphases. It's becoming more and more apparent that human intelligence is made up of extensive "subroutines" -- habits and structures of thought that we can use without having to consciously operate them (very much the way we can read for hours without directly thinking about recalling what sounds the letters represent or reminding ourselves to read from left to right, or understand a cartoon without reminding ourselves that the lines represent stylized shapes abstracted from boundaries between hues, saturations, or values).
The thing that some of that great software does is installs modules so that we don't think about letters (as we tended to do with typewriters) but about sentences; we don't think about numbers when we're setting up a spreadsheet as much as we think about the relations and structures of variables, i.e. generally and algebraically instead of particularly and arithmetically. And again, where most people up to now have tended to think of graphs either like an art director (i.e. what idea does this sell?) or like an engineer (i.e. how does the function behave?), Tableau drives people toward thinking like a statistical graph theorist, i.e. how can the psychologically most prominent features be aligned with the most mathematically salient issues?
Difficult as it is for me to admit, it's at least one area in which my generally discouraging species seems to be getting a bit smarter.
DHagar
4/27/2017 7:07:44 PM
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@JohnBarnes, well excellent anaysis! It will force us to "think" even about our thinking! (A natural new development direction for the people just learning how to learn, and a conscious "rethinking" for those of us who learned another method first.
This confirms the importance of education and knowledge - which thankfully still relies on our speciies - that is the advantage we hold!
Thanks for sharing these great thoughts!
clrmoney
4/14/2017 12:17:33 PM
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Big Data more in the future
Of course I'm not surprised with data being over 200 billion by 2020 with advanced technology and other resources they have to offer.
DHagar
4/14/2017 2:37:24 PM
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@clrmoney, true. There are more data points and, again, data is actually the product of technology - so this just feeds the sources, volume, and concept of data as an asset.
Big Data Throwdown: Top 10 Trends
This is very interesting but the graph explains it all. Very well understanding but with the big data throwdown is very misundertood sometimes and can be very tricky but this is a good point of the article and everybody should read it so they can understand. I agree with this.
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