Link Roundup – October 15, 2012
This week, we inaugurate a new category for the Link Roundup – Cloud Computing. I was having trouble putting Cloud-based articles in a consistent place, so why not build them their own room? It helps the economy, eh?
With that, here’s a few things that you may have missed last week…
Big Data
Big Data Projects Lack Big Budgets (CIO) – It’s just supposed to process itself, right?
Telefonica Wants to Turn Its Mobile Data into a Big Data Business (TechCrunch) – A European telecommunications giant creates a new business unit to make something out of its huge data stores…
IBM Extends PureSystems Family to Help Clients Tame Big Data (IBM) – An offshoot of the Watson project, perhaps? More here and here…
What Will We Call Big Data in 2015? (Competing on Decisions) – Reminding us that “big” is a relative term…
You Can’t Fix Stupid, and Other Arguments Against Big Data (ITBusinessEdge) – A backlash against the backlash against Big Data…
Big Data: A Short History (Foreign Policy) – A concise historical view of how we got here…
We Need to Prevent Insights from Dying in the Big Data Avalanche (GigaOm) – Make sure you look through all the data you’re collecting…
What Types of Activities Are Suited to Hadoop? (Data Roundtable) – David Loshin goes a little deeper on this hot topic…
Financial Comparison of Big Data MPP Solution and Data Warehouse Appliance (Wikibon) – What solution os better, from a financial and time-to-market perspective…
The Myth of Information Overload (TDAN) – A discussion on learning to be a better information consumer…
Big Data, Small Segments (IBM) – Using ever-larger amounts of data to serve ever-smaller groups of customers…
SAS Analytics Server to Use Hadoop Distributed File System (HPCWire) – One of the strongest analytic tools out there starts to use Big Data…
Hortonworks Brings the Power of Apache Hadoop Direct to Business Intelligence and Analytics Users (MarketWatch) – An ODBC driver for an unstructured data set…interesting…
The Big Data Hammer? (Data Quality Chronicle) – More hammers in search of nails…
Cold, Bold & Old: Real World Examples on Wide Range Use of Big Data (Silicon Angle) – Several instances of companies effectively using Big Data…
What Kind of Big Data Problem Do You Have? (SAS) – Jim Davis describes different aspects of Big Data and how to apply the technology effectively…
Big Data, Meet the Huge Data That Will Shape Your Future (Information Management) – An interview with Bill Kramer on the data output of supercomputing initiatives…
Insurers Hit the Underwriting Mark with Big Data (Insurance & Technology) – The companies that take advantage of this new technology quickly will reap significant benefits…
Will IT Be Ready When Marketing Asks for Big Data? (Inside Tech Talk) – A hint – probably not…
How Klout Turned Big Data into Giant Data (Klout Blog) – Expanding social media provider outgrows its current infrastructure, explains how it changed things for the better…
Making Sense of Big Data from Supercomputers (Signal Online) – A case study in big data analytics…
Why is Big Data Still a Marketing Headache? (MemeBurn) – Because the data is still difficult to get to…
The NoSQL Movement – What Is It? (Dataversity) – A nice little history of this new data management paradigm…
Big Data and the Hardware That Loves It(ITBusinessEdge) – A look at a few hardware systems that excel at handling Big Data…
The Graph Database: One Option for Exploring Big Data (ITBusinessEdge) – A nice description of another method for analyzing Big Data…
Paypal Architect Warns Against Big Data Hype (IT News Australia) – Another argument, more forceful than most, against re-architecting systems just because Big Data is the “new” thing…
Is Big Data Helping or Hurting Your Sales Reps? (Smart Data Collective) – I guess the answer depends on a) if you’re using it, and b) if you’re analyzing it instead of just collecting it…
The Driving Force Behind Big Data: Data Connectivity (Smart Data Collective) – The use of versatile data drivers is key to integrating Big Data into your architecture…
You Don’t Have to “Go Big” to Get Started with Big Data (Smart Data Collective) – Incremental development is often the smart move, but it’s hard to ignore the words…
The Emerging Big Data Ecosystem (Smart Data Collective) – A few sage words on the new paradigm from Dr. Barry Devlin, one of the developers of the data warehouse…
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing for Mid-Sized Businesses (OCDQBlog) – An audio interview with Ed Abrams of IBM MidMarket…
So Far, So Good: Fortune 500 CIOs Seem Happy with Cloud Computing (Forbes) – A quick survey on early adopters of cloud computing solutions…
Open vs. Closed: The Cloud Wars (New York Times) – Hopefully, neither side “wins” because what’s good for one may not be good for another…
Cloud Computing: Here We Go Again (ZDNet) – Third verse, same as the first…
The New Wave of Data as a Service (Dataversity) – Here it comes…Why collect it if you can buy it?
Why Cloud Computing Needs Service Governance (Toolbox.com) – Another in the series of arguments that “<Insert technology here> needs governance to succeed”…
Data Governance
Russia: MDM Perspectives, 2012 (Hub Solution Design) – A look at the state of play in a major European market…
The 4 C’s of Data Management (Musings of a Data Geek) – An easy way to understand the journey of data in your organization…
The Seven Deadly Sins of Information Management Part 3: Sloth (Mike 2.0) – Phil Simon gets off the couch because he feels like it…
The Virtues of Kick Starting Your Data Governance Program with a Small Set of Attributes (Dataversity) – Sunil Soares discusses a great starting process for your program…
Is Social MDM Going the Wrong Way? (Data Roundtable) – Jim Harris discusses the idea that companies using social media to enhance existing customer information are thinking of things backward…
Five Steps to Choosing the Right Data (Musings of a Data Geek) – A quick list of things to consider if the right data source is not identified for you…
Organizational Considerations for Data Governance (Informatica) – A suggestion for an effective organizational structure for data governance…
Next-Gen Data Scientists (Columbia University) – A list of desirable traits for the new field of Data Scientist…One of the items: “Next-Gen Data Scientists are highly skilled and ought to get paid well enough that they don’t have to worry too much about money.” Are you listening, boss? 
Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking (Harvard Business Review) – I would think the people at Harvard would know the difference between material (data) and activity (thinking)…
Data Professionals Far from Endangered (ZDNet Australia) - Big bank spends 10 months finding a data architect, is glad that it did…
Healthcare Analytics Through a Clinical Hub (IBM) – A webinar about how MDM helps analytics in healthcare…
MDM Hub Architecture Styles: Consolidated, Part 1 (Data Management Blog) – A short introduction to one of the main methods of building an MDM hub…
Introducing Web Platform (NextWeb) – A collaborative documentation project for web development standards…it’s about time…
Data Quality
A Good Example of Semantic Inconsistency (Data Roundtable) – It pays to make sure your data matches your assumptions about it…
Data Quality: Practising What We Preach (KDR Recruitment) – Lessons learned from a cleansing project on HR candidate data…And yes, it’s a UK spelling, you quality gurus…
The Basics of International Address Hygiene (WorldVu) – An introduction to terms and techniques on this increasingly important subject…
Data Quality: The Fear Factor (Data Quality Pro) – A data quality program should be sold on benefit, not fear…
Data Profiling vs. Data Quality Assessment – Resolving the Confusion (Data Quality Pro) – There are other people who can’t tell the difference between material (profiling) and activity (assessment)?
Nobody’s Perfect (Melissa Data) – This is true, and it only becomes an issue when people are expected to be…
Linked Data
Free and Open Public Sector Master Data (Liliendahl on Data Quality) – The government of Denmark makes “basic” public data freely accessible…The first of many, let’s hope…
The Knowledge Revolution is Not About Big Data, It’s About Well-Connected Little Data (Forbes) – Relationships are more important than volume…
Unravelling the Data for Development Muddle (Techsoup Global) – A useful set of definitions for the current buzzwords in data management…
Archaeology Linked Data Linked Service (Archaeology Data Service) – An announcement on a new linked data store from the UK, for the historically inclined…
How Linked Data Impacts Enterprise Access, Integration, and Management, Part 1 (Kinsgley Idehen) – A concise description and example of using Linked Data in your organization…
Toward Linked Financial Data (X.Commerce) – Payment messaging enhanced by new technology…
Decentralized Innovation for Financial Data (X.Commerce) – A continuation of the previous article, specifying work by W3C on a Linked Data standard…
Embedding Linked Data Invisibly into Web Pages (NISO) – An upcoming webinar on linked data and Drupal…
Tracking World Hunger with Linked Data Service (SemanticWeb.com) – Any use of technology to help with huge societal issues is welcome…
How Can Open Data Help Rebuild Trust in Business? (Open Economics) – Well, it would help if people running these businesses weren’t crooked in the first place…Did I say that out loud?
Semantics
Dickens Joins the Programmable Web (Wall Street Journal) – Enhance your corporate data with classic English literature!
From Visual to Semantic Multimedia Analysis (Slideshare) – A slide deck from a presentation about finding things without text…
Discovering a New World of Semantic Tech for Big Data Challenges (SemanticWeb.com) – How semantic techniques can enhance Big Data analysis…
Using Social and Web Technologies in Disaster Responses (PhysOrg) – A short write-up on a conference on this important subject…
Presidential Debates 2012: Semantically Speaking (Cogito) – A breakdown of the US presidential debates thus far in semantic terms…
Keynote Video and Updates from the Amsterdam Fire Department (SemanticWeb.com) – I attended this presentation…Fascinating what they are doing with semantics and linked data in the cause of public service…
Unifying a Fragmented “Internet of Things” (Programmable Web) – The next big opportunity for developers…
A Fertile Field for Semantic Tech: Social CRM (SemanticWeb.com) – Semantic techniques are just what this industry space craves…
Training Computers to Understand the Human Brain (Medical Xpress) – Hopefully they won’t get smart enough to wonder why they are under our control…
Making the Most of a Semantic Search-Based Job Market (SemanticWeb.com) – Would this be a reason to revisit Monster.com?
Shell Plans to Save 100s of Millions with Semantic Search (Computer Weekly) – Training engineers faster and more efficiently…
Facebook Cutting Back on Open Graph Actions (SenamticWeb.com) – Too much openness here leads to spam…
Mark Cuban Invests in Text Analytics Co LinguaSys (IT News Online) – Say what you want bout Mr. Cuban, but he has a track record of being right…
Yummly Serves Up the Ultimate Kitchen Tool (MarketWatch) – Combining two great loves of my life…
Did I miss anything? Please let me know in the comments, and have a great week!
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