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Timber!: A process centric approach to chopping down a tree or new business project.

Chopping down a tree is a lot like taking on a business project (e.g., for me that could mean delivering a large software application, creating a new artificial intelligence platform, or building a company). I am on vacation this week and decided…

Plays Well With Others: Your Team of AIs

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"Alexa, how are you different than Siri?" "I'm more of a home-body" I'm away from my desk, so I guess I can't ask Alexa. No problem, I've got an iPhone in my pocket. "Hey Siri, what's the status of my Amazon order?" "I wish I could, but…

An Agile Story (pun intended)

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While working with eBay Enterprise on a large multi-company effort to create a marketing platform, I saw first-hand the struggle around effective project management. I played Scrum Master for our development team and immersed myself into the…

Complex Event Data Analysis and Processing

Schema-on-what?

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Recently, a customer asked us to help transition a set of data flows from an overwhelmed RDBMS to a “Big Data” system. These data flows had a batch dynamic, and there was some comfort with Pig Latin in-house, so this made for an ideal target…

The Data Architecture Lifecycle

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It’s a very exciting time to be in the data world, with new and groundbreaking technologies released seemingly every day. There is every temptation to pick up today’s new shiny, find an excuse to throw it into production, and call it an…

Not Just Open Source: 7 High-Value Areas To Consider Commercial Components For Big Data Architectures

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The Big Data landscape is largely dominated by powerful free open source technologies. Different configurations and applications of these technologies seemingly consume the majority of mindshare, and it can be easy to lose sight of commercial…

FTC & Big Data Bias Warnings

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A recent WSJ article echoes an FTC report released last Wednesday warning of the possible consequences of bias in Big Data applications. The article identifies a number of valid concerns around privacy, equal opportunity, and accuracy. It also…

Enterprise Architecture Metadata Lifecycle

The Metadata Lifecycle

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When designing an enterprise architecture for business intelligence, advanced analytics, and other datacentric applications, it is often useful to capture major data flows. This may require some research into use cases and tooling and even…

A Big Data Analysis Paradox

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There is a nuance about Big Data analysis. It’s really about small data. While this may seem confusing and counter to the whole Big Data "movement", small data is the product of Big Data analysis. This is not a new concept, nor is it unfamiliar…

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Timber!: A process centric approach to chopping down a tree or new business project.

Plays Well With Others: Your Team of AIs

An Agile Story (pun intended)

Schema-on-what?

The Data Architecture Lifecycle

Not Just Open Source: 7 High-Value Areas To Consider Commercial Components For Big Data Architectures

FTC & Big Data Bias Warnings

The Metadata Lifecycle

A Big Data Analysis Paradox

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