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James Kobielus
Big Data Evangelist
As IBM's big data evangelist, James Kobielus is IBM Senior Program Director, Product Marketing, Big Data Analytics solutions. He is an industry veteran, a popular speaker and social media participant, and a thought leader in Big Data, Hadoop, enterprise data warehousing, advanced analytics, business intelligence, data management, and next best action technologies
The Maturing of Big Data: From Herding Cats to Taming Tigers
February 7, 2013
You can’t declare something mature until it has stopped developing. By that criterion, the big-data market is far from mature. It continues to foster an impressive amount of innovation into new types of databases, analytical approaches and applications that infuse data-driven optimization into every aspect of our existence.
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Recap of Tweetchat on Big Data in the Cloud
February 4, 2013
Big data in the cloud was the focus of a recent spirited tweetchat.
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Healthcare Personalization in the Age of Ubiquitous “Omics”
January 31, 2013
“Omics” such as genomics and proteomics provide new big data sources
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Next Best Action in the Internet of Things
January 24, 2013
“Next best action” is the silent decision-automation bus for the Internet of Things, enabling the integration pattern for never-ending optimization, leveraging advanced analytics and big data.
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Data Scientist: Closing the Talent Gap
January 17, 2013
Nobody doubts that companies everywhere will continue to ramp up their hiring, recruitment and training of data scientists. But there seems to be a growing alarm that we won’t have enough data scientists to go around. Read More
Koby’s Big Data Predictions for 2013
January 3, 2013
Will this be the year of the “big data hybrid”? What will become of cross-scale architectures and next best action? Will governance finally take center stage? And will data scientists still be sexy? James Kobielus looks at all this and more in his predictions for 2013.
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Data Scientist: Sexy Is as Sexy Does
December 10, 2012
What's sexy about data science? It has been dubbed the "sexiest occupation" of the 21st century, but you don't see hordes of autograph-seekers and paparazzi flitting around many data scientists. James Kobielus looks at why data science is hot.
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Next Best Action in Social Business
November 27, 2012
Analytics and “next best action” decision-making models can be a central component of a social business strategy, helping to improve interaction and engagement with your followers.
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Data Scientist: Potential Superstars in Prediction Markets
November 9, 2012
Prediction markets are where data scientists will attain superstar status. Read More
Next Best Action Rides the Best-Fit Model
November 6, 2012
In a recent LinkedIn discussion group posting, I sketched out a five-layer framework for low-late Read More
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