Audrey Watters on Data Science in 2011

Audrey Watters wrote a good article about Data Science in 2011 for O’Reilly Radar.

Audrey cites three big events / trends:

• Hadoop, an open source distributed computing framework, became ubiquitous.

• More Data, More Privacy Problems – citing the Apple scandal as an example.

• Open Data at an Inflection Point. (With a great shoutout to my friends at BuzzData!)

Editorial:

• Even Hadoop has warts (gasp!?!111shiftoneone), but so far there are good anecdotes about it working out well for many companies, and, you can expect a few horror stories in 2012.

• The devices we’re carrying and our own behaviors are generating more data than ever – and people – that means you – need to be aware of when they’re consenting to sharing that data.

• Open Data represents an awesome opportunity that I’m very optimistic about, and so much work to make data effectively accessible needs to be undertaken.

***

I’m Christopher Berry.
I tweet about analytics @cjpberry
I write at christopherberry.ca