The next big thing: WeeData
‘Big Data’ has a problem, and that problem is its name. Dig deep into the big data ecosystem, or spend any time at all talking with its practitioners, and you should quickly start hitting the Vs. Initially Volume, Velocity and Variety, the Vs rapidly bred like rabbits. Now we have a plethora of new V-words,...
A podcast with Flip Kromer of InfoChimps… and the end of an era
I’ve been following InfoChimps for some time, intrigued by their aspiration to build a marketplace for data that combines the free with the paid. Thanks to the team at Jones-Dilworth (honestly, does Josh have any clients that aren’t interesting?) I managed to get some time with founder Philip (Flip) Kromer and Joseph Kelly whilst over...
A podcast with Felix Van de Maele, discussing Collibra
Steve Ardire introduced me to Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Brussels-based Collibra, at the Defrag conference in Denver last month. We met again at the European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC), where Collibra won the seedcamp event. I spoke with Felix recently to record a podcast exploring the issues that Collibra sets out to address...
‘Why Linked Data?’ presentation at Defrag Conference
The presentation I just delivered here at Defrag is now on slideshare, in case you want a look.
Come to Denver in November
Defrag is a conference that I’ve been watching for a while now. I was extremely disappointed when an opportunity to attend last year fell through, and therefore delighted when things aligned better this year. Trans-Atlantic airline pricing being what it is, I’ve even ended up with a few days in Denver afterward… Eric Norlin has...
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