Last month Tom Davenport, renowned international speaker and author of 'Big Data @ Work' came to Dublin as a guest of SAS Ireland. During the event, there was a lively conversation on Twitter, with many great questions answered by John Farrelly and Alan Gormley from SAS Ireland. Here are some of the highlights.
@PS_I_T @SAS_Ireland: Hadoop is making it more affordable for organisations to experiment and get started with big data analytics, faster!
— John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 17, 2014
@AislingMcCarth @SAS_Ireland Hi Aisling, this is lot more affordable than you might think and a great way to start: http://t.co/dNh0g7M5nA — John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 17, 2014
@spkeat @SAS_Ireland Focus on the decision and action, so analysis about outcome. Finding visualisation really helpful to business users.
— Alan Gormley (@aligisme) September 17, 2014
@spkeat @SAS_Ireland: Combination of visualisation, big data, hadoop and we think SAS!!! :) interested in your thoughts... — John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 17, 2014
@BradyMise Let the #data tell the story, but the context is provided by the business. We will explain further in an upcoming blog!
— SAS Ireland (@SAS_Ireland) September 17, 2014
@markinlutt They should always be working together! — SAS Ireland (@SAS_Ireland) September 17, 2014
@AislingMcCarth @SAS_Ireland; Big question! takes more than a tweet! you might find this useful: http://t.co/FmGc8IF4bC
— John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 17, 2014
#SASselfie Want to see SAS Visual Analytics? Ask @zakitariq24 or @CiaranNevin for a demo in the lobby #bigdataatwork pic.twitter.com/SiBjUgdK6d
— SAS Ireland (@SAS_Ireland) September 10, 2014
@MartinMcMahon10 @SAS_Ireland Depends on industry etc. but the key is to monitor all models. Short answer is not long - months usually — Alan Gormley (@aligisme) September 17, 2014
@colinmas @SAS_Ireland ; Both! A number of the new analytics courses are starting to recognise this very issue. Watch this space!
— John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 17, 2014
@ikellep @SAS_Ireland @SAS Some. Key is to keep key decisions internal and outsource ones which need less internal business knowledge. — Alan Gormley (@aligisme) September 17, 2014
@mcquit @SAS_Ireland Both feasible and preferable. You can be in a seg of people who would like x but have no need / desire for it now.
— Alan Gormley (@aligisme) September 17, 2014
@spkeat @SAS_Ireland Value comes from action. No analysis should be done if you are not going to use it. — Alan Gormley (@aligisme) September 17, 2014
@phelimoconnell @SAS_Ireland big question! you have to identify the problems/opportunities, prioritise and decide where to start, and START!
— John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 17, 2014
@klennon19771 @SAS_Ireland and communication skill but everything has to focus on business problems, or no one will listen — Alan Gormley (@aligisme) September 17, 2014
@kieranbrennan @SAS_Ireland I think it comes down to a combination of 'time to value' and 'business sponsorship' - prioritise accordingly
— John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 17, 2014
@alanmcgra @SAS_Ireland Tools will isolate predictive variables. Analyst needs to think about how the data relevant to the problem.
— Alan Gormley (@aligisme) September 17, 2014
@raineyp @SAS_Ireland: its an evolving space, given the skills shortage one that I think will grow. My advise is take a hybrid approach...
— John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 17, 2014
@SmartGovtData @SAS_Ireland: the Irish government are preparing the legislation to enable data sharing, public consultation closes in 5 days
— John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 10, 2014
@PhilMale @SAS_Ireland: we discussed this with @tdav yesterday and it is a huge enabler that is changing the traditional DW landscape
— John Farrelly (@John_Frrlly) September 10, 2014
Cool visualisation of the #bigdataatwork discussion taking place at the @tdav event in the @IMI_Ireland @SAS_Ireland pic.twitter.com/PDJLnNrxJW
— Ciarán Nevin (@CiaranNevin) September 10, 2014
Thank you all so much for being part of the #bigdataatwork discussion with @tdav! Here are today's topics! pic.twitter.com/3fhkUBrC8q
— SAS Ireland (@SAS_Ireland) September 10, 2014
Blog post compiled by Phil Male from SAS UK and Lauren Brennan from SAS Ireland.
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Maybe I'm supposed to have something clever to say about Big Data ... but I really liked the #sasSelfie the best! :-)