People are big data too. But only when they engage with the digital world via decades-old desktop monitors. That’s when arched doorways open to the big data superhighway (watch out for elephants!).
Those who have “transitioned” from meatspace to bigdataspace often carry briefcases that contain little amounts of data in a sea of bigger data.
So who are the ghosts in our machines? We are. Go now and walk that binary/fishnetty lane in peace. Your desktops have set you free.
“Bobby felt so cold…so…alone. While all his friends, Tammy, Greg, Max, got eaten by the glowing blue, rather thick, iPad, Bobby was left alone. The only string of binary numbers not to get eaten. Eaten, or was it vomited, by the iPad. It was hard to say.
Bobby was doomed to a solitary life, streaming his binary across the top of a Mercator projection.
Forever alone.”
Don’t go chasing binary waterfalls.
This one from IBM. The spinning griddy vortex of data. The image in so nuanced, so layered. The grid implies structure, but the swirliness implies an unstructuredness to the structure. The kind of structure that only an IBM consultant could suss out for you. And in that structure there is data. But not the binary data of yore. No, it’s regular ol’ digits. Because this image accompanies a white paper to be read by executives. And they don’t get binary.
What’s better than a word cloud? A 3D word cloud of words like “Framework.”
Don’t forget to toss an iPhone down that big data tunnel. Big data comes from small devices.
Big data in the cloud, where the cloud is both a cloud and a word cloud!
Visual poetry that.
This cloud is also visible in the night sky, illuminated by all of our cloud-connected laptops whose screens seem much smaller than their keyboards.
The binary tunnel is back. This time with a silver dude flying in it. Is he flying toward Hadoop? Toward increased data-driven revenue? The world may never know.
Big data is using two arrows instead of one. Although, I feel like the arrows should have been bigger to get the bigness of big data across.
Don’t just do big data. Ride the big data wave.