[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/19/2018 02:22 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/19/2018 12:16 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 8/18/2018 11:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 8/18/2018 1:13 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> In article <mailman.0.1534605514.19671.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
>>>> Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> DevOps needs to be defined because in most large enterprises I have 
>>>>> been
>>>>> in the last 10 years (including Federal Govt), this concept is just a
>>>>> water cooler discussion topic.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed.  Sort of like big data.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really
>>>> knows how
>>>> to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone
>>>> claims they
>>>> are doing it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---Dan Ariely
>>> Big data is being used.
>>>
>>> Intelligence agencies, social media, retail, health care,
>>> election campaigns, science, sports etc..
>>
>> Don't have a clue what "big data" actually is.
> 
> I believe the traditional definition is the 4 V's:
> * volume
> * variety
> * velocity
> * veracity
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data
> 
> I would probably phrase it as: "huge amount of different data
> that individually is trivial but when combined provides a lot
> of insight".
> 
>>                                      Now, if it's the social media 
>> junk, I think calling it "data" is sort of a stretch ...
> 
> In many ways social media big data is some of the most sensitive
> data (and at least by some measures therefore the most important data).
> 
> If we look at average Joe and what big data exists on him:
> 
> NSA has crunched all his phone connections and emails - and
> just concluded that he has never been in contact with any
> foreign spies or terrorists.
> 
> His favorite supermarket chain has crunched all his
> shopping data for a decade or two - and know exactly what
> he likes to eat and what laundry detergent he prefers.
> 
> Facebook has crunched all his FB page views, his FB likes, his
> location when visiting facebook and all the pages using FB
> that he has visited - and knows his friends, his hobbies,
> his political opinions, his religious beliefs, his sexual preferences,
> where he has physical been every day or hour the last decade - they
> know everything.
> 
> http://wumo.com/img/wumo/2018/07/wumo5b438d7861e152.54362870.jpg
> 

See my previous comment.  Like it or not it is still
garbage in - garbage out.  Even Nostradamus couldn't
accurately draw any of those conclusions from my FB
traffic.

bill