Is that well-informed confidence, global swagger on a great quarter, or a sign of a bubble in big data and big analytics?

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Is he predicting a Big Data Bubble?

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What big data bubble?

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We can recognize the thought bubble as an unspoken assumption and seek new data to test it for validity.

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What you say just shows how much of the bubble you are in, go look at polling data in Silicon Valley or Redmond, or just google it and you can find several hi profile leaders of your member organizations that Openly support Obama.

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But with so much data to work with, expect more revelations to eventually bubble to the surface.

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Amid talk of a bubble in internet stocks Facebook losing its magic touch even before going public, data on internet advertising show the web is booming with cash.

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