Oh casts our currentstate of affairs as lying somewhere between Analyst 1.0, the state of maturity that the last generation of tools got us to, and Analyst 2.0, the eventual state in which big data will be much easier for a wide group of people to use.
Yet, hard as it may be to believe given the currentstate of affairs, a trip to London and Number 10 Downing Street last week has given me renewed optimism that changes may be starting to bubble from the bottom up, in small yet significant ways.