James Dixon, CTO of Pentaho is promoting a new concept for organizing the big data that comes in from the wide world of connected devices.

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In viewing our universe by way of models, we can build a hypothesis as a picture, visual data organizing itself more easily than word-based modeling (either as sound or text), and visualization lends itself to extremely large models.

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Back then, it was obvious that search was going to be a very important niche for organizing the firehose of data on the Web.

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The top layer is a 48 GB cache for organizing the writing of data for better utilization of the flash memory in the other layers.

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The secret to packing that much information on such small real estate--about 15 times denser than the densest data storage device currently in existence--is self-assembly, or tricking the disk's materials into organizing into an array of data-storing dots packed far tighter than what could be accomplished with current techniques.

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It focused on eight different skill areas to measure leadership capability: initiating activity and deciding, supporting and cooperating, interacting with and presenting to others, analyzing and interpreting data, creating and conceptualizing ideas, organizing and executing plans, adapting and coping with others, and finally, performing and achieving.

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