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Big Data Week – Atlanta – 2014 Keynote Panel: The Road Map to Implementing Big Data

 

BDW13ATL: Can Big Data Mitigate Threats?

The Continuing Adventures of a Non-techie Writer Live Blogging Technology…

Big Data Week: Atlanta
Can Big Data Mitigate Threats to Public Safety and Security?

From what I do know about Big Data, this will be one of the most intriguing sessions of the week, sure to be of interest to Big Data techies and non-techies alike.
Big Data’s role in protecting us from another recession (fraud detection), petty crime, gang violence and more…international terrorism & domestic events like the Boston Marathon Bombing: Surveillance, Protection, Deterrence & Aftermath of crisis. (Spooky stuff)

Live Blogging Adventures: Big Data Week



In a week that includes my 7th grade virtual school student going to a very real-world testing location every day to take the Georgia CRCTs…AND my crazy mother packing up and moving from Georgia to Washington State…AND my 10th grade daughter conquering the world with power smashes and aced serves, playing high school varsity tennis as a sophomore — and winning! — in the state championship preliminaries…all this week…

It’s also BIG DATA WEEK:ATLANTA!!!
Hosted by Emcien Corp, a company with which I am intimately involved.
[Disclosure: My husband is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Emcien.]

This is a Very Big Deal, on a level that I, as a non-techie, could not have expected, in terms of international scope, big-corporate participation, the calendar of activities scheduled, and the number of people involved and so very, very enthusiastic about the Next New Thing in Technology: Big Data.

Big Data is everything, from the location & use of your cellphone, to online transactions, to what you put in your shopping cart at the grocery store, to healthcare, to your social media activities. It is mind-boggling, and in many ways downright creepy, how much information is out there, the extent of our individual & collective digital footprint, and how that information can be used.

So, in the midst of CRCTs, State high school tennis competition, and my crazy mom, counting down the days to high school graduation (exactly 30) and my oldest son’s departure to the Navy (OMG, exactly 60 days from today)…I am visiting the World of Big Data and live blogging my experiences as a non-techie writer in the techie world. Adventures indeed:

The Future with Big Data: Atlanta Kickoff Event

See the prelim info: Live Blogging Adventures: Big Data Week.

Let’s make it clear: I am a Lifestyle, Humor & Book Reviews/Literary Rebel writer. My Live Blogging and most-recent reporting experience for Patch Media has been primarily in Education & Civic Issues. I am a non-techie girl, living in a very tech-geeky world, between my husband, the CTO, and our very tech-savvy three children (ages 18, 15 & 12).

So here goes Big Data Week:Atlanta and The Rebel Housewife®
(remember: non-techie) Live Blogging Technology for the first time (unless you count the Rebel Review – Kindle: Love or Hate?).

[P.S. I don’t know why the early blog-entry tags carry my usual “atlantaparent” screen name, and why I couldn’t go back and change it, but there you go. Sorry.]

NEW LOOK Coming Soon…

Just a note to let you know The Rebel Housewife website will have a new look very soon. I am having such a hard time with this! I love the pink circles & dots and the elements of my website, which have not changed for…well, a number of years.

While I like to call it “classic” or “retro,” my website provider tells me my style is now “legacy,” which is, apparently, another word for obsolete. There are so many new bells & whistles available, which will make it easier for me to post & update and easier for my readers to interact & share, but I have to update to a newer template style in order to use and offer the new features.

Here’s a sobering thought: When I first started this website in June 2004, there was no Facebook or Twitter, no Google+ or Pinterest. Can you imagine?

My website solution, Squarespace.com, has been with me since the very beginning (and I, theirs), when I was a non-techie, newly-published author, searching for a way to have a website, and a blog, without having to be at the mercy of a techie-geek web developer for every new post or every change I wanted to make. (I say that affectionately, of course, since my hubby is my #1 techie-geek web developer.) I learned how to do it myself! With a lot of help from Anthony Casalena (from his dorm room, apparently). Thank you, Anthony.

Squarespace has come a long way, and so have I, just not as quickly. They have just launched a brand-new, revolutionary website development solution, Squarespace 6, and here I am, making the personal leap from v4 to v5, which I guess happened…well, a number of years ago.

Change is SO HARD, but here it comes…

See you soon!