Getting an Intuition for Big Data

IEEE Software Editor-in-Chief Forrest Shull discusses the importance of building reliable systems to interpret big data. In addition, he discusses the IBM Impact 2013 Unconference; the Software Engineering Institute's SATURN 2013 conference in which the IEEE Software Architecture in Practice Award went to Simon Brown of Coding the Architecture, for his presentation titled "The Conflict between Agile and Architecture: Myth or Reality" and the IEEE Software New Directions Award went to Darryl Nelson of Raytheon for his presentation titled, "Next-Gen Web Architecture for the Cloud Era." He also welcomes Professor Rafael Prikladnicki of the Computer Science School at PUCRS, Brazil, and Chief Software Economist Walker Royce of IBM's Software Group to the IEEE Software Advisory Board. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/JrQorWS5m6w is a video interview in which IEEE Software editor in chief Forrest Shull speaks with Paul Zikopoulos, Director--IBM Information Management Technical Professionals, Competitive Database, and Big Data at IBM, about the potentials of mining big data. Zikopoulos will deliver a keynote at Software Experts Summit 2013 on 17 July in Redmond, Washington. The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/NHHThAeONv8 is a video interview in which IEEE Software editor in chief Forrest Shull speaks with Catherine Plaisant and Megan Monroe of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory about big data information visualization and its applications to software development. The third Web extra at http://youtu.be/NqXE0ewoTKA is a video overview of the IBM Impact 2013 Unconference, sponsored by IEEE Software magazine, an event specifically designed for developers that featured Grady Booch and Tim O'Reilly as keynote speakers.