Johann Romefort

Webcom-Montreal schedule visualization

I will speak at Webcom Montreal on may 11th about The Future of Data Visualization.

While working on my slides I came across Wordle, a nifty tool to generate cloud visualizations of a webpage or text corpus. 

I took the schedule page of the conference and generated the following representation for you to enjoy: 

[French] Slides de ma presentation #WebComMT à propos de BigData, Analytics et de l’entreprise ‘Data-driven’

Webcom-Montreal is approaching. Come and see me talking about Big Data

I will be speaking at Webcom-Montreal on November 17th, on the solutions 2.0 track about how the social web is driving the emergence of the “Web of Data”.

Mining massive datasets was, until recently, a pretty complex activity that only big companies like Google or Amazon could afford. Today, however, start-up companies are using the same tools to better understand their users, make recommendations about products, and more generally drive their business by analyzing users data. We’ll see how the rise of the Social Web and the new constraints it implies for data management, is pushing the creation of a “Big Data Stack”, but also how the democratization of the Cloud made large-scale data processing available to the masses. We’ll discuss when we can start talking about “Big Data”, what technologies are involved, and what kind of competitive advantage you could leverage by becoming “data-driven”. We’ll analyze potential road blocks to deploying Big Data solutions in the enterprise, how to solve them, and examine the range of needs you could have for processing large amounts of data. Finally, we’ll discuss the emergence of the Web of Data, what it means for our everyday life, and how it’s paving the way for a more intelligent web.

Very interesting slides on Company Culture by Netflix’s Reed Hastings

Seesmic Web and GWT

1200 tweets in a single Seesmic Web window!

I m on for competing for the world record of the most tweets displayed on a single computer. Beat me if you can ! All that made possible thanks to Seesmic Web and its list mode !

Link to the full screenshot

Follow me @romefort