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Government Technology - Nevada DGS 2015 Presentation - Making Big Data Work by Alan Simon
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Making Big Data Work for Your Organization
Alan Simon Zunesis Senior Fellow, Analytics & Data Management December 3, 2015
© 2015 Alan Simon. All Rights Reserved
Introductions
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Select experience • Arizona Attorney General’s Office • Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) • Pennsylvania Department of Health • Wisconsin Department of Administration • Santa Clara County (CA) • Washington (State) Department of Early Learning • Arizona State University • USAF • Department of Defense
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Check out this mission statement…
• “Our investigators need instantaneous access to a broad range of data at their fingertips…not only all direct person-to-person and person-to-business relationships, but also relationships several levels removed. The same direct and indirect relationships to assets also need to be immediately available to our investigators…”
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Nope! • Arizona Attorney General’s Office, 1979-1980
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What do we want from analytics and big data?
Data-Driven Insights
Insight-Driven “Better” Decisions
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Proposition:
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Big data success isn’t “automatic”!!! 9
However…
7 KEYS TO BIG DATA SUCCESS
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“The art of the now possible” • Put deferred solutions back on the table
and also
• Reengineer and rebuild old, overly complicated solutions
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2001-2002: The Anthrax Attacks
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Bioterrorism fears go viral !
• Anthrax • Smallpox • Plague • Viral hemorrhagic fever • …?????
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Worries about timeliness of response • Many bioterrorism agents show symptoms…but cannot be
confirmed for several more days • In meantime outbreaks could get much worse • The “solution” – a concept known as
Syndromic Surveillance
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Interdiction
Patterns
Reports
Hypotheses
Analysis
Circa 2001-2002 solution:
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But if I could figure out time travel…
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“Big data” doesn’t just mean Hadoop!
• Hadoop is certainly important but also… • HANA • MongoDB • Columnar and other specialized databases • Pretty much any “post-relational” data management technology!
• Also: “big” data is relative! 17
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Hadoop is evolving at light speed!
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https://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/09/kudu-new-apache-hadoop-storage-for-fast-analytics-on-fast-data/ http://www.infoworld.com/article/2986675/hadoop/cloudera-kudu-hdfs-hbase-in-one.html
Evolution often yields confusion…
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http://sdsblog.com/2015/10/12/kudu/
Traditional BI and DW not out of the picture…at least for now…
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Hadoop data staging area AND ANALYTICS SANDBOX
Relational
EDW
Sqoop Flume …
Sqoop
Sqoop Flume …
Hadoop as “supersized data staging area” in front of EDW
Hadoop EDW: staging + user-accessible data
Hadoop/data lake as next-generation EDW
Sqoop Flume …
Sqoop Flume …
Prescriptive analytics are critically important!
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Category Purpose
Descriptive analytics
Tell me what happened, and why Tell me what is happening right now, and why
Predictive analytics
Tell me what is likely to happen, and why
Discovery analytics
Tell me something important…even without me asking specific questions!
Prescriptive analytics
Tell me what my options are Tell me what I should do
The Analytics Continuum
The prescriptive analytics framework Detect Events
Categorize and Process Events
Apply Analytical Models
Form Hypotheses
Take Initial Actions
Update and Correlate Data
Prove or Disprove Hypotheses
Take Prescribed Actions
Analytics BPM +
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Why?
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The hard work doesn’t go away with big data
• You still need: • Master data management
• Data standardization
• Data governance
• Data quality management
• …
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Your big data strategy and architecture must also include your social media listening and engagement
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Everyone is Connected! • Constituents • Service Consumers • Residents • Voters • Veterans
This is the world we now live in… Your Citizens are Online
Communications Manager Public Info. Office Public Services
iWeSocial IQ Social Media Listening Platform iWeSocial
Research Analyst
Public Web:
iWeSocial Insights (monthly readout)
Government Organizations
Focus: Services, Security, Sentiment
Social Listening for State and Local Government Technology + Human Analysis = Actionable Insight
Social Listening Use Case: McCarran International Airport
Business Return: • Discover what’s
being said about the services you provide: ü Sentiment ü Problem areas ü What's
working
• Crisis Management – listen for spikes in conversation in real-time
• Increase engagement by better understanding the conversation
HOW DO YOU GET STARTED?
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Good news: the classic approach still works!
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Assessment
Strategy
Business Architecture
Technology Architecture
Roadmap
During assessment, focus on:
• Both opportunities and “points of pain” • What you cannot do today • What is challenging and cumbersome to do today • What has been “put into mothballs” • “Blue skies and green fields”
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Big data and analytics assessment
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Assessment • Analytics continuum • Today’s technology • In-progress initiatives
• Hypotheses vs. facts • Pain points • Known opportunities
• Deferred initiatives • Analytics appetite • Competition
• Typically 3 – 5 weeks • Grounded in your organization’s reality
Followed by…
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Strategy • Commitment to analytics • Change management • Pace of change
• Migration strategy • Leadership (RACI) • Resourcing models
Business Architecture
• “Day in the Life” scenarios • Use cases and process flows • Roles and responsibilities
Technology Architecture
• DW/BI role • Big data role • Platforms
• Tools • Migration plans • Integration architecture
• Support • Data flows • Control flows
Roadmap • Risk mitigation • Program leadership • Sponsorship
• Defining success • CSFs • User adoption
• Phases • Stretch goals • Contingency plans
• Typically 8-12 weeks • Complete blueprint
We’d love to hear from you!
Zunesis
Email: info@Zunesis.com
Website: www.zunesis.com
Headquarters 8375 S. Willow Street 5th Floor Lone Tree, CO 80124 720-221-5200
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Las Vegas Office 6280 S. Valley View Blvd. Suite 604 Las Vegas, NV 89118 702-837-5300
• My Wednesday analytics blog: https://humpdayanalytics.wordpress.com/
• Cross-posted on LinkedIn
• Follow me on Twitter: @HumpDayAnalytic
• My LinkedIn/Lynda.com courses:http://www.lynda.com/Alan-Simon/3981678-1.html
For more information…
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