Evidence of an Open Source Boomlet?
June 8, 2010
I read “What Is Data Science?” with interest. This is a long O’Reilly Radar essay by Mike Loukides. The write up has a message that is going to be of interest to those looking for the next big and some giant companies with data and not much leverage from that asset. The key point in the write up is that there is money to be made by converting data into products. Note that this is not the tired old data-information-knowledge mantra. The days of the quasi-intellectual approach to making money is not sufficiently pragmatic for these economic times. The key is to take data and make a product. When I read the essay, I thought about various online vendors who are doing this now. Candidates for poster children include Google, Facebook, and Yahoo along with lots of other folks. Statistics Canada once signed a deal with a vendor to crunch the StatsCan stuff into more saleable products.
But for me the most interesting item in the write up was a chart that showed the number of job listings for a couple of open source products; specifically, Hadoop and Cassandra.
You can see the lines trending upwards.
My take: there is some tangible data that indicates open source software in the data management sector is gaining traction. I am not sure what this means for other open source software. But I found this factoid interesting.
Stephen E Arnold, June 8, 2010
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