Toad World

Good Morning from GigaOm Structure – Big Data conference. If you’re from the West Coast like Andy and me our clock is showing 4.30am right now, and we’ve been up for a while setting up our table top. The hippie Toad for Cloud is already playing well for the audience; people stopping by and staring at the handsome fella.

There are around 40 sponsors here including splunk, Revolution Analytics, The New York Times, DataStax and EMC to name a few. There’s a packed agenda today, and I am most excited to attend a couple of sessions specifically – in about an hour there’s ‘The New Alchemists’, a panel of Data Scientists who are going to be talking more about their roles at companies like bit.ly, and Cloudscale. I’m also interested in ‘The Coming Revolution in Statistics’; the Chief Scientist of Revolution Analytics, Lee Edlsfsen, is presenting, and this is an area that we are looking at learning more about.