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The Mythologyof Big DataO’Reilly Strata ConferenceFebruary 2, 2011Mark R. Madsenhttp://ThirdNature.net@markmadsen

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About the Presenter Mark Madsen is president of Third Nature, a technology research and consulting firm focused on business intelligence, analytics and performance management. Mark is an award-winning author, architect and former CTO whose work has been featured in numerous industry publications. During his career Mark received awards from the American Productivity & Quality Center, TDWI, Computerworld and the Smithsonian Institute. He is an international speaker, contributing editor at Intelligent Enterprise, and manages the open source channel at the Business Intelligence Network. For more information or to contact Mark, visit http://ThirdNature.net.

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About Third NatureThird Nature is a research and consulting firm focused on new andemerging technology and practices in business intelligence, dataintegration and information management. If your question is related to BI,open source, web 2.0 or data integration then you‘re at the right place.Our goal is to help companies take advantage of information-drivenmanagement practices and applications. We offer education, consultingand research services to support business and IT organizations as well astechnology vendors.We fill the gap between what the industry analyst firms cover and what ITneeds. We specialize in product and technology analysis, so we look atemerging technologies and markets, evaluating the products rather thanvendor market positions.