Getting an Intuition for Big Data

IEEE Software Editor-in-Chief Forrest Shull discusses the importance of building reliable systems to interpret big data. In addition, he discusses the IBM Impact 2013 Unconference; the Software Engineering Institute\´s SATURN 2013 conference in which the IEEE Software Architecture in Practice Award went to Simon Brown of Coding the Architecture, for his presentation titled "The Conflict between Agile and Architecture: Myth or Reality" and the IEEE Software New Directions Award went to Darryl Nelson of Raytheon for his presentation titled, "Next-Gen Web Architecture for the Cloud Era." He also welcomes Professor Rafael Prikladnicki of the Computer Science School at PUCRS, Brazil, and Chief Software Economist Walker Royce of IBM\´s Software Group to the IEEE Software Advisory Board. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/JrQorWS5m6w is a video interview in which IEEE Software editor in chief Forrest Shull speaks with Paul Zikopoulos, Director--IBM Information Management Technical Professionals, Competitive Database, and Big Data at IBM, about the potentials of mining big data. Zikopoulos will deliver a keynote at Software Experts Summit 2013 on 17 July in Redmond, Washington. The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/NHHThAeONv8 is a video interview in which IEEE Software editor in chief Forrest Shull speaks with Catherine Plaisant and Megan Monroe of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory about big data information visualization and its applications to software development. The third Web extra at http://youtu.be/NqXE0ewoTKA is a video overview of the IBM Impact 2013 Unconference, sponsored by IEEE Software magazine, an event specifically designed for developers that featured Grady Booch and Tim O\´Reilly as keynote speakers.