Prior to the 1890 census, there was an overwhelming amount of basic information about tens of millions of Americans that had to be sorted every ten years.
I’ve written about Gartner before. Similar to Gallup but tech. Much bigger than Gallup. Ever heard of the magic quadrant?
Catching up now. Is this a useful framework nowadays?
Gartner is stupid successful and it’s a circular game. We had people whose *job* was to work with Gartner to make sure we made it into the magic quadrant. For example, here’s the latest and of course Google’s got it. Pay to play https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ai-infrastructure/google-is-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-ai-infra
IBM and their tabulating machines, not quite what we use: general purpose computers.
Thanks. I like to wade out until the water is juuuuust above my head, then read the comments to learn the fuller picture!
Still cool and a very important stepping stone, right?
Yes indeed. There were many motivators of computing and many missed the boat.
And thus Gallup begat Crossley, Hooper, Nielsen and ultimately the Internet algorithim...
Initially, I was going to write about the Pew Research Center. It was going to be called “Pew Pew!”
I’ve written about Gartner before. Similar to Gallup but tech. Much bigger than Gallup. Ever heard of the magic quadrant?
Catching up now. Is this a useful framework nowadays?
Gartner is stupid successful and it’s a circular game. We had people whose *job* was to work with Gartner to make sure we made it into the magic quadrant. For example, here’s the latest and of course Google’s got it. Pay to play https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ai-infrastructure/google-is-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-ai-infra
IBM and their tabulating machines, not quite what we use: general purpose computers.
Thanks. I like to wade out until the water is juuuuust above my head, then read the comments to learn the fuller picture!
Still cool and a very important stepping stone, right?
Yes indeed. There were many motivators of computing and many missed the boat.
And thus Gallup begat Crossley, Hooper, Nielsen and ultimately the Internet algorithim...
Initially, I was going to write about the Pew Research Center. It was going to be called “Pew Pew!”