A few weeks ago we announced the: “Where Will Your Karma Take You Awards Contest.” The contest is your chance to ratchet up your participation in Splunk’s online community so you can earn a free pass to Splunk’s ultimate community and educational event: .conf2012.

Current standings for each of the categories:

Most up voted question:

1. Mahieu: Finding events that have never happened before
2. clyde772: Slow search when evaluating a numeric value.
3. aniketb: updating a lookup table by external means
4. andrew_garvin: Setup screen with credentials and multiple endpoints

Most points accumulated from answering questions (Whew! It’s close at the top!):

1. dwaddle (640)
2. ayn (630)
3. sideview (450)–Don’t miss his session: Easier View Deployment with Sideview Utils
4. mhibbin (260)
5. drainy (210)–Don’t miss his

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A few weeks ago we announced the: “Where Will Your Karma Take You Awards Contest.” The contest is your chance to ratchet up your participation in Splunk’s online community so you can participate in Splunk’s ultimate community and educational event: .conf2012.

Current standings for each of the categories:

Most up voted question:

1. clyde772: Slow search when evaluating a numeric value.
2. Mahieu: Finding events that have never happened before
3. aniketb: updating a lookup table by external means

Most points accumulated from answering questions:

1. dwaddle (380)
2. ayn (250)
3. sideview (220)
4. mhibbin (90)
5. lowell (40)

Most downloaded app from Splunkbase Apps:

1. sideview: Sideview Utils (822)
2. josh 1: Splunk License Usage (119)
3. southeringtonp: Splunk for OSSEC – Splunk v4 version (118)

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Aside from Big data being the new big buzzword, we’re also seeing an uptick in mentions of Data Science and Data Scientist. As a recent Fortune article: The hot tech gig of 2022: Data scientist indicated, by the end of the decade 50 billion devices will be emitting information nonstop, and data scientists will help to manage–and make sense of–all that data.

As such we at Splunk are hoping to address at least part of the problem data scientists face–collecting, correlating and searching the data. Splunk can help data scientists spend less time on the up front data parsing, then they can get to the fun (and valuable part)–searching, asking questions of, modeling and trending their data.

Margit Zwemer (@MPZwemer),…

Have you noticed all the blogs lately tagged with #datajourney or “Where will your data take you?” Since we last spoke, our partners and customers are finding all sorts of new ways to get greater business and operational value using Splunk to visualize and make more sense of their data. (And we’ve been inspired to turn these experiences into “How-to” sessions at the upcoming Splunk Users’ Conference, .conf2012–register by Friday to save $200 or buy 3 passes and get 1 free.)

Jens Ihnow in Hamburg Germany is monitoring the heating system in his house with Splunk. He also works at Otto, the world’s largest mail order company, where they use Splunk to ensure customer orders…

There’s still time to celebrate Big Data Week by participating in the Data Science Hackathon–and you can do so in style at Splunk’s HQ office at 250 Brannan St, in the SOMA district of San Francisco or at The Butter Factory in Melbourne, Australia. Other venues include: Berlin, Canberra, Finland, London and New York City.

The aim of the hackathon is to show the world what is possible through Data Science-a mission near and dear to our heart. In addition, the event’s aim is also to promote the sense of community, team work, and free spirit competition for the sake of Data Science.

Snarky Splunk shirts, Splunk Search Reference Guides and gallons of  energy drinks…

All the buzz these days is about managing big data. Splunk has been helping organizations around the globe manage massive streams of machine data for years now. And it’s not just the size of the data, but the variety and velocity. But you don’t have to take our word for it. Join us for an upcoming SplunkLive event to learn from our customers why they’ve selected Splunk to manage massive streams of machine data, improve service levels, reduce IT operations costs, mitigate security risks, and drive new levels of operational intelligence across IT and the business.

April 24: SplunkLive Singapore: Featuring Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Nanyang Polytechnic, and Mobile Operating Systems

April 27: SplunkLive Hong Kong: Featuring Hutchison Global Communications, The…

The best way to learn where your data can take you is by talking to other Splunk users. And the best place to speak with other Splunk users is at .conf2012: The 3rd Annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference.

You might have the chance to speak with Eddie Satterly. He got two promotions using Splunk. Luke Harris landed a new job after flexing his Splunk skills. Sondra Russell found loads more time to do more interesting analysis. Bob Beard found a way to monitor his Enterprise Monitoring System. Michael Wilde found the best music shows at SXSW. Nick Key is finding where in the world his friends are by mashing Facebook data with…

So it’s day one of March Madness…no silly not the days leading up to St. Patrick’s Day…the days where college basketball fans everywhere ditch work to enjoy beers and basketball. (And the days our dear brethren in IT field complaints about network slowness thanks to all the folks streaming the games.) In case you missed Wilde + Swannie’s awesome presentation at SXSW, Big Data for Everyman, we have access to the Twitter firehose from GNIP…which allows us to ask all kinds of questions of the Twitterverse.

I decided to see which games/ teams had the most fans/ related tweets. With Splunk, you can use Boolean operators like AND and OR to expand the number of search terms included.…

We wrapped up our SplunkLive events for 2011 by migrating to warmer climates–namely, deep in the heart of Texas.

We even had a few customers from the Great White North join us on our migration path. Josh Diakun from Interac/ Acxsys and Derek Mock of Ceryx flew from Toronto to wow the Texans with all the different ways they’re using Splunk. And for some local flavor, Bob Jones from the City of Corpus Christi rounded out the agenda with tips and tricks to help fledgling Splunkers get started.

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First I must say, this. This is a trio of superstars in the Splunk community. They use Answers, attended .conf, post apps to Splunkbase, hold lunch and learns…