I won’t be going to the TED Conference this week.  Instead, I’ll be participating in the Strata Big Data Conference.  Nothing against TED; I loved my time there last year.  Big Data is about to hit an important inflection point and the Strata conference, brilliantly orchestrated by Tim O’Reilly and his team, is bound to be an opportunity for investors, entrepreneurs and tech observers to discuss the transformation the space is going through.