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Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar)

Founder and CEO, GRID · 1 appearance on the record.

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Hjálmar Gíslason founded DataMarket in 2008, which was acquired in 2014 by Qlik, where he subsequently served as Vice President of Product Management. In 2018, he founded GRID, a SaaS company developing technology at the intersection of spreadsheets, web documents, and AI.

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1 prediction · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Hjalmar argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
DataMarket will adopt D3.js once IE7 and IE8 market share drops
“For the technical guys in the room, moving from Protovis, which, what, which is what we've built our stuff on, and made compatible to Internet Explorer seven and eight, which is about 20% of the business traffic on the web still, ah, to D three in probably a c…”
Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 56:18 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012

How they sound: speaking style how? →

261 words/min while actually speaking · 47.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar): only 1 usable question→answer exchange on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,570 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Gislason: Hadoop and NoSQL are poor for quantitative data aggregation
“Actually we found that Hadoop and most, kind of, no, no SQL solutions are not very good for, kind of, quantitative data when you need to aggregate and, kind of, go across these things.”
Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 11:31 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
Insight
DataMarket failed at freemium but succeeded with high-priced direct enterprise sales
“We had a hard time giving our solution away, but then it turns out we can sell it for a lot of money if we sit down with the right people.”
Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 44:08 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
Insight
Gislason: Data startups must sell solutions, not big data itself
“Nobody's selling big data solutions. We're selling solutions that use big data kind of technologies, and you have to frame that differently for kind of, you know, depending on who you're talking to.”
Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 10:05 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
Insight
Gislason: Research organizations buy data tools for revenue, not labor savings
“We've found it's impossible to sell this to research organizations on the merits that it will save work internally. It, you know, we have to make the argument that it will bring in more revenue”
Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 40:53 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
Prediction Didn’t hold up
DataMarket will adopt D3.js once IE7 and IE8 market share drops
“For the technical guys in the room, moving from Protovis, which, what, which is what we've built our stuff on, and made compatible to Internet Explorer seven and eight, which is about 20% of the business traffic on the web still, ah, to D three in probably a c…”
Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 56:18 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012 Dec 5, 2013 11m
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