Learn how to harness the power of the cloud all the way out to the edge to build the dynamic real-time systems of tomorrow. — Note: This article originally appeared in The BI Journal Volume 26 Issue 1 from TDWI under the title “Unleash the Power of Fog Computing” The Current State of Data Processing Systems For the last 5 years, enterprises have been scrambling to centralize their analytics processing on the cloud (hence the current $20B+ valuations of Databricks & Snowflake)…

A guide to use graph structures to mix data types, computation DAGs, compute connectivity, and real-world actions to model distributed data applications. — Recently, I’ve been exploring the gap between early predictions of the value that AI will drive (with numbers in the $3 Trillion plus range) and what our current technology will enable us to achieve. In an earlier post, I discussed how many of the most challenging use cases are those…

Realizing Adaptive Analytics solutions requires building up trust, which is not easy for an AI system. This roadmap will help. — In Part 1 of this series, I introduced what I call “the AI Value Gap”, a disconnect between the value generation being predicted for AI use cases and the current capabilities of AI technology, and asserted that we need to think more broadly about the human-in-the-loop systems that AI is…

Making your AI products collaborate with people to acheive their goals — In a previous post, I introduced the concept that AI is not going to achieve the massive financial impact that analysts have predicted. This is because the majority of the problems it is predicted to “solve” (via prescriptive analytics) are complex in nature, and therefore very difficult to solve using…

It’s going to take another step change in analytics capability to realize the trillions of dollars in value being tied to AI — Where does AI Value come from? Recently, the McKinsey Global Institute predicted that AI would generate at least $3.5 Trillion in economic impact by 2022 by valuing a set of 120 AI use cases across 12 industries. Based on my analysis, these use cases focus primarily on problems requiring prescriptive analytics, where the AI must make…

All you need is a Smart Bulb and an hour to automate the communication of your meeting status to your kids as Red/Green — If you’re finding this article, then you likely are looking for ways to help your kids (or roomates) know that you’re in a Zoom meeting and its not a good time to come in and bother you. I have a separate article that goes into the reasons that I built…

It’s amazing how much a simple indicator can change the relationship with your kids while you’re working from home — Kids Barging into your Zoom Meetings? It’s a problem that everyone has had to contend with throughout the Pandemic: you’re making the big pitch in a Zoom meeting, and your daughter or son comes bursting through the door to run up, give you a big hug, and tell you that they love you (or that they…

A lack of trust will dramatically impact your efforts to become data driven unless you proactively limit the spread of mistrust from data quality incidents. — It only takes a small problem to shake someone’s trust in data, but it takes a lot of deliberate effort to make them realize it was just one problem, not a larger issue. Even mature data organizations run this risk, as it is impossible to fully eliminate all data quality…

A lack of trust will dramatically impact your efforts to become data driven unless you proactively limit the Blast Radius of data quality incidents. — It only takes a small problem to shake someone’s trust in data, but it takes a lot of deliberate effort to make them realize it was just one problem, not a larger issue. …