Tag: data
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when exporting your data is difficult
The client could copy the database, but the database structure was so complex, they couldn’t make sense of it, and had been working for ten months with limited progress. My colleague’s idea was to use an AI to build JavaScript scripts that scraped the UI. Since the data was presented from the UI, it was…
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Relative to your interests, Thursday
The return of the 3 R’s!!! These were the best R’s. – “A decade ago, Pivotal published a security manifesto, a radical call to action of sorts, via a blog post that broke the glass of traditional security culture inside of enterprise IT. The premise was faster is safer, a radical departure from the calcified,…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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🤖 Valiantys-Glean Partnership Bets That Cross-Platform Knowledge Graphs and Behavioral KPIs Are What Move Enterprise AI Past Pilots
Original: Enterprise AI is still stuck at experimentation – Valiantys and Glean think they know why by diginomica. Summarized by AI on June 3, 2026. Most enterprise AI pilots stall, and the diagnosis from Nathan Chantrenne, Chief AI Officer at Valiantys, is that the field measures the wrong things and fragments its tooling. The dominant…
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Bedazzled by slides and data
During the 2000s, slides became even more ornate. Consultancies evolved their formatting rules, and created fancy data-dense charts. They learned that a 200 slide deck made clients feel like they got a lot for their money. E.g.: I vividly remember being shown the charts room in fund manager Fidelity’s huge London office. There were graphs…
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Airport Meltdowns – New Flighty Features
Global airports status map, Flighty app, April 8th, 2026 Flighty is a great app for frequent travelers. Getting flights to track in is easy, you can track friends’ flights, and it has so much data you can use to both figure out when your flight leaves and just peek at fun stuff like how many…
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Amazon’s enterprise AI strategy, explained by Neil Ward-Dutton
Neil Ward-Dutton, an IDC analyst focused on AI, automation, data and analytics, said three announcements on the first day of the conference were of note. “AWS AI Factories is one,” he said. “These are AWS AI infrastructure and software stacks, built and managed by AWS, but deployed in customers’ own datacentres. “These are, at least…
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“Unlocking data.” Since the 2000’s we’ve been trying to “unlock” data in organizations. We’re still talking about it. What keeps it all locked up? Is this driven by the need to access it, or lower bills? How do we keep ending up locked up data? I feel like there’s a Straussian read on this enterprise…
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Google Cloud’s EU sovereign stuff, for AI
Digital sovereignty is not a future trend — it’s happening now. Whether you’re in defense, finance, healthcare, or the public sector, the time to act is today. Start by assessing your tech stack, exploring sovereign cloud options, and preparing for sovereign AI-driven transformation. Don’t wait for regulations to force your hand—embrace sovereignty as a competitive…
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“data swamp” Here.
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Cloud sovereignty strategy advice
”Prioritize sovereignty where it matters most. Not every workload requires sovereign infrastructure — and overengineering can be costly and inefficient. Focus on areas where sovereignty is critical: AI workloads, sensitive data, and operations in regulated industries. Use edge computing to process data locally and reduce compliance risks. Localized cloud options, including sovereign clouds and regional…
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They advocate for using JSON (with comments) over YAML
They advocate for using JSON (with comments) over YAML: “Generating json as a better yaml Often the choice of format is not ours to make, and an application only accepts yaml. Not all is lost though, because yaml is a superset of json, so any tool that can produce json can be used to generate…
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Breaking the AI illusion: From adoption to growth – Garbage in, garbage out: “37% of midmarket CMOs believe AI-enabled marketing technologies have potential to help their organizations over the next 12-18 months, according to the Midmarket survey. This includes incorporating tools and workflows to boost content creation and automate campaigns, critical elements of modern marketing…
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neiltron/apple-health-mcp – Export Apple Health data to a CSV. Good for handing over to the robots.
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Expert Generalists – ”Traditional interview loops still revolve around product trivia – “Explain Spark’s shuffle stages,” “How does Databricks Delta time-travel work?” A candidate who has never touched those tools can still be exactly the kind of person we need: someone who quickly grasps unfamiliar concepts, breaks complex systems into manageable parts, and collaborates across…
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alto.index – Transform Your Apple Apps Data into AI-Ready Markdown – Export stuff from your Apple apps.
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The next bottleneck for enterprise AI: data
Lots of links below, plus some sovereign cloud thinking from EU people in the Logoff. Access to data shouldn’t be holding you can from enterprise AI radicalness To make enterprise AI useful, you need your data: Gartner Inc. predicts that organizations will develop 80% of Generative AI (GenAI) business applications on their existing data management…
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Snowflake must wait on customers’ on-prem renewal cycles – You have to wait for the contract renewal window to put big systems in place, especially something as “heavy” as data.
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The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun – Data gravity considerations for AI.
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Data Looks Better Naked – Good advice on formatting charts and data tables. The examples are incremental, so you can choose to go all the way, or just apply some of the design changes.
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