Bubbles happen. But you hope what is left behind after the bubble supernova is at least useful to science or society. Like the dot.com bub...

We need to stop referring to today's machine learning as AI. It is marketing techno spin no more and no less. There is nothing intellige...

When relational databases, data warehouses, and data marts took root in the late 1990s, our data and our database systems were just down the...

Somehow along the way data lakes got the rap that you can dump "anything" into them. I think this is carry over from the failed hi...

There is no doubt that the brute force ML (aka deep learning) approach to achieve general AI or some level of human decision making by using...

Cloud data platforms really gained momentum in 2020. It has been a real breakout year for both cloud data lakes and cloud data warehouses (y...

  Building a cloud data platform? First question: open Data Lake or proprietary DW or maybe a mix of both? Not a simple question or architec...

  Maybe it is more of mangled and ill defined art than a lost art. Data lineage is one of the aspects of data governance that gets lost in ...

To be clear, I do not classify Snowflake as an OLAP or MPP database. It has these capabilities for sure, but being born in the cloud and onl...

Curve Fitting is for the most part what most machine learning boils down to, not that that is a bad thing. How do go be beyond the correlati...

ML cloud services are evolving fast and furious. GCP and AWS are the leading players. Here is a quick visual peak at both ML tech stacks. AW...

Which to choose for your cloud OLAP engine? There are a lot of choices when it comes to cloud based analytics engines. All the major clouds ...

Is the sun setting on Spark? I don't want to knock Spark and frameworks like it, they have had their moment in the sun. Spark was a r...

Don't start or continue your AI and predictive analytics journey without building the necessary data infrastructure underpinnings. An...

The foundation of a good data management strategy is based on number skills including data policies, best practices, and technology/...