Topic "Next-Gen Analytics Solutions"
This three-part series on connected cars has been co-authored by Amit Kara, Vishwa Belur, and Soumya Banerjee. You’re enjoying your family vacation, driving through California’s most scenic routes, when suddenly, your rental car comes to a complete halt. Your children and, most importantly, your spouse are not happy campers. You think to yourself, with all the advancements in automobiles,... more
Over the last couple of years, data catalogs have been positioned as the panacea to address all kinds of problems in the modern data environment. Given the growing importance of data as a strategic asset, the pressure to make trusted data easily available to the business, and the complexity of the modern data landscape, the... more
I was recently in downtown San Diego during one of the largest global comics conferences: Comic-Con International 2019. The event is growing every year, and this year an estimated 300,000 visitors and attendees will generate more than $150M in economic impact for the city of San Diego. Despite the excited fans all around me, I... more
Ever since Microsoft introduced Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2), enterprises around the globe have been adopting it to drive their data lake and modern analytics initiatives. As ADLS Gen2 adoption has gained momentum, there has been a very active and healthy discussion about interoperability between Azure Blob and ADLS Gen2. If you check... more
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are powering the digital transformations happening in every industry around the world. AI/ML is critical in discovering new therapies in life sciences, reducing fraud and risk in financial services, and delivering truly personalized customer experiences. Enterprise AI/ML Needs Data Management The success of AI is dependent on the... more
Every day after waking up I constantly hear about the promises and benefits of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence. I hear about the promises of Self-Driving Cars, folks asking KITT to recommend songs for the day, the list goes on and on. So, I think, you know what would be fantastic is If I could... more
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” said Juliet to Romeo in the epic tale of love between members of two warring families. The quote is the tragedy and the central struggle for both Shakespeare’s famous play and the more mundane but certainly as epic... more
When someone asked me that question “what is the opposite of Artificial Intelligence?”, my immediate response was “human stupidity?” But just a few days ago, one of my colleagues, who shares my enthusiasm (or one can say geekaism) for AI based technology, sent me this GIF that illustrates so well the old ways of thinking... more
It’s not often that I run into the word “metadata” when I indulge in my favorite weekend habit of reading the Sunday New York Times (NYT). A few months ago, the paper published a special section focused on how NYT is digitizing and bringing back to life photographs published in the paper over fifty years... more
The TC18 afterglow is still fresh. My personal favorite? The great stories. This year, I was touched and inspired by two amazing data stories shared by executives from Charles Schwab and Pfizer on the TC18 keynote stage. I was so excited and grateful to hear these stories of data-driven digital transformation that I thought I’d... more