Data + Intelligence

It is possible AGI will be the single most revolutionary step in human history. AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, is a fundamental change in AI advancement. The first section covers what AGI is and contrasts it with traditional AI. The second section delves into timelines predicted for AGI’s emergence, and evidence for them. Finally, it […]

Alteryx: A Comprehensive Overview Alteryx is a leading data analytics platform that helps businesses and organizations of all sizes to turn raw data into actionable insights. This comprehensive platform includes data preparation, blending, and analytics capabilities, along with tools for data governance, collaboration, and automation. Alteryx has gained popularity in recent years due to its […]

In my recent post, I discussed Microsoft’s recent announcement of Microsoft 365 Copilot. From your inbox to customer interactions, this approach to Generative AI is meant to be a game changer for businesses. Copilot creates a new knowledge model for every organization to harness the massive reservoir of data and insights that lies largely inaccessible […]

This is a big deal The tech landscape is always evolving. In the history of computing, there have been three major shifts that completely changed how we view technology and its usefulness to society. Those include: Graphical User Interfaces The Internet Mobile (and social media on mobile i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more recently TikTok) […]

My good friends Eric Sanner and Brandon Luhring wrote two excellent articles covering the past and the present in relation to AI. Their thought-provoking pieces reveal the current issues we grapple with and the invaluable lessons we can learn from our past experiences to better understand and shape the future of AI (1). In this […]

Regulated industries, such as financial and healthcare companies, often need to make hard choices when it comes to balancing innovation and compliance. Most technology companies are focused on cloud-first, if not entirely cloud-native, offerings, particularly in the search and data space. I was recently working with a large financial services company that wanted to consolidate […]

Integrating SAP and Databricks has typically required a lot of glue. Set up the SAP Data Hub environment, connect to the SAP data, set up a pipeline with Pipeline Modeler, configure the Streaming Analytics Service, setup Kafka or MQTT and receive the streaming data in Databricks with Spark Streaming. Most of these intermediate steps required […]

Regulations and Policies In November of 2022, the EPA released new regulations to combat the release of air pollutants such as methane, VOCs, and benzene by both existing and new oil and gas operations. Another decisive move in 2023 by EPA enacted new policies to crack down on water pollution from coal plants. In these […]

A New Generative AI Question Answering Capability for Enterprises  Coveo has introduced a new feature called “Coveo Relevance Generative Answering.” This feature will be initially available to customers with self-service use cases starting this summer, followed by other use cases in customer service, commerce, website, and workplace search. This new feature will use various Large […]

In Power BI, Top N and Bottom N are often displayed using a visual level filter and two visuals, respectively. As a result, we can only show one item at a time on top or bottom N. But, if the situation asks for slicer selection to be used to dynamically change how top and bottom […]

I’m back, with another blog on GPT and AI. I find these advancements so interesting and fun, and here I’ll share how I use them to maximize my productivity. If you’ve struggled to figure out how to use these new tools, or use them but want to see if there’s more, this blog is for […]

Real-time data processing is a critical need for modern-day businesses. It involves processing data as soon as it is generated to derive insights and take immediate actions. Databricks Streaming and Apache Flink are two popular stream processing frameworks that enable developers to build real-time data pipelines, applications and services at scale. In this article, we […]