Alan Morrison is an independent consultant and freelance writer on data tech and enterprise transformation. He is a contributor to Data Science Central with over 35 years of experience as an analyst, researcher, writer, editor and technology trends forecaster, including 20 years in emerging tech R&D at PwC.
Fair Data Forecast Interview with Andreas Volpini, CEO of WordLift Andreas Volpini believes every user who wants to build a personal brand online has to… Read More »The AI content + data mandate and personal branding
Recent developments in artificial intelligence remind me of the automotive industry in the late 19th and early 20th century. In that case, it took the… Read More »What’s missing from ChatGPT and other LLMs?
Here’s a hypothesis: Smart data (enriched with metadata that makes it connectable with other data, Tinker Toy style) might be fungible in ways that dumb… Read More »Data assets in the AI era
My son and I both had stints in 2022 at low-volume, high-margin, long-established manufacturers. My son was doing assembly for a power management system maker… Read More »Data-centric development: A hypothetical tech manufacturing example
Pondering a blue-sky scenario helps to clarify what a company’s long-term objectives should be. For example, say your company could pick one data-wish to come… Read More »10 ways to simplify data quality and sharing efforts
Deep learning guru, NYU professor, and chief AI scientist at Meta Yann LeCun has been bullish about neural nets for years now. But in March… Read More »Countering the LLM parrot worshippers
FAIR Data Forecast interview with Todd Carter “Most video assets are hugely underperforming,” Todd Carter, CTO of Resolute Square, said in our Personal Knowledge Graph… Read More »Boosting video “surface area” for discoverability with knowledge graphs
Freelance writer Christopher Beam is a skeptic of sorts. But in a May 2023 piece for Bloomberg on the aftermath of the crypto winter, Beam… Read More »The AI faithful vs. the data skeptic
Irene Politkoff, Founder and Chief Product Evangelist at semantic modeling tools provider TopQuadrant, posted this description of the large language model (LLM) ChatGPT: “ChatGPT doesn’t… Read More »Can we boost the confidence scores of LLM answers with the help of knowledge graphs?
Today, data empowers individuals and organizations in many different ways. But in many other ways, we’ve barely scratched the surface of its potential. To dig… Read More »Prospecting for Hidden Data Wealth Opportunities (2 of 2)
