The Paths to AI There are three paths to “artificial intelligence” – algorithmic, heuristic, and inferential. Algorithmic learning is essentially programming – telling someone (or… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest May the 4th Be With You (2021)
Connectedness and NFTs One of the more fascinating things about data, especially as you gather more and more of it together, is the extent to… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 26 April 2021
Becoming A Data Society Data has always been an integral part of computing, but it has only been in the last decade or so that… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 19 April 2021
Understanding Data Agility I recently co-authored a book on the next iteration of Agile. Over the years, as a programmer, information architect and eventually editor… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 12 April 2021
Lessons From a Convention A Winter of Discontent has shifted over the last few months to a Spring of hope. Many countries (and in the… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 05 April 2021
Data As A Galaxy One of the more significant “quiet” trends that I’ve observed in the last few years has been the migration of data… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 29 March 2021
The Future For Data Scientists One of the first jobs that I had after college (in the midst of a recession) was working as a… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 22 March 2021
Data Agility, Not Code Agility Twenty years ago, a group of programmers, project managers, and consultants met at a ski resort just outside of Ogden,… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 15 March 2021
Will Machine Learning Replace Programming? A combination of faster machines, more multicore processors, and new algorithms have propelled machine learning to become the hot new… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 08 March 2021
Fake News and Bicycling Nudes Some twenty years ago, as I was starting out my own career as both a technologist and a journalist, I… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 01 March 2021
