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Consequences Schmonsequences

Listen to this article: Do you listen to the Rock Bottom Data Feed? If you don’t, you should. It’s a serious show about data that doesn’t take itself too seriously; more of a radio program than a podcast. My co-host, John Ladley, in his monologue for the recent episode “More Fuss About Tony Read more

By Mark, 8 hoursApril 22, 2026 ago

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100 Articles and Counting

Listen to this article: Just over two and a half years ago, I was among those who were invited by my former employer to explore free agency and/or retirement. I knew that I still had more to say and more to share. The Reservoir of Ideas has provided that forum Read more

By Mark, 2 weeksApril 8, 2026 ago

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AI Model Proliferation and a Sunday Afternoon at the Sydney Cricket Ground

Listen to this article: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a technology develop and expand and proliferate this quickly. Remember back in the ancient days of 2023 when it was pretty much just ChatGPT? Did you notice the following year when Microsoft added Copilot into many of its products and Read more

By Mark, 2 monthsMarch 4, 2026 ago

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Vintage NLP to ChatGPT

Listen to this article: In the beginning there was language, and from language evolved grammar, and grammar begat sentence diagrams. It seems like the portion of the population that diagrammed sentences in school is like the portion of the population who are Korean War veterans. They’re still around but their Read more

By Mark, 5 monthsNovember 19, 2025 ago

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“Unstructured Data” Is an Oxymoron

Listen to this article: We walked through the door of an otherwise unremarkable industrial park suite into a gymnasium-sized room packed full of shelves. The shelves were packed floor-to-ceiling with banker boxes. The banker boxes were packed full of documents. Back in the early 1990s, two large aerospace companies got Read more

By Mark, 5 monthsNovember 12, 2025 ago

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AI Is Not Gobbling Up All the Jobs…Yet

Listen to this article: In September and October, Salesforce, Bosch, Nestle, Target, UPS, and Amazon announced layoffs totaling nearly 100,000 positions. The rationales most often given were workforce reduction and AI. The 14,000 cuts at Amazon got particular attention. After all, Amazon is considered a technology leader and a bellwether Read more

By Mark, 6 monthsNovember 5, 2025 ago

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Data Quality, Executive Attention, and Executive Interest

Listen to this article: When it comes to data, there are two types of companies: those that are aware of their data quality issues and those that aren’t looking. Does your CEO know how bad your data quality is? Hopefully not, because that means that you haven’t had a negative Read more

By Mark, 7 monthsSeptember 24, 2025 ago

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AI and Enterprise Architecture: Pitfalls and Pathways – Part 2

Listen to this article: Last week I started looking at Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of the Enterprise Architect. Best practices covered included: maintaining a clear line of sight from the AI deliverable to a business objective and its tangible business value; being realistic in your expectations, especially with what Read more

By Mark, 7 monthsSeptember 17, 2025 ago

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AI and Enterprise Architecture: Pitfalls and Pathways – Part 1

Listen to this article: This past week I spent some time thinking about AI from the perspective of an Enterprise Architect. Is the Enterprise Architect also the Agentic AI Architect (or just AI Architect)? Perhaps in some organizations, but I would assert that AI Architect is more analogous to an Application Read more

By Mark, 7 monthsSeptember 10, 2025 ago

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Practical Data: The Sigmoid Function

Practical Data is an occasional series that examines data concepts that we encounter in our everyday lives, sometimes without even knowing it. It is my pleasure to introduce you to the Sigmoid Function. I can’t help but think of it as the “Sigmund Function” after the main character in the Read more

By Mark, 8 monthsSeptember 3, 2025 ago