Universal semantic layer: Going meta on data, functionality, governance, and semantics
What is a universal semantic layer, and how is it different from a semantic layer? Is there actual semantics involved? Who uses that, how, and what for? By George Anadiotis When Cube Co-founder Artyom Keydunov started hacking away a Slack chatbot back in 2017, he probably didn’t have answers to those questions. All he wanted to […]
Read More →Neo4j partners with Microsoft, unfolds strategy to power Generative AI applications with cloud platforms and Graph RAG
From better together to full native integration, Neo4j is creating an ecosystem around all major cloud platforms to enable provide graph-powered features for Generative AI and beyond. Here’s how this aligns with cloud platform AI strategies and what’s next. Hint: Databricks and Snowflake. By George Anadiotis For many organizations today, data management comes down to handing […]
Read More →Data management in 2024. Open data formats and a common language for a sixth data platform
What data management in 2024 and beyond will look like hangs on one question. Can open data formats lead to a best-of-breed data management platform? It will take Interoperability across clouds and formats, as well as on the semantics and governance layer. By George Anadiotis Sixth Platform. Atlas. Debezium. DCAT. Egeria. Nessie. Mesh. Paimon. Transmogrification. This […]
Read More →Foursquare moves to the future with a Geospatial Knowledge Graph
From a consumer-oriented application, Foursquare has evolved to a data and product provider for enterprises. The next steps in its evolution will be powered by the Foursquare Graph. Welcome to Orchestrate all the Things, a newsletter with stories about Tech, Data, AI and Media and how they flow into each other shaping our lives. If […]
Read More →How efficient code increases sustainability in the enterprise
Everything counts in large amounts. You don’t have to be Google, or build large AI models, to benefit from writing efficient code. But how do you measure that?
Read More →Fair forecast? How 180 meteorologists are delivering ‘good enough’ weather data
Weather forecasts, too, are all about data and models these days. But balancing accuracy and viability is a fine act, especially on a global scale and when the stakes are high. What’s a good enough weather prediction? That’s a question most people probably don’t give much thought to, as the answer seems obvious — an […]
Read More →How to apply decision intelligence to automate decision-making
Decision intelligence is one of those terms that sound vaguely familiar, even if you’ve never come across it before. Like many category-defining terms, it can mean different things to different people. This is a feature category-defining terms either have by design, or acquire through extensive use.
Read More →Averting the food crisis and restoring environmental balance with data-driven regenerative agriculture
Modern agriculture was broken long before pandemics, wars, supply chain disruptions, and fertilizer shortages. Regenerative agriculture can fix it.
Read More →LinkedIn on the ‘Great Reshuffle’: Green skills, green jobs, and blind spots
LinkedIn embarked on an ambitious analysis of data from its nearly 800 million members worldwide to derive insights on the green transition. But while useful, the analysis comes with its blind spots, too.
Read More →NVIDIA unveils Hopper, its new hardware architecture to transform data centers into AI factories
NVIDIA just announced Hopper, a new GPU architecture that promises significant performance improvements for AI workloads. We look under the hood to decipher whether the emphasis on Transformer AI models translates to a radical redesign, and look at the updates in the software stack.
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