Category: Data Best Practices
-
“AI-Generated Content May Not Be Accurate”
A warning that “AI-Generated Content May Not Be Accurate” appears at the bottom of the AI-powered chatbot contained within the CRM platform that my company uses. Think about it for…
-
Digital Snake Oil
Photo courtesy of EDRM (edrm.net)
-
AI Is the Answer! But What Was the Question?
We’ve all seen it…maybe even done it: purchased a piece of trendy exercise equipment that now sits idle where it’s used as a very trendy clothes rack. In hindsight, can…
-
Your Bad Data Quality is a Liability
Suppose you hire a customer support agent who answers questions from your customers. At some point, that employee begins to give incorrect answers, bad advice, and possibly even dangerous directions. …
-
Data Is The New Aluminum
When the discussion turns to analytics and data science, do you immediately think of aluminum? If you said no, that’s good — you shouldn’t have. Until now. Aluminum has many…
-
Data, Data Everywhere And Not A Byte To Use
The often-misquoted line “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink” from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes the irony of being surrounded by something…
-
Do Pay Attention To The Man (Or Woman) Behind The Curtain
L. Frank Baum was way ahead of his time when he led Dorothy to expose the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz as a charlatan. The Munchkins believed that the…
-
Using Entity Recognition Models on Financial Forms: A Superior Approach
In the world of finance, professionals are constantly looking for ways to improve data processing and analysis, especially unstructured data. Unstructured data is information that does not reside in a…
-
Why Are Your Data Engineers Washing Dishes?
Have you ever seen a chef bussing tables? Or a dishwasher running a kitchen? A Michelin 5-star restaurant that asks its chef to wash dishes is paying far too much…
-
Crystal Myth
Who doesn’t love crystals? They’re solid; regular, predictable. Some crystals are sweet (sugar), some are strong (diamond), and as fans of Breaking Bad know, some are very profitable. Some people even think crystals…