In Case You Missed It May 2024
This is the Three Data Point Thursday, making your business smarter with data & AI.
This special in-between issue serves as a recap of the last editions and more of my writing. It features a few quotes from each piece so you can get a feel for them and quickly jump around the Three Data Point Thursday universe.
Enjoy!
Data & AI Vulnerabilities: How Prepared Are We for the Next Wave of Threats?
it’s about data & AI. You might not want to hear it, but the hard truth is: your data and your systems are just as vulnerable as our societies to such exploits. Only little has been made public so far about exploits of data & AI systems, but IMHO it’s inevitable data and AI systems will be exploited just like the U.S. society is. Maybe they already are, and we just don’t know it.
How To Build Great Data Products With The Proprietary Data Strategy
We still suck at building data-powered product experiences. In January 2023, ChatGPT wasn’t even three months old. With over 100 million users, it became one of the quickest-growing online applications in the world. In February 2022, the company DbtLabs received a 4 billion USD valuation for an open-source project providing mostly templated SQL (in my words, definitely not theirs).
(You Should Be) Storytelling (not just showing off) With Data
The problem? That’s not how data works! We’re missing the crucial third category: The people who understand data isn’t two-dimensional; our world isn’t two-dimensional; we make it so and hope for the best. Well, think again: flattening everything with a hammer isn’t going to work forever.
What’s Wrong with BI
The biggest challenge for the BI industry is to align back with the original goals of the business intelligence discipline. Similarly, every company can proactively realign business intelligence to drive better decisions instead of just using fancy-looking tools.
Until next week,
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