Governing Data vs Governing People
My friend David Plotkin, who is the Data Governance Manager of AAA of Northern California, Nevada, and Utah, reached out to me recently…
Strata Review by Ted Leung
Ted Leung has written an thoughtful review of last week's Strata: Making Data Work conference, and with more detail than…
The Benefits of Brevity
Many years ago, I took a persuasive writing course that made a lasting impact on my communication style. Beyond the…
What’s up with Watson?: Responses to comments in Wall Street Journal
The excerpt in the Wall Street Journal sparked some doubts and concerns among readers. I responded to a few, and…
Quick Strata update
Strata has so far been an outstanding conference: the level of intensity and smart people to meet has just been…
Semantic Web – Pitch of the week
Last week, SemanticWeb.com put out a challenge to our readership to answer the questrion, “What is the Semantic Web?” in…
Live from Strata
I'm at the sold-out O'Reilly Strata : Making Data Work conference today (Revolution Analytics is a sponsor). It's the first…
Recap of the Government Big Data Forum of 26 Jan 2011
On 26 January 2011 government IT professionals, federally-focused systems integrators and IT vendors met in the Government Big Data Forum…
Watson’s Linguistic Struggles
When you talk to experts in linguistics about teaching language to a computer, they stress all of the context that…
