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CDOIQ 2026: My Honest No-BS Takeaways

Learnings from a couple days with data executives: most enterprises are still in the middle of the fundamentals, the leap from solid foundations to real transformation remains uncharted territory.

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Y’all my podcast debut is this week on Catalog & Cocktails with @juansequeda.bsky.social and @timgasper.bsky.social! Pre-recorded with Amalia Child joining me, streaming on LinkedIn at 11am ET this Wednesday and then available wherever you get your podcasts www.linkedin.com/video/event/...

And I suppose Amalia and I will still have a chance to speak together on how to think like a librarian, since @juansequeda.bsky.social invited us onto Catalog & Cocktails. Details forthcoming on that! It will be my first ever podcast appearance, and I'm a bit nervous about it 😆

A week ago I delivered my talk at @datadaytexas.bsky.social: "Think Like a Librarian: Fresh Perspectives from a Time-Honored Tradition". While my co-speaker Amalia Child couldn't make it due to the winter storm, I'm glad I was still able to present and bring a librarian's perspective to data folks.

Kicking off the first session of @datadaytexas.bsky.social is @juansequeda.bsky.social with his learnings from 20 years of building knowledge graphs and ontologies

Just how old is the idea of a "semantic layer", and using it to "talk to your data"? At the beginning of this year, I started a book club for Data & Reality by Bill Kent. (you've probably seen me posting about it!) The 1st edition of Data & Reality was published in 1978, the 2nd edition in 1998.

This is cool Catalog and Cocktails #HonestNoBS Data podcast was just ranked #9 on the list of the top 100 data science podcasts! Thanks to all our listeners and guests!! www.millionpodcasts.com/data-science...

And I love the big shoutout @juansequeda.bsky.social gives to Amalia Child, and her article "The Five Laws of Data Enablement" Read it here: locallyoptimistic.com/post/the-fiv...

The Five Laws of Data Enablement: How the father of library science would make his data team indispensable - Locally Optimistic

In 1931, S. R. Ranganathan established five laws of librarianship that any modern data leader would be wise to embrace.

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@olesenbagneux.bsky.social and @jtalisman.bsky.social gave LIS such amazing representation at Data Day Texas this year in their talks, a trend I am sure will continue.

🚀 How to Start Investing in Semantics and Knowledge: A Practical Guide Today at @datadaytexas.bsky.social I shared practical advice based on my experience on a topic I’m deeply passionate about: elevating the need of semantics and knowledge in the enterprise key takeaways from my talk:

Ringing in the new year with my Rosetta Stone socks, the first semantic layer. Let’s start working towards making 2025 the year of semantics and knowledge

OpenAI is reminding me what Cyc was doing in the 80s and 90s “OpenAI has worked with experts in subjects like theoretical physics, to explain how they would approach some of the toughest problems in their field. This can also help Orion get smarter. “ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

The Next Great Leap in AI Is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive

The startup has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion.

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Spoiler alert: Data engineering is harder than you think— and here's why. This quote summarizes the issue: "It is not the domain experts' knowledge that goes to production, it is the assumption of the developers" - Alberto Brandolini (EventStorming Creator) Cognitive burden is too high!

“At the turkey-processor Butterball, it took advanced analytics systems and some upgraded data plumbing to uncover a hidden but universal truth: people hate thawing their birds.” No sh********t!!! And you are proud of the $ spent to come to that conclusion? www.wsj.com/articles/tha...

Thank Big Data for Killing Off the Worst Part of Thanksgiving Meal Prep

Butterball started out with a boring, standard software implementation—and ended with the creation of a Thanksgiving turkey that you do not need to thaw.

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Our podcast episode with Ethan Mollick on AI was 🔥 A highlight quote: We are trained to make dumb systems smart. We are not used to making smart systems smarter. We end up making smart systems dumber. We are focused/concerned so much on limiting LLMs and not leveraging their super powers

Thread of my takeaways from the International Semantic Web Conference #iswc2024 @mioana.bsky.social Keynote: Great example of data integration for journalism, highlighting the power of graphs to combine heterogeneous sources like XML, JSON, CSV, and RDF. The approach involves ...

I created a starter pack on KGs! I found others useful as newcomer. go.bsky.app/EQRCq9R