On this episode of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Looker’s CEO Frank Bien and Chief Product Officer Nick Caldwell about how the company’s LookML language allows users to build deep and wide data models using all existing data. Many of the new paradigms for accessing data are also now being connected to […]
In this episode of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Alexander Jarasch, the head of the German Center for Diabetes Research, about the power of knowledge graphs and how they’re helping in the fight against diseases. The conversation covers the following topics: 1:40 – Why graphs seemed like an appealing technology to […]
In this episode of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Neo4j’s Jeff Morris. Woods had participated in Neo4j’s graph tour and this conversation draws on that experience to discuss the power and potential of graph technology, and putting that technology into production. Their conversation covers: 2:40 – What is the checklist for […]
On this episode of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Neo4j’s Alastair Green and Stefan Plantikow about creating a new standard graph query language (GQL). Woods has written about the rationale behind creating GQL before. The conversation touches on Green’s GQL Manifesto as well as: 2:20 – The need for a graph […]
We’ve now gone down the road with big data and data lakes and the rise of AI and machine learning powered techniques long enough that it’s appropriate to take a step back and ask a few basic questions about what we’re trying to do and how we’re trying to do it. What’s interesting to me, […]
Donald Trump raised the issue of the fairness of Google search. Citing a variety of specious sources, he asked, “Is the Google Search ranking algorithm biased in some way?” While I don’t think he really has much of a point, it is interesting to think about why search is the way it is, and does […]
In this edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods spoke with Sushil Thomas, co-founder and CEO of Arcadia Data, while both were at Strata NYC. Woods has written about how Arcadia Data’s platform is attempting to save the data lake by making it more actionable and useful for companies — and not just a […]
We’re back with another edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast. In this episode, Dan woods speaks with Ellen Friedman, a principal technologist and Ted Dunning, Chief Application Architect at MapR Technologies. Dunning and Friedman have recently completed books, and the conversation covers their insights on when it makes sense to create your own AI […]
In this episode of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods sits down with Michael Mahoney, VP of Worldwide Solutions Engineering at Kinetica, to discuss the steps companies need to take to become data-powered organizations. Their conversation covers all aspects of the big data universe and touches on: 4:10 – Kinetica’s definition of the Extreme […]
In the latest edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Tendu Yogurtcu, CTO of Syncsort, during the Strata NYC Conference. Dan covered Syncsort’s technology in a recent article for Forbes in which he describes how the company is helps businesses manage their entire data supply chain. Today’s conversation covers a gamut […]
