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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 […]

November 27, 2018

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 […]

October 25, 2018

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 […]

October 23, 2018

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 […]

October 17, 2018

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, […]

October 12, 2018

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