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David Sweenor

Founder at TinyTechGuides

South Burlington, United States

David Sweenor is the founder of TinyTechGuides and host of the Data Faces podcast, where he talks with the people who are making data, analytics, AI, and marketing work in the real world. He is a recognized top 25 analytics thought leader and international speaker who specializes in the practical business applications of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.

With over 25 years of hands-on experience implementing AI and analytics solutions, David has supported organizations including Alation, Alteryx, TIBCO, SAS, IBM, Dell, and Quest. His work spans marketing leadership, analytics implementation, and specialized expertise in AI, machine learning, generative AI, data science, IoT, and business intelligence.

David is the author of 11 books, including the TinyTechGuides titles Artificial Intelligence: An Executive Guide, The Generative AI Practitioner's Guide, and Modern B2B Marketing, along with the O'Reilly Media titles Democratizing Analytics, Automating Analytics, and ML Ops: Operationalizing Data Science. He holds several patents and consistently delivers insights that bridge technical capability with business value.

David Sweenor Points
Academic 15
Author 1390
Influencer 58
Speaker 15
Entrepreneur 110
Total 1588

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Company
Minimum Project Size: $10,000+
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Media Experience: 10
Last Media Training: 05/01/2021

Areas of Expertise

AI 48.12
Analytics 61.52
Big Data 36.70
Generative AI 60.67
IT Strategy
Leadership 30.89
Marketing 32.79
Predictive Analytics

Industry Experience

High Tech & Electronics
Manufacturing

Publications & Experience

115 Article/Blogs
The question that separates AI value from sunk cost
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June 16, 2026
Andreas Welsch on agents, restraint, and the revenue leaders ignoreContinue reading on Medium »

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Forget AGI. Your AI is dumb without your data.
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June 09, 2026
Josh Howard of Databricks on why context decides the agentic enterpriseContinue reading on Medium »

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Governance now decides whether AI delivers value
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June 04, 2026
Field notes from six leaders at the BARC 2026 Data and Analytics RetreatContinue reading on Medium »

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Meeting users where they are
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June 02, 2026
Mary Kern’s new design premise from Qlik Connect 2026Continue reading on Medium »

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Convert the marketing prompt workflows you’ve already written
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May 29, 2026
How Claude Skills outperform Custom GPTs and prompt docsContinue reading on Medium »

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Why AI agents require a Switzerland approach to metadata
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May 26, 2026
Collate CMO Steve Wooledge on using semantic intelligence to ground machine reasoningContinue reading on Medium »

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The Claude folder most marketers can’t find
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May 22, 2026
Where it lives on a Mac, and the symlink that surfaces itContinue reading on Medium »

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Is your Claude marketing OS a little quirky?
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May 21, 2026
Why Skills alone are missing part of the recipeContinue reading on Medium »

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Marketing moats: what of that?
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May 15, 2026
Reduce the friction in your crappy processesContinue reading on Medium »

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Bots need not apply
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May 12, 2026
How Kate Strachnyi built a data and AI media company on authentic voicesContinue reading on Medium »

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Truth before meaning — the three-word fix for data management
Medium
April 14, 2026
Data leaders have been pitching “data quality” to executives for decades. For just as long, executives have nodded politely, approved a fraction of the requested budget, and moved on to whatever initiative sounds more exciting. Gartner estimates that poor data quality costs the average enterprise $12.9 to $15 million per year, yet data leaders still struggle to connect that cost to the language executives actually use.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Generative AI

Truth before meaning — the three-word fix for data management
Tiny Tech Guides
April 07, 2026
Data leaders have been pitching “data quality” to executives for decades. For just as long, executives have nodded politely, approved a fraction of the requested budget, and moved on to whatever initiative sounds more exciting. Gartner estimates that poor data quality costs the average enterprise $12.9 to $15 million per year, yet data leaders still struggle to connect that cost to the language executives actually use

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Tags: AI, Generative AI

Your AI doesn’t have a model problem. It has a data context problem
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March 03, 2026
Euphonic AI’s Asa Whillock on the three layers of context most AI teams are missingListen now on YouTube | Spotify | Apple PodcastsThe Data Faces Podcast with Asa Whillock, CEO and Founder at Euphonic AII’ve often equated people with birds — they’re always chasing the next shiny objec

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Stop marketing to individuals when committees make the decision
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February 24, 2026
A buying committee decision mapping workflow for marketers who are tired of no-decision lossesContinue reading on Medium »

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Why the biggest AI enthusiasts care most about governance
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February 17, 2026
Atlan’s Gene Arnold on why the teams that ship AI are the ones that govern itContinue reading on Medium »

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How to build thought leadership that compounds
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February 10, 2026
The editorial system behind content that gets cited, shared, and rememberedContinue reading on Medium »

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Culture Eats AI for Breakfast
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February 03, 2026
Data leadership veteran Randy Bean on why 94 percent of AI challenges have nothing to do with technologyContinue reading on Medium »

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Why boring AI use cases will win in 2026
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January 20, 2026
Babson’s Tom Davenport explains why boring AI use cases will deliver value firstContinue reading on Medium »

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3 AI Lessons from 27 Data Leaders in 2025
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December 31, 2025
What a year of conversations revealed about strategy, agents, and alignmentContinue reading on Medium »

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Why code-first data science still wins in the age of AI
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December 23, 2025
Posit’s Bruno Trimouille explains why governance and innovation aren’t a zero-sum game for data science teamsContinue reading on Medium »

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Data Lineage for AI: Why Truth Beats Hope in Banking
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December 09, 2025
Solidatus’ Tina Chace reveals how column-level tracking and business context prevent a cascade of organizational failuresContinue reading on Medium »

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The Barcode on the Bronze: Why Your AI Needs to Know What Makes You Different
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November 25, 2025
Adesso Associates’ Gina von Esmarch reveals how teaching AI your context beats generic automationContinue reading on Medium »

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Augmented Intelligence: The Future of Sales Enablement
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November 10, 2025
LaunchDarkly’s Matt Magne shares why augmented intelligence beats automation in sales enablementContinue reading on Medium »

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Why 80% of AI Projects Fail (And the Three Boring Decisions That Save the Other 20%)
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October 27, 2025
AI analyst and DMRadio host Eric Kavanagh on the three unglamorous decisions that separate AI success from expensive failureContinue reading on Medium »

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How to Spot AI Content: When Writing Lacks Personality
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October 25, 2025
What Pulp Fiction can teach you about making your content memorableContinue reading on Medium »

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10 Books
The PMM's Prompt Playbook: Mastering Generative AI for B2B Marketing Success
TinyTechMedia LLC
February 28, 2025
Product marketers face mounting pressure to deliver more content, campaigns, and insights with limited time and resources. Unfortunately, most are using elementary prompts and struggle to incorporate generative AI into their daily workflows in ways that save time and drive impact. As a marketing leader with 20+ years in data and analytics, I've tested hundreds of AI workflows and have identified what actually works for B2B product marketing.

The PMM's Prompt Playbook: Mastering Generative AI for B2B Marketing Success distills that experience into practical workflows that help you better understand customer needs, build rich personas, analyze competitors, enable sales teams, and plan product launches. There are no theoretical discussions about AI potential—just proven prompt-driven workflows that cut research time, accelerate content creation, and improve marketing outcomes.

Each chapter walks through specific workflows that are refined through real-world applications. You'll learn how to extract insights from customer feedback, create targeted content for different buyer personas, build compelling product narratives, and accelerate launch planning.

This is a practical guide for working smarter. Want to analyze a competitor's positioning in minutes instead of hours? Need to generate targeted content for five different personas? Looking to speed up launch planning without sacrificing quality? The workflows in this playbook show you how.

Written for busy product marketers who need proven solutions, this guide helps you deliver quick wins that drive real business impact. Every prompt and process has been tested and refined through hands-on experience in B2B technology marketing.

Remember, it's not the tech that's tiny, just the book!

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Tags: AI, Generative AI, Marketing

The Generative AI Practitioner’s Guide: How to Apply LLM Patterns to Build Real World Enterprise Applications
TinyTechMedia LLC
July 20, 2024
Generative AI is revolutionizing the way organizations leverage technology to gain a competitive edge. However, as more companies experiment with and adopt AI systems, it becomes challenging for data and analytics professionals, AI practitioners, executives, technologists, and business leaders to look beyond the buzz and focus on the essential questions: Where should we begin? How do we initiate the process? What potential pitfalls should we be aware of?


This TinyTechGuide offers valuable insights and practical recommendations on constructing a business case, calculating ROI, exploring real-life applications, and considering ethical implications. Crucially, it introduces five LLM patterns—author, retriever, extractor, agent, and experimental—to effectively implement GenAI systems within an organization. The Generative AI Practitioner’s Guide: How to Apply LLM Patterns for Enterprise Applications bridges critical knowledge gaps for business leaders and practitioners, equipping them with a comprehensive toolkit to define a business case and successfully deploy GenAI.


In today’s rapidly evolving world, staying ahead of the competition requires a deep understanding of these five implementation patterns and the potential benefits and risks associated with GenAI. Designed for business leaders, tech experts, and IT teams, this book provides real-life examples and actionable insights into GenAI’s transformative impact on various industries.


Empower your organization with a competitive edge in today’s marketplace using The Generative AI Practitioner’s Guide: How to Apply LLM Patterns for Enterprise Applications. Remember, it’s not the tech that’s tiny, just the book!

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Generative AI

Generative AI Business Applications: An Executive Guide with Real-Live Examples and Case Studies
TinyTechMedia LLC
February 01, 2024
Within the past year, generative AI has broken barriers and transformed how we think about what computers are truly capable of. But, with the marketing hype and generative AI washing of content, it’s increasingly difficult for business leaders and practitioners to go beyond the art of the possible and answer that critical question–how is generative AI actually being used in organizations?

With over 70 real-world case studies and applications across 12 different industries and 11 departments, Generative AI Business Applications: An Executive Guide with Real-Life Examples and Case Studies fills a critical knowledge gap for business leaders and practitioners by providing examples of generative AI in action. Diving into the case studies, this TinyTechGuide discusses AI risks, implementation considerations, generative AI operations, AI ethics, and trustworthy AI.

The world is transforming before our very eyes. Don’t get left behind—while understanding the powers and perils of generative AI. Full of use cases and real-world applications, this book is designed for business leaders, tech professionals, and IT teams. We provide practical, jargon-free explanations of generative AI’s transformative power.Gain a competitive edge in today’s marketplace with Generative AI Business Applications: An Executive Guide with Real-Life Examples and Case Studies. Remember, it’s not the tech that’s tiny, just the book!

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The CIO’s Guide to Adopting Generative AI: Five Keys to Success
TinyTechMedia
October 24, 2023
In a world full of generative AI hoopla, it's easy to get lost in the maze of options and marketing hype. Don't get distracted by the vendor hype; instead, focus on building resilient, high-value platforms that will set you apart from the competition. The CIO’s Guide to Adopting Generative AI: Five Keys to Successfills a critical knowledge gap for CIOs and business leaders by succinctly offering five success factors that need to be met before an organization can successfully incorporate generative AI.

To unlock the transformative business value of generative AI, business leaders must: 1) identify enterprise use cases, 2) apply context to large language models (LLMs) using their organization's data, 3) take special precautions to ensure data security and privacy, 4) implement an artificial intelligence (AI) governance framework, and 5) build manageable AI applications for business users. This report provides the keys to unlocking the true potential of generative AI.

Full of use cases and real-world applications, this report is designed for business leaders, tech professionals, and IT teams. We provide practical, jargon-free explanations of generative AI's transformative power.

Gain a competitive edge in today's marketplace with The CIO’s Guide to Adopting Generative AI: Five Keys to Success. Remember, it's not the tech that's tiny, it's the book!

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Modern B2B Marketing: A Practitioner's Guide to Marketing Excellence
TinyTechMedia LLC
May 20, 2023
There are untold resources on marketing and its different functions—brand marketing, content marketing, social media marketing, and more. However, throughout our combined fifty years in the field, we have failed to find a digestible book for business-to-business (B2B) marketing grounded in day-to-day realities that explains how various marketing functions fit together. This book provides practical explanations, advice, tips, and best practices on how B2B marketing actually works.

Modern B2B Marketing: A Practitioner's Guide for Marketing Excellence is designed for anyone who leads, works, or engages with marketing. It’s for business leaders and chief marketing officers (CMOs) who want to learn how to sustain a high-performance marketing organization; for product managers and sales professionals who often work with marketing but don’t understand how it all fits together; and for marketers early in their careers who want to understand how B2B software marketing works outside of a classroom setting. This book is not about marketing technology or a rehash of the Pragmatic Marketing Framework. It is a practitioner's guidebook for effective, modern B2B marketing.

Centered around a new model for modern marketing, Modern B2B Marketing is built around the customer. It provides an integrated framework and approach to marketing, including downloadable templates that will help you improve performance in portfolio and product marketing, content marketing, demand generation, marketing operations, customer advocacy, and more.
If you want to gain a competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced digital world, this TinyTechGuide is for you!

Remember, it’s not the tech that’s tiny, just the book!

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Tags: Leadership, Marketing, Careers

Artificial Intelligence: An Executive Guide to Make AI Work for Your Business
TinyTechMedia LLC
April 02, 2022
In the business world, the very term artificial intelligence (AI) is shrouded in mystery. For some, it’s the brains behind a robotic apocalypse. For others, it provides hope for a better society with self-driving cars, food security, and medical breakthroughs. But what about for businesses? For most executives , the term “AI” is vague, confusing, and although intriguing, it seems unapproachable.

Artificial Intelligence: An Executive Guide to Make AI Work for Your Business is designed for non-experts—it’s for business teams, business leaders, and executives who never seem to have enough time in the day to learn about the latest technology trends. TinyTechGuides are meant to be read in under two hours and focus on the application of technologies in business, government, and educational settings.

This book covers the fundamentals of AI: data, analytic, and automation technologies—from modern data management techniques to chatbots, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), robotic process automation (RPA), and computer vision. It discusses the business benefits of AI, the importance of AI ethics, MLOps, and provides real steps on how to start your AI journey.

With real-world examples of businesses applying AI, you’ll learn how to use AI within Accounting & Finance, Marketing & Sales, Research & Development, Supply Chain, IT, Human Resources, and Service and Support. There are practical industry examples across Banking & Finance, Energy & Utilities, Insurance, Government, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Retail, Telecom, and Transportation & Logistics.

If you want to know how AI can be applied to improve your business, this TinyTechGuide is for you! Remember, It’s not the tech that’s tiny, just the book!

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Automating Analytics: A Human Centered Approach to Transformative Business Outcomes
O’Reilly Media
October 22, 2021
Transformation without analytics is just digitization. Analytics makes it transformative.
—David Sweenor, Alteryx

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It's All Analytics – Part II: Designing an Integrated AI, Analytics, and Data Science Architecture for Your Organization
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
September 29, 2021
Up to 70% and even more of corporate Analytics Efforts fail!!! Even after these corporations have made very large investments, in time, talent, and money, in developing what they thought were good data and analytics programs. Why? Because the executives and decision makers and the entire analytics team have not considered the most important aspect of making these analytics efforts successful. In this Book II of "It’s All Analytics!" series, we describe two primary things: 1) What this "most important aspect" consists of, and 2) How to get this "most important aspect" at the center of the analytics effort and thus make your analytics program successful.

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ML Ops: Operationalizing Data Science
O’Reilly
April 01, 2020
Four Steps to Realizing the Value of Data Science Through. Model Operations

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Reporting, Predictive Analytics, and Everything in Between
O’Reilly Media
November 01, 2019
A Guide to Selecting the Right Analytics for You

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1 Executive
Alation
Alation
January 24, 2024
Customers such as Cisco, DocuSign, Nasdaq, Pfizer, and Samsung trust Alation’s platform for self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data, fostering data-driven innovation at scale. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alation has been recognized five times by Inc. Magazine as one of the Best Workplaces.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Transformation

1 Founder
TinyTechGuides
TinyTechMedia
April 02, 2022
TinyTechMedia, the makers of TinyTechGuides. TinyTechGuides are designed for non-experts — they’re designed for business teams, business leaders, and executives who never seem to have enough time in the day to learn about the latest technology trends. They are designed to be read in an hour or two and focus on the application of technologies in a business, government, or educational institution.

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3 Journal Publications
THE USE OF POLYNOMIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN PREDICTING SURVIVAL OF SWINE IN HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK
Telemedicine Journal
July 01, 2004
The first 20 to 30 minutes after an injury is the time window faced by the Army medic within which triage and rescue decisions must be made. In the battlefield setting, roughly 20% of mortalities occur before injured soldiers can he transported to the Battle Aid Station (BAS). After arriving at the BAS, mortality rates fall to about 3%. This research addresses the utility of polynomial neural network (PNN) models in predicting mortality during hemorrhagic shock (HS) for use in trauma triage. Data from over 100 swine were acquired from two HS experimental protocols. Swine in the first group had HS induced through a Grade V liver injury, whereas those in the second group received an aortotomy. Four time-stamped physiological variables were measured: systolic and diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure, and heart rate. Sampled every 10 seconds, these data will be used to predict mortality one hour after injury. The hypothesis is that the PNN models will be able to learn effectively the dynamic characteristics of HS data and will be an effective aid in mortality prediction for trauma triage.

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The use of polynomial neural networks for mortality prediction in uncontrolled venous and arterial hemorrhage
Journal of Trauma
January 01, 2002
The ability to rapidly and accurately triage, evacuate, and utilize appropriate interventions can be problematic in the early decision-making process of trauma care. With current methods of prehospital data collection and analysis, decisions are often based upon single data points. This information may be insufficient for reliable decision-making. To date, no studies have attempted to utilize data at multiple time points for purposes of enhancing prediction, nor have studies attempted to synthesize prediction models with data reflecting both large-vessel venous and arterial injuries. Therefore, we performed a retrospective study to examine the potential utility of dynamic neural networks in predicting mortality using highly discretized uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock data.

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Tags: AI

On defining the optical gap of an amorphous semiconductor: an empirical calibration for the case of hydrogenated amorphous silicon
Solid State Communications
April 08, 1999
It is pointed out that there are a number of different means whereby the optical gap of an amorphous semiconductor may be defined. We analyze some hydrogenated amorphous silicon data with respect to a number of these empirical measures for the optical gap. By plotting these gap measures as a function of the breadth of the optical absorption tail, we provide a means of relating these disparate measures of the optical gap.

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Tags: Emerging Technology

6 Media Interviews
When AI gets its own interview
Tiny Tech Guides
April 09, 2026
So, an A-Eye, a Data Whisperer, and a podcast host walk into a bar. The A-Eye orders for everyone. The Data Whisperer asks why nobody checked the drink menu first. The host just sits there wondering how he ended up singing Old MacDonald on camera.

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Tags: AI, Generative AI

Escaping operational black holes with unified ‘full-fidelity’ observability
IDG Connect
June 26, 2022
As tech leaders now look to gain deep and granular tranches of management control across their IT estates, there is a reasonable (if not compelling) argument for questioning the form, focus and fidelity of our observability viewpoint – the alternative may be something like a journey down an operational black hole, which is clearly a fairly suffocating experience for everyone.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Big Data

Democratizing Data Science to Better Mitigate Risk
Raconteur
March 28, 2022
Businesses with agility react better to disruption, but a data skills gap is holding them back.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Big Data

Data Science Job Market Trends
Datamation
January 27, 2022
5 Top Data Science Job Market And Career Trends

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A new recipe for enterprise data, 'too many cooks' is over
IDC Connect
January 20, 2022
The adage 'too many cooks' might still apply in the soup kitchen, but in cloud-centric data analytics, there is an argument for more ingredients (data sources), more cooks (data scientists) and more servings all round.

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Getting Started with Data Science as an SMB
EM360
July 09, 2021
science is out of their reach because they can’t afford to hire an expensive data analyst. In fact, Michael Guta reports that 67% of small businesses spend more than $10,000 per year on analytics. However, analysing data doesn’t have to come with a high cost and you don’t have to be an online titan like Amazon to be able to compete in the data-driven business movement. Modern technology means that the ability to take data and turn it into a problem-solving insight is no longer exclusively within the realms of those companies with big budgets or individuals with years of experience or a specific university degree. These myths against the use of data in SMBs need to be dispelled. It's time for SMBs to leverage data in order to survive and thrive!

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Big Data

2 Patents
Method and a system for on-boarding, administration and communication between cloud providers and tenants in a share-all multi-tenancy environment
USPTO
September 12, 2013
A method of ascertaining requirements for onboarding new users to a multi-tenant computing environment is provided herein. The method starts off with the stage of recognizing the organizational roles of the new users. The method continues to the stage of identifying parameters pertaining to the service. The method then goes on to mapping the organization roles of the new users and the service parameters to a set of rules. The method further includes determining actions needed to be taken on the computer environment based on the set of rules. Finally, the method goes on to the stage of onboarding the new users to the computer environment.

Patent Number US20130332587A1

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Tags: Analytics, Cloud, Cloud

Learning based logic diagnosis
USPTO
July 07, 2009
A system and method for diagnosing a failure in an electronic device. A disclosed system comprises: a defect table that associates previously studied features with known failures; and a fault isolation system that compares an inputted set of suspected faulty device features with the previously studied features listed in the defect table in order to identify causes of the failure.

Patent Number US7558999B2

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Tags: Legal and IP

29 Podcasts
Forget AGI. Your AI Is Dumb Without Your Data | Josh Howard, Databricks
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June 02, 2026
"Without context, your agents are dumb." That's how Josh Howard, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Executive Audiences at Databricks, closed Episode 40 of the Data Faces Podcast.Frontier models are some of the most advanced technology of our lifetime. They are also dumb in the w

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Tags: AI, Generative AI, Marketing

Metadata, semantics, and the future of AI context | Steve Wooledge
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May 19, 2026
The difference between an AI that "hallucinates" and one that acts intelligently lies in context.In Episode 39 of the Data Faces Podcast, Steve Wooledge (CMO at Collate) joins David Sweenor to discuss why metadata, once a technical "card catalog," is now the foundational layer fo

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Tags: AI, Generative AI, Marketing

Bots Need Not Apply: Authentic Voices in Data and AI | Kate Strachnyi
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May 05, 2026
LinkedIn has a "rewrite with AI" button. Meanwhile, Kate Strachnyi is building an entire media company on authentic human voices. Is she right?In Episode 38 of the Data Faces Podcast, Kate Strachnyi (Founder, DATAcated) shares how she pivoted from finance to data visualization, built a 40+

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Tags: AI, Generative AI, Marketing

Why Bad Data Didn't Matter Until Now | Brendan Grady
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April 21, 2026
For 25 years, data quality was everyone'sproblem and nobody's priority. Brendan Grady, EVP and GM of Analytics & AIat Qlik, explains why the stakes just changed.In this episode recorded on location at QlikConnect 2026, David Sweenor and Brendan discuss consequence management, whereenterp

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Tags: AI, Generative AI, Marketing

Why bad data didn’t matter until now
Tiny Tech Guides
April 21, 2026
For 25 years, data quality has been everyone’s problem and nobody’s priority. For some, it was an IT problem, and for others, it was a business problem. But most of the time, fixing it at scale was largely ignored. What would you do if a number in the spreadsheet looked off? You’d fix it and move on with your day. The same with questionable metrics on dashboards. We’ve been able to tuck and hide the cost of bad data in a manual world for a while now. Since the pace of business was slower, there were no real consequences for getting it wrong.

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Tags: AI, Generative AI

A-Eye Gets Its Own Interview | Data Puppets Bonus
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April 09, 2026
On the Data Faces Podcast, I usually interview someone with a whole face. For this bonus segment, I made an exception.Scott Taylor's Data Puppets character "A-Eye" joins the show fresh from the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit. The puppet had thoughts about agentic AI, data governan

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Truth Before Meaning in Data Management | Scott Taylor
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April 07, 2026
Data leaders have been pitching "data quality" to executives for decades, and the pitch keeps falling flat. Scott Taylor, the Data Whisperer, explains why — and what to do instead.In Episode 34 of the Data Faces Podcast, Scott Taylor (MetaMeta Consulting) shares his three-word data philo

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Tags: AI, Generative AI, Marketing

Data Intelligence & Agentic AI | Stewart Bond, IDC
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March 24, 2026
Stewart Bond coined the term "data intelligence" in 2016. Now it's a market category. Here's how it happened — and why it matters more than ever for AI.Stewart Bond, Research VP at IDC, joins David Sweenor on the Data Faces Podcast to trace the origins of "data intelligence&

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Storytelling Is the Most Durable Data Skill | Michael Meyer
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March 10, 2026
"All the computer programs that have ever needed to be written have already been written." That's what Michael Meyer's guidance counselor told him in the late 1980s. 35 years later, he's still proving that advice wrong.In this episode of the Data Faces Podcast, host David Sween

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Culture Eats AI for Breakfast | Randy Bean
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January 27, 2026
???? Most companies invest heavily in data and AI—yet few see real business impact. Why?In this episode of Data Faces, David Sweenor sits down with Randy Bean to unpack four decades of lessons from the front lines of data, analytics, and AI leadership.Randy shares insights from his long-running Fo

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Tags: AI, Generative AI, Marketing

AI Predictions for 2026 That Actually Matter | Tom Davenport
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January 13, 2026
???? AI is everywhere—but what’s real, what’s hype, and where is the business value actually coming from?In this episode of the Data Faces Podcast, David Sweenor sits down with Tom Davenport, Distinguished Professor at Babson College and one of the most trusted voices in analytics and AI. They

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The End Goal of AI: Humans, Not Machines | Eric Kavanagh
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October 22, 2025
???? What’s the real end game of AI? Is it about smarter machines—or smarter organizations?In this episode of Data Faces, Eric Kavanagh, AI analyst and syndicated radio host of DM Radio, joins David Sweenor, founder of TinyTechGuides, to explore what success in AI truly means for business, techn

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There Is No Post-AI World | John Thompson
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March 25, 2025
How are autonomous AI agents reshaping enterprise operations? In this episode of The Data Faces Podcast, John Thompson, Global AI Leader at EY, cuts through the hyperbole to provide a strategic assessment of opportunities, risks, and governance requirements based on his decades of implementation exp

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AI & Automation in Finance: The Cognitive CFO | Jawwad Rasheed
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March 11, 2025
???? AI & Analytics in Finance: The Future of CFOs | Jawwad RasheedHow are AI and analytics reshaping finance? In this episode of The Data Faces Podcast, Jawwad Rasheed, Financial Services & Transportation Lead at Alteryx, explores how finance leaders can leverage AI, analytics, and automati

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AI Agents & Data Strategy | Sanjeev Mohan
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February 25, 2025
???? AI Agents & Data Strategy | Sanjeev MohanAI agents are transforming business and data strategy, but are they ready for real-world deployment? In this episode of The Data Faces Podcast, Sanjeev Mohan , former Gartner VP and AI expert, joins us to discuss the rise of AI agents, their role in

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Beyond AI Hype: What 20% of Companies Get Right | Shawn Rogers
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February 11, 2025
???? Beyond AI Hype: What 20% of Companies Get Right | Shawn RogersThe AI revolution is here—but only 20% of companies are getting it right. What are they doing differently? In this episode of The Data Faces Podcast, Shawn Rogers, CEO of BARC and AI thought leader, shares research-backed insights

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Beyond the AI Hype: What 20% of Companies Get Right
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February 11, 2025

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The Role of Data Trust in AI Success | Kamal Maheshwari
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January 21, 2025
???? The Role of Data Trust in AI Success | Kamal MaheshwariAI is only as good as the data it learns from—so how can businesses build AI on trusted, high-quality data? In this episode of The Data Faces Podcast, Kamal Maheshwari, Co-Founder of @decube_data, shares insights on why data trust is esse

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Solving the Data Trust Crisis with Kamal Maheshwari
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January 21, 2025

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Gen AI in 2025: Why 90% Fail & How to Succeed | Kjell Carlsson
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January 02, 2025
???? Gen AI in 2025: Why 90% Fail & How to Succeed | Kjell CarlssonHow can organizations separate AI hype from reality and build AI responsibly? In this episode of The Data Faces Podcast, Kjell Carlsson, Head of AI Strategy at Domino Data Lab, shares insights on AI governance, data trust, and th

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Gen AI in 2025: Why 90% of Projects Might Fail and What to Do About It
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January 02, 2025

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The Future of AI: Lessons from History | Kevin Petrie
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December 11, 2024
???? The Future of AI: Lessons from History | Kevin PetrieWhat can history teach us about AI's future? In this episode of The Data Faces Podcast, Kevin Petrie, VP of Research at BARC US, shares insights on how past technological revolutions mirror today’s AI boom, the risks of hype, and what busin

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Past as Prologue with Kevin Petrie: What History Tells Us About the Future of AI
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December 11, 2024

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The Faces Behind Data: AI, Ethics, and Leadership with Monica Cisneros—Stanford to Omelas Paradox
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November 14, 2024

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The Ethics of AI: Fairness, Bias & Responsibility | Monica Cisneros
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November 14, 2024
???? The Ethics of AI: Fairness, Bias & Responsibility | Monica CisnerosAI is shaping our world—but is it truly fair and responsible? In this episode of The Data Faces Podcast, Monica Cisneros, AI and Data Analytics expert, explores the challenges of AI fairness, bias, and governance. We discu

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3 Quotes
2022 will be the year of the Chief Transformation Officer
Enterprise Channels MEA
February 18, 2022
No-code and low-code will simplify and democratise AI

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What continued growth for Digital Transformation means for CIOs
Intelligent CIO
February 18, 2022
Digital Transformation is the incorporation of computer-based technologies into an organisation’s solutions, processes, and strategies. Industry pundits look at how enterprises in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) are winning with Digital Transformation, business benefits and digital technologies as the growth trajectory continues.

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Artificial Intelligence: Should You Teach It To Your Employees?
Forbes
September 10, 2021
AI is becoming strategic for many companies across the world. The technology can be transformative for just about any part of a business.

But AI is not easy to implement. Even top-notch companies have challenges and failures.

So what can be done? Well, one strategy is to provide AI education to the workforce.

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3 Speaking Engagements
Analytics Democratization vs. Governance: Are they at odds?
Gartner.com
May 11, 2022
As companies embark on their journey to democratize analytics across their organization, questions of governance often come up. Is the very concept of analytics governance and democratization at odds? Join this session to hear how UBS balances the seemingly conflicting approaches.

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Training Day: How to Optimize Predictive Algorithms (ML)
DMRadio
December 02, 2021
The power of prediction is well known in the analytics industry. The big question for today: How do you optimize, both from a design and production perspective? Join this conversation to hear Host @Eric_Kavanagh interview Kathleen L. D. Maley of Experian, David Sweenor of Alteryx and Tim Wyatt from Lookout.

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The Human Side of AI
DATACated
October 06, 2021
DATACated Expo

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196 Videos
The Layoff Cycle Nobody Wants to Name | Andreas Welsch
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June 24, 2026

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AI Won't Take Your Job. This Will. | Andreas Welsch
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June 22, 2026

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Just Because You Can, Should You? | Andreas Welsch
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June 18, 2026

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Dumb or Superintelligent? Josh's Hot Take | Josh Howard, Databricks
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June 17, 2026

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The Question That Separates AI Value From Sunk Cost | Andreas Welsch
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June 16, 2026

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Forget Superintelligence. Make Your AI Work | Josh Howard, Databricks
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June 15, 2026

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Your AI Is Only as Smart as Your Data | Josh Howard, Databricks
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June 12, 2026

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84% Say AI Works. Only 43% Measure It | Josh Howard, Databricks
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June 10, 2026

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Data Faces On Location: BARC 2026 Retreat | Colorado
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June 09, 2026

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The Agent Deleted the Entire Database | Josh Howard, Databricks
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June 08, 2026

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Your Enterprise Data Is the Real AI Advantage | Josh Howard, Databricks
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June 04, 2026

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Build BI From Scratch or Be Disrupted | Ivan Vakhmyanin
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June 04, 2026

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Why Revenue Is FP&A's Lost Data | John Colthart
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June 04, 2026

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Bad Data In, Confident Wrong Answers Out | Shree Neve
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June 04, 2026

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Escape the Software Trap | Asa Whillock
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March 05, 2026

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Why Context Wins in AI | Asa Whillock
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March 04, 2026

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Stop Obsessing Over AI Models | Asa Whillock
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March 02, 2026

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AI’s $130B Opportunity Explained | Asa Whillock
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February 27, 2026

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Why AI Fails Like Voltron | Asa Whillock
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February 25, 2026

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Your AI Has a Data Context Problem | Asa Whillock
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February 24, 2026

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Top-Down vs Bottom-Up AI | Gene Arnold
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February 18, 2026

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Why AI Fails When You Skip This Step | Gene Arnold
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February 16, 2026

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AI Adoption Is Top-Down and Bottom-Up | Gene Arnold
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February 16, 2026

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AI Innovation Needs Governance | Gene Arnold
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February 14, 2026

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Unstructured Data Is the Business Gold Mine | Gene Arnold
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February 13, 2026

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2 Webinars
Mcdonald's Journey to Analytics Enablement
DATACated
March 29, 2022
See how McDonald's is using analytics automation to democratize data
Every organization needs insights, but the path to analytics maturity can be daunting if leaders don’t know where to start. Listen to this on-demand webinar with McDonald’s’ director of global data and analytics enablement, Jeff Nieman, to hear how he’s helping McDonald’s on its path to enterprise-wide analytics enablement.

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Up-Skilling for Analytics – Keys to Success
Inside Analysis
January 19, 2022
The key to success in analytics tends to be a moving target. First, we focused on the data, then the queries. With data science, we pivoted to more complex algorithms to find those meaningful insights. But regardless of which approach you take, there is one common thread that leads to breakthrough outcomes for your business: Automation!

Check out this episode of #InsideAnalysis to hear Host @eric_kavanagh interview several industry experts: Melissa Burroughs and David Sweenor of Alteryx, and Nick Jewell of Datacurious.ai. They’ll discuss the importance of knowing which automations can generate the optimal value, as well as the critical need for up-skilling your team.

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