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Augmented Analytics: Providing a Narrative and Context via Data Stories

By Dick Weisinger

The global augmented analytics market size was $5 billion in 2019 and is growing at a rate of 25 percent annually, according to a report by TMR Research. The industries where augmented analytics is being deployed include financial services, healthcare,…

Artificial Intelligence: AI as Artist

By Dick Weisinger

An AI-sibling of OpenAI’s GPT-3 project was released in January. What GPT-3 did for natural language processing, the new project, DALL·E, does for images. Given a short prompt, GPT-3 is able to generate natural language or even programming code. It…

Strategic Technologies 2021: Pandemic has Changed the Trajectory of Technology

By Dick Weisinger

This year, Gartner released their annual top strategic technologies for the new year. Unlike previous years that named ten technologies, this year there are only nine. Brian Burke, research vice president at Gartner, summarized the reasoning behind the selection for…

Open Source: The OS Licensing Wars — Elastic versus Amazon

By Dick Weisinger

On January 14, Elastic announced that they are moving away from the Apache 2 OSS licensing model for Elasticsearch and Kibana. On Twitter, Elastic announced that “we are moving our Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch & Kibana to be…

Cybersecurity and Cyber-resiliency: Proactive and Reactive Planning

By Dick Weisinger

Cybersecurity and cyber-resilience. What’s the difference? Cybersecurity is about protecting computer infrastructure from hacking and damage. It is all about prevention and is often enforced with strong authentication, encryption, layered security, and the securing of applications. Cyber-resiliency is the management…