As the title of my latest forbes.com article says, it’s an obligation that columnists must have an overview article. There it is.

On Tech Target, I discuss chatbots and personalities, while on Forbes.com I describe the basics of recommendation systems.

I was at OmniSci Converge, the startup’s first user conference. It was a great start. The news about Intel was very interesting, so I had to write about it.

My latest forbes.com article provides feedback on the good direction I see ThoughtSpot headed with their latest release.

My latest Tech Target article focuses on two areas were AI won’t be replacing humans soon, but rather where technology and people must work together.

I posted a short article covering my opinion about their news focused on their alliance to improve location accuracy for connected vehicles. I think it has even wider applications than just the press release’s focus on autonomous vehicles.

While newer companies love to claim ETL is dead, it still matters. Metadata management is even more complex today and machine learning can help. My latest article discusses the challenge.

In my latest forbes.com article, I discuss how facial recognition can be used for sentiment analysis in order to limit bias in campaigns. It’s a better focus that the negative publicity of full facial recognition for identification.

Google’s announcement of the acquisition of Looker shows they are strengthening (adding…) business intelligence to the Google Cloud portfolio. I discuss it in my latest forbes.com article.

My latest article describes how synthetic data can be used to enrich the data sets used for training of deep learning systems.