by Dr. Owns | Mar 4, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
There are some Sql patterns that, once you know them, you start seeing them everywhere. The solutions to the puzzles that I will show you today are actually very simple SQL queries, but understanding the concept behind them will surely unlock new solutions to the...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 4, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
I have been a data team manager for six months, and my team has grown from three to five. I wrote about my initial manager experiences back in November. In this article, I want to talk about something that is more essential to the relationship between a DS or DA...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 4, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Advancements in agentic artificial intelligence (AI) promise to bring significant opportunities to individuals and businesses in all sectors. However, as AI agents become more autonomous, they may use scheming behavior or break rules to achieve their functional goals....
by Dr. Owns | Mar 3, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
In September 2024, OpenAI released its o1 model, trained on large-scale reinforcement learning, giving it “advanced reasoning” capabilities. Unfortunately, the details of how they pulled this off were never shared publicly. Today, however, DeepSeek (an AI research...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 3, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Different sectors, different goals Recent events have got me thinking about AI as it relates to our civic institutions — think government, education, public libraries, and so on. We often forget that civic and governmental organizations are inherently deeply different...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 3, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Introduction AI is everywhere. It is hard not to interact at least once a day with a Large Language Model (LLM). The chatbots are here to stay. They’re in your apps, they help you write better, they compose emails, they read emails…well, they do a lot. And I don’t...