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AI + analytics = value? (2/2) - why are we still having problems getting the data foundation right. (And does it really matter?)

In the first part of this article, Domo Chief AI and Analytics Officer Ben Schein argued that enterprises need to put their data foundations in place before embarking on AI adoption. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that this needs to be 100% perfect or complete.

Can organizations move forward with AI when the data foundation isn’t completely in order? Schein says yes, and AI can help by cleaning the data and identifying gaps:

Here's this dashboard which had the official metrics we share with the CEO for earnings. Okay, this gives me some metrics. Let me make sure those are clean. Let me check for inconsistencies. Let me use those metrics and the way you had this laid out, and the different filters you had to create: an AI dictionary for that data to explain to the AI how we think it works based upon what we've seen in the...

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Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year

Google wants to release Gemini 4 “much earlier” than the end of the year, said Koray Kavukcuoglu, who runs Google DeepMind. The model is now in post-training, the stage where engineers refine its behaviour and test its safety. Google is also trying it out inside its Antigravity coding tool. Kavukcuoglu

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DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records

The District of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) is notifying nearly 400,000 people that their personal information was potentially compromised in a data breach. According to the agency, the incident impacts Medicaid and the DC Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries who enrolled between 2023 and 2026. The data breach

The US Government Plans To Use AI To Help Redact Documents

The DHS will use Google's AI tools to recommend information to be blacked out of FOIA requests. Ascannio/Shutterstock Document redactions have been in the spotlight lately thanks to the US Justice Department's Epstein file release, which used it to black out text in millions of

After 40 years, Excel is breaking one of its oldest rules: one cell, one value

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. First look: Microsoft is testing a version of Excel that allows users to put more than one value inside a cell, a break from the spreadsheet program's longstanding one-cell, one-value model. The

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Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year

DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records

The US Government Plans To Use AI To Help Redact Documents

After 40 years, Excel is breaking one of its oldest rules: one cell, one value