We work with a product line that produces online event for companies (bear with me, this isn’t an ad). This is for webinars, virtual conferences, etc. The goal of nearly every one of these events is to gather information about your attendees to be able to better serve them by knowing what they’re most interested in. So, to that end, […]
Ethics
Will the GDPR Lead To More Data Silos?
When I first started reading this post, “The battle for control of data could be just starting” I was thinking that it was interesting that some services were feeling the pinch to get their data out of “the big guys” in terms of awareness and IP surrounding accounts and people. Basically, some companies are re-thinking marketing engines and services and […]
Statistics Can Lie, Big Data Ethics and More
There were some excellent comments yesterday on the post about statistics — and some great references. “Statistics can produce alternative facts. When you can’t agree with the facts you have no basis for a rational decision. Then when you make a decision based on alternative facts you can tweak the statistics to tell whatever story you want since there are […]
Statistics Can Say Whatever You Like…
It’s amazing how many times you can see that quote – or one very similar, as people are rationalizing information they need to have access to in order to make their case. “Statistics,” I think, is too specific – I think it should be “Data Can Be Made to Say Whatever You Like…” I can’t tell you how many times […]
Blind Trust of AI for SQL Server… Even Now
With so much happening with AI and so many instant wins, it’s easy to remember to step carefully into the darkness. I’ve been seeing and hearing so many more questions, stories, suggestions and other feedback about “it said to do “X”, so I did… what do you mean that might not have been the best solution?” There are so many […]
The DBA Code of Ethics
In April of 2006, we worked out a code of ethics for DBAs. I wanted to post it here and get your feedback. I think it pertains fairly well, even after more than 11 years. What would you add or change? This cannot happen in a vacuum though. It takes your feedback, your comments. I’ll do my best to pull […]
How Do Systems Learn, When the Questions Aren’t Known?
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re quickly gaining on having information that we can use to help address some of the issues going on in the world. Almost predictively. You can tell because so many time we’re able to look back on an incident and see the information bits that we known and draw conclusions about whatever is […]
We’re Just Getting Started with AI…
Remember, we’re dipping our toes in the proverbial pool at this point with AI. There are incredible things going on, and things we’re learning can be applied and learned from yet again. What strikes me is that we expect all of this to be perfect at such a “young” time in the technologies. Yesterday, the editorial was about AI and […]
Do You Disclose Immediately… Or…?
One of the big news items of the day is that Microsoft’s internal database of vulnerabilities was hacked in 2013. That’s a while ago! As I was reading all of the posts talking about how these types of things should immediately be disclosed, and that it applies not only to a hack of systems, but also disclosing vulnerabilities, I found […]
PowerBI, Using that Data, IoT and the Borg
Yesterday Ben posted about where, exactly, the responsibility for security lays. Is it with the DBA? The network team? Is it with the person or team that could have prevented the latest breach? It’s a great question. Make sure you check out the post if you haven’t seen it yet. (Here’s a link) As we continue this revolution into more […]