{"id":21617,"date":"2023-11-13T11:09:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=21617"},"modified":"2023-11-13T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:09:55","slug":"generative-ai-dirty-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/generative-ai-dirty-data.html","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI & Dirty Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Data is like children, it’s constantly on the move, and loves to get dirty — but holds out the promise of huge new value in the organization, thanks to Generative AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just listened to industry veteran analysts Jon Reed<\/a> and Josh Greenbaum<\/a> discuss the recent ASUG Tech Connect Event in Orlando<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I strongly urge you to take a listen to the whole thing<\/a>, but one thing jumped out: that bad data is one of the biggest problems organizations face when trying to take advantage of Generative AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn’t surprising\u2014garbage in, garbage out\u2014but as both Jon and Josh pointed out, this represents a new opportunity to get funding and attention for what organizations should have been doing the whole time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IT organizations have good excuses: it’s hard to build executive enthusiasm for something as seemingly plumbing-related as data quality. And poor data quality isn’t a technical problem, it’s almost<\/em> always<\/em> a reflection of broken business processes and bad incentives\u2014so fixing it without business ownership and support is near impossible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generative AI increases the ROI you can get from clean data, and new Business Data Fabric approaches (SAP Datasphere<\/a> + strategic partnerships) are making it easier to achieve than ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you want to move forward with Generative AI, you first probably need to take a small step backwards, and build a solid information foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Data is like children, it’s constantly on the move, and loves to get dirty — but holds out the promise of huge new value in the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[100,226,342,579,1472,1495],"class_list":["post-21617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practice","tag-analytics","tag-cartoon","tag-data-quality","tag-humor","tag-sap-btp","tag-sap-datasphere"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Data-is-like-children-it-loves-to-get-dirty-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C1135&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-5CF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21619,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions\/21619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}