AI and Textual Data: Context before Compute
Instructors: Bill Inmon, Derek Strauss
Course Overview
Most corporate decisions still rest on the small slice of data that already fits a table. Largely ignored, Textual Data is the majority of the corporation. Early attempts to utilize that data have misfired. AI does not remove the need to integrate, contextualize, and warehouse text; it raises the cost of skipping those steps. Search, embeddings, and LLMs are first-generation tools unless they sit on taxonomies, textual ETL, and a textual warehouse.
Instructors
Derek Strauss
Managing Director, Gavroshe
Derek Strauss is the Managing Director of Gavroshe, a data management and analytics consulting firm. He has more than 25 years of experience helping organizations design and implement enterprise data strategies, data governance frameworks, and data management programs. Derek is a recognized thought leader in the CDO community and has worked with organizations across financial services, healthcare, government, and other sectors. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and a contributor to the CDOIQ Symposium.
Bill Inmon
Founder, Chairman, CEO, Best-Selling Author, University of Denver Advisory Board Member
William H. Inmon is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference, wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing. Inmon created the accepted definition of what a data warehouse is - a subject-oriented, non-volatile, integrated, time-variant collection of data in support of management’s decisions.
In 2012, Inmon developed and made public technology known as "textual disambiguation". Textual disambiguation applies context to raw text and reformats the raw text and context into a standard data base format. Once raw text is passed through textual disambiguation, it can easily and efficiently be accessed and analyzed by standard business intelligence technology, as well as AI. Textual disambiguation is accomplished through the execution of TextualETL.
Inmon owns and operates Forest Rim Technology, a company that applies and implements data warehousing solutions executed through textual disambiguation and TextualETL.
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