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The Case for Human Conversations: Why Data Professionals Remain Critical in the Age of AI Agents Like Gemini in Looker

In Google’s latest Gemini At Work webinar event, the company reviewed AI agents for Looker. Gemini is Google’s AI ecosystem.; Looker is its business intelligence (BI) platform. These artificial intelligence agents are data agents that assist users at each step along the path of transforming data into insights. I am intrigued by Google’s seductive promise […]

Repair or Replace? How Bad Information Can Derail Decision Quality.

Repair or Replace? How Bad Information Can Derail Decision Quality.

Over the summer my 18-year old recumbent exercise bike failed. The bike had saved me countless trips to the gym over the years, especially in the early years when I lived many miles away from a gym and bike trails. Now, with the pedaling locked into the hardest effort level, I faced an age-old decision: […]