The important work starts six months before the query in getting data instrumented. I wonder if the AI enabled business leaders will have the foresight to ask in advance. When I have seen it work business, analytics and data build a close relationship that starts with the first "go for" request to the Analyst.
Very good article Ergest! Totally aligned with the best opinions I have read, "adapt or die", but at this pace of change, I won't be surprised if the big AIs will come out with something more efficient than SQL in the future, as with the rest of programming languages.
The burden of being the "human interface to the database" is possibly not that this is not really data science but that it is always the same stupid questions that do not cohere into a model of the business. Being the person who can figure out how to write the most complicated SQL query could be a source of pride.
Waiting complicated SQL sure was a source of pride for me! The thing that annoyed me most was the follow up questions that would not stop and would require days of data preparation for a one off.
The important work starts six months before the query in getting data instrumented. I wonder if the AI enabled business leaders will have the foresight to ask in advance. When I have seen it work business, analytics and data build a close relationship that starts with the first "go for" request to the Analyst.
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Very good article Ergest! Totally aligned with the best opinions I have read, "adapt or die", but at this pace of change, I won't be surprised if the big AIs will come out with something more efficient than SQL in the future, as with the rest of programming languages.
The burden of being the "human interface to the database" is possibly not that this is not really data science but that it is always the same stupid questions that do not cohere into a model of the business. Being the person who can figure out how to write the most complicated SQL query could be a source of pride.
Waiting complicated SQL sure was a source of pride for me! The thing that annoyed me most was the follow up questions that would not stop and would require days of data preparation for a one off.