Like a few million other people, I recently looked in to see what ChatGPT was all about. Reactions to this chatbot from OpenAI has run the gamut from dismissing it as a useless toy to fear of massive job obsolescence to total apocalypse for humans as a species. I wanted to experience for myself how …
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It’s Not Only Video Chat: Plan How You Collaborate
One of the appealing features of consulting as a job is the variety it provides in the people you work with, the problems you face and company cultures you get to experience. Having to work with different sets of office applications across this array of experiences can be edifying or frustrating. On-line meeting tools are …
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Visualizing a Controversy
For anyone interested in data visualization, there had to be some level of satisfaction in seeing the controversy sparked by a chart tweeted out by Bill Gates. The chart, one of several in an infographic Gates included in a tweet was a fairly simple area chart, but the concept it was illustrating (or purporting to …
Hydrakos Consulting is Five Years Old
Hydrakos Consulting LLC is five years old this month. It has been an excellent, if very ephemeral, five years. This post is to commemorate the anniversary and so is a little more personal. I set up Hydrakos Consulting as a vehicle for me to ease my way from the frenetically paced financial services technology world …
A Security Framework Deadline Passes with Little Notice
Another data disclosure fiasco is in the news now. Data from fitness monitors is apparently giving away troop and base locations around the globe. It is somewhat surprising given the frequency of disclosures like this that a fairly significant deadline concerning information security just passed by with hardly any notice. The deadline was for any …
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ARE DATA STANDARDS ABOUT TO TRANSFORM EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY?
A while back I commented on the lessons the Financial Services industry data standardization process might offer to the Healthcare industry. Since then I’ve become actively involved in another standardization effort, this time in K-12 education. At the recent annual summit of the Ed-Fi Alliance, I was reminded again of the early days of expanding …
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