AI + Data

Better AI starts with better problem framing, better data, and better decision structure. These posts look at how data science, machine learning, and generative AI work together to produce decisions people actually use.

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The Skill That Determines Whether Your AI Project Succeeds Before It Starts

Most AI projects fail not because the models are wrong, but because the problem was never defined correctly. Problem framing and measurement are the unglamorous foundations that separate projects that deliver value from projects that deliver dashboards.

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The Customer Intelligence Architecture

Most organizations have more customer data than they know what to do with. The problem is not data volume — it is the absence of a coherent intelligence architecture that connects what customers do to what the business should do next.

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The Three Layers of Good Decisions Under Uncertainty

Most decision failures aren't failures of information. They're failures of structure. Here's the framework that separates people who decide well from people who just decide.

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The Data Stack Is Getting a Reasoning Layer

The modern data stack has become very good at executing specified work. The next layer helps it reason across context and perform bounded work across the data lifecycle.

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From Data to Decisions: Building Products That Actually Get Used

Most data science work never reaches production. The gap between insight and action is not a technical problem — it's a design problem, a communication problem, and sometimes a courage problem.

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Recommender Systems in the Age of Generative AI

Recommender systems have quietly shaped how billions of people discover content, products, and ideas. Generative AI is now rewriting what these systems can do — and the implications go deeper than better suggestions.

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Hierarchies and Graphs: Two Lenses to See the World

Two structures underlie nearly every system worth understanding. Hierarchies impose order through layers and abstraction. Graphs reveal complexity through connection. Learning to see with both changes how you think about everything.

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