A poem about data

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OpenAI's ChatGPT has made the news recently as a next-generation conversational agent. It has a surprising breadth which made me wonder, could OpenAI generate specific technology content good enough to post, and what would that imply for the future?

I have worked with data for decades. There are the two key lessons I share with every customer, stakeholder and beginner in the field. Firstly, follow the data, not (only) your gut or experience. Secondly, do not trust the data; never. Why and what has this to do with Luddites?

I never wanted to be a solo founder. Yet, in 2021, I quit my job and started Bold Data to mine the Internet single-handedly. Trust me, it sounds as insane to write as to read. What on earth possessed me, and more importantly, would I do it again?

According to an adage, big data is anything too big for Excel, i.e. more than 1,048,576 rows. It is a bit cheek-in-tongue, but, as with many jokes, it is grounded in truth. Many business processes run on Excel to this day. That is an issue when analysing datasets like Amazon product data for valuable insight on pricing, production and supply planning, and new product or category development. Excel cannot load a single country's Amazon bestseller list. Even if you use more scalable systems, many will struggle to analyse the more comprehensive product catalogue, complex product and category relationships, or changes over time.

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