Data Points

The negative and positive sides of the jagged AI frontier

The person saying “AI is incredible” is not hallucinating.

Sep 11 • Adriana Beal

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February 2026

Confidently Incorrect

When AI productivity gains come with statistically significant nonsense

Feb 18 • Adriana Beal

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November 2025

Evidence-Based Recommendations for Everyone but Myself

Why Data Analysts Wing Their Own Professional Development Decisions

Nov 28, 2025 • Adriana Beal

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September 2025

The "old school" secret to extracting value from generative AI and beyond

Frequent reports about how companies with AI-led processes are outperforming their peers is helping drive a huge interest in introducing Generative AI…

Sep 17, 2025 • Adriana Beal

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February 2025

Specificity is the way

Key questions to create high-impact data visualizations in the age of AI

Feb 13, 2025 • Adriana Beal

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April 2024

LLM mistakes to avoid (Part II)

The key for effective model evaluation is to start from a clear-cut use case

Apr 8, 2024 • Adriana Beal

Mistakes to avoid when using LLM-powered chatbots for business

Part I: Why tests designed for humans shouldn't be trusted to measure LLMs' capabilities

Apr 4, 2024

March 2024

Three mistakes causing your "data-driven" strategies to fail to create breakthrough performance

(And how to fix them)

Mar 14, 2024 • Adriana Beal

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November 2023

Data needs people more than people need data

Back in 2018, alarmist headlines about Amazon’s Whole Foods stealing Trader Joe’s shoppers were everywhere.

Nov 7, 2023 • Adriana Beal

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September 2023

AI rich, insight poor

The challenge plaguing corporate generative AI efforts in customer service

Sep 6, 2023 • Adriana Beal

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August 2023

Why generative AI is just the latest technology getting in the way of smart data management

The problem persists, but don't blame large language models for it

Aug 27, 2023 • Adriana Beal

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May 2023

How to increase your individual productivity with free generative AI

Even if, like me, you refuse to use ChatGPT for content creation

May 23, 2023 • Adriana Beal

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