Data Products: What Has to Be in Place Before an Agent Can Build Them?
In June, at TDWI in Munich, I watched an AI agent build a data product in about 18 minutes. That was pretty impressive, for me and for everyone in the room. During the talk it quickly became clear to me what has to be in place before something like that works.
3NF, Data Vault, Star Schema: Which Method Belongs in Which Layer
The conceptual model is finished, and from here on it gets built. The shortest implementation route from source to finished report is the one that skips a whole layer of the architecture, and it works, too — for as long as the assumptions behind it hold.
What Does “Employee” Mean? The Conceptual Model
How many employees do we have? Yerodin has been asking for three weeks. He does get answers, just a different number every time, and not one of them comes with a reason why that one should be the right one. Nothing is missing in the systems, not a row and not a status, and something is missing all the same — it simply never got written down, because nobody ever decided it.