Jenn Snider

Ka-BOOM? For the past several years there has been periodic buzz about a possible second housing market bubble exploding. Remember a few years ago when the global economy crashed, because lenders dished out subprime mortgages like snake oil and preyed on the most vulnerable? Very simply, they issued mortgages to people who could not make […]

Big data. You’ve heard all about it since the 1990s. It’s been both the bane of IT’s evolution and the catalyst for so many amazing innovations in digital transformation. Back then, Howard Rheingold wrote forward-thinking books about “mind-expanding technologies.” He was talking about how our intelligence can be amplified with new technologies and, in this […]

As the volume, variety, and types of data that businesses collect and analyze grows exponentially, so too has the need for an easier way to manage it all. In a world where data is at the heart of most processes within an organization, finding better and quicker ways to collect, clean, aggregate, and align data […]

What’s all this about technology “democratization?” Gartner gets credit for the quotes. It’s been all the buzz for some time, but especially since Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020: Democratization hit the ‘net. But let’s get something straight. The notion that more people could have access to technology if only it weren’t so darned […]

What is outsourcing? Businesses outsource many functions as the most cost-effective and strategic means to maintain focus. A classic example is payroll outsourcing, where relevant employee work data is exported to the payroll vendor, who produces paychecks, direct deposits, records of deduction, and the rest of those things that an internal payroll department would normally […]

Enter “digital transformation” into your favorite search engine and you will uncover thousands of contemporary articles on the topic. Important trends for business are detailed, for example, in eWeek’s January 28, 2022 7 Digital Transformation Trends Shaping 2022, including hyperautomation, more effective cybersecurity, further applications of artificial intelligence, speed and agility in decision-making, low-code/no-code tools, […]

Like the rest of the world, the team at Gemini Data has caught Wordle fever. That got us thinking… could using our product, Gemini Explore, make us better at Wordle?   The thrill of Wordle is experiencing an a-ha moment (guessing the word!) by understanding relationships between data elements (letters) and understanding the context (possible […]

Analyzing data is one of the most critical aspects of decision making for most organizations, and it touches just about every aspect of a business. Data exploration is the first crucial step in data analysis, where a large data set is explored in an unstructured way to uncover trends, patterns, and outliers. At this stage […]