ThoughtSpot Pushes Upstream With Agentic Data Preparation

Agentic analytics platform ThoughtSpot launched its next generation of Analyst Studio, which it claims offers a “new suite of capabilities to revolutionize how data teams deliver AI-ready data with speed, flexibility and control.” The analytics market has spent the last decade obsessing over usability. They wanted faster dashboards and queries, while keeping the interface easy…

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Python’s popularity slip: Here’s what we know

Python faces new challenges from old rivals, but is it a blip or something more? In other news, we have goodies like easy-install instances of PostgreSQL, a peek at the state of the art in visual development for generative AI projects in Python, and sneaky tricks to share Python tooling across local projects. Top picks…

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Context Engineering Will Decide Enterprise AI Success, Says Cognizant CIO Neal Ramasamy

Artificial intelligence dominated discussions at Davos this year, but inside enterprises the conversation has shifted from excitement to execution. Organizations are moving quickly to deploy agents and automation. However, many are discovering that technology alone does not guarantee operational value.  Against that backdrop, Neal Ramasamy, Chief Information Officer at Cognizant, shared his perspective with BigDATAwire…

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The 200ms latency: A developer’s guide to real-time personalization

For engineers building high-concurrency applications in e-commerce, fintech or media, the “200ms limit” is a hard ceiling. It is the psychological threshold where interaction feels instantaneous. If a personalized homepage, search result or “Up Next” queue takes longer than 200 milliseconds to load, user abandonment spikes. There is a famous study from Amazon showing that…

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