All Hands on Data #68
Welcome back to week 68 of All Hands on Data! Check out our team's favorite articles that they read this week below.
Tailor ChatGPT to Fit Your Needs with Custom Instructions
I had yet to try out ChatGPT's new Custom Instructions when I came across this article. Arya's example is superb in demonstrating the power behind the new feature (and, bonus, learn more about the moon!). Allowing users to give ChatGPT some general information about who they are and how the they want interact with the AI proves to be quite effective in producing more specific and relevant information. Context really is everything. - Katt Baum
Making the Case for Automated, Forward-Looking Data Management
This article speaks to the shift in trends in the data space where automation is key, and this article validates that a lot of these companies are shifting their focus to automation but lack the tools to do so. - Angel Catalan
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plan for enterprise customers
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Enterprise, a more powerful version of ChatGPT for businesses, with double the speed and larger context window than the standard GPT-4 model; however, despite acute interest from Fortune 500 companies, it's unclear if ChatGPT has staying power as traffic dropped recently, so OpenAI is under pressure to monetize the tool to justify the high compute costs, aiming for 200M revenue this year and 1B next year. - Johnathan Rodriguez
The Supply Chain Data Scientist
The author, an experienced supply chain professional, lays out the case for what he sees as a new speciality within the data space: the supply chain data scientist. While it faces a lot of the same hurdles to establish these roles within a company (e.g. executive buy-in) it could help improve companies focusing on supply chains which in turn bolster our supply chains. Couldn't hurt with that backlog sitting off of Long Beach. - John Forstmeier
4 data compliance standards to know for 2023
Want to avoid the data security police?? Adhering to data compliance standards is imperative in order to achieve SOC 2 compliance. This article breaks down the 4 standards to know in 2023 to help reach and maintain the compliance standards. The added benefit? Trust from your vendors and users knowing that their data is safe, and your product is optimal. - Reed Cowan
Delayed and Derailed: How Public Transit and Data Pipelines Fail Their Passengers
After a few bad transit experiences, it had never been clearer to me how similar the process of building data pipelines is. Instead of delivering yourself to a destination, you're just delivering data. If we take a hard look at all the public transit issues we personally face and apply those fixes to our own data pipelines, maybe we can all deliver data with less frustration. Worth a read for the mindset shift alone! - Blake Burch