Big Data Analytics: At The Tip Of Your Tongue

Imagine reliably asking Amazon Alexa, Amazon Echo Dot, Google Home, or a chatbot to run analytics queries against a big data platform. For example, "What were the top three revenue generating products last week?" Big Data at the tip of your tongue -- pun intended. The concept of conversing with a computer is very interesting and has been around for a while -- think Star Trek's "LCARS" and Hal from "A Space Odyssey". While we might be a long way off from those realities, recent advancements from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM and other natural language and AI technologies have brought us closer.