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#348 UK Budget wobbles

Barb Wixom reads MIT CISR's November 2025 research briefing, which she co-authored with Joaquin Rodriguez, Gabriele Piccoli, and Cynthia Beath. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2025_1101_DataLiquidityLevers_WixomRodriguezPiccoliBeath.

Abstract: Organizations with big aspirations for leveraging AI technology increasingly need data assets with high data liquidity (i.e., ease of data asset reuse and recombination) to achieve their aims. This briefing draws on the multiyear journey of global manufacturer Caterpillar to illustrate how companies can successfully execute foundational data liquidity tactics by managing three data domain practice areas we call data liquidity levers. These areas—data architecture, data preparation, and data permissioning—function as levers to increase or limit data liquidity.

Data Liquidity Levers at Caterpillar

In this debut episode of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson dive into the unconventional paths that led them into developer tools, civic tech, and machine learning systems. CL recounts his experience building early open source infrastructure, mobilizing communities through data transparency projects, and now shaping how we design software around LLMs. This episode sets the tone for the show’s mission: celebrating builders who redefine the boundaries of what tools can do.

Data Renegades - Ep. #1, Introducing Data Renegades

Angie Judge and Ravi Chandra dive into the explosive adoption of ASK, Dexibit’s new conversational insight engine that’s reshaping how attractions work with their data. They explore why vertical AI outperforms general tools, what really happens behind RAG and retrieval, and how ASK can surface insight, act on it, and reveal nuance humans often miss. Expect Bruce Lee wisdom, baby-lion party tricks, and a candid look at the future of forecasting, simulation, and dynamic pricing. A fast, fun, insightful episode for any attraction leader ready to step into the next era of AI.

Bruce Lee, baby lions & ASK: AI superpowers for attractions

A soulful blues ballad that turns lantern light into data insight, celebrating Florence Nightingale’s fight to heal with heart and charts.

Lyrics:

Born in 1820, in Florence she took her stand,  
A rebel with a mission, and healing in her hand.  
By 1854, the war began to roar,  
She walked the halls of Scutari, through blood and fevered sores.  

Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp,  
She lit up the silence, she rewrote the stamp.  
With circles of sorrow, she charted the pain,  
And turned death into data, again and again.  

She drew her coxcomb diagram, a rose of truth and dread,  
Each wedge a month, each petal a cause—blue for disease, black for the dead.  
In 1858, she showed the House of Lords,  
That filth, not fighting, filled the graves behind the war.  

She said, “Let the numbers speak,” and they roared like thunder loud,  
Sanitation, ventilation—she moved the stubborn crowd.  
Today we build with metrics, we heal with plotted grace,  
But without her rose of warning, we’d still misread the case.  

Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp,  
She lit up the silence, she rewrote the stamp.  
With circles of sorrow, she charted the pain,  
And turned death into data, again and again.  

From 1820 to 1910, her light refused to dim,  
She taught the world to measure care, not just on whim.  
Florence Nightingale, forever we sing,  
The mother of nursing, the truth she’d bring.


Lady With The Lamp (Florence Nightingale - data visualization pioneer)

データに価値はない　Spotifyがのたまう
一枚のCDにグッズ以上の価値がない
録音だけではただのデータ
空虚明かされた今もうDRM不要

ヴェロニカ（データに価値はない）

In episode 2 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson speak with Simon Willison. Together they dive into the origins of Datasette, the evolution of data journalism, and the surprising ways open source tools shape global reporting. Simon also explains how LLM-based agents will redefine data cleaning, enrichment, and analysis. A must-listen for anyone building or scaling data teams.

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Data Renegades - Ep. #2, Data Journalism Unleashed with Simon Willison

On episode 3 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Maxime Beauchemin. They explore the origins of Airflow and Superset, the evolution of open source in the data ecosystem, and how today’s tooling reshapes the role of the data practitioner. Max also shares a forward-looking perspective on agentic workflows and how AI is accelerating everything from BI to pipeline development.

Data Renegades - Ep. #3, Building Tools That Shape Data with Maxime Beauchemin

O podcast que conecta líderes e especialistas em mídia digital inicia uma nova fase com a Edição Especial da Black Friday, dedicada a discutir as transformações e oportunidades do ecossistema de Retail Media no Brasil.
Neste segundo episódio, recebemos Victor Soffiatti, Diretor de Mídia e Performance da L’Oréal Brasil, para uma conversa sobre “A força da Black Friday na indústria cosmética” — um olhar estratégico sobre como a data se tornou um acelerador de inovação, integração de dados, otimização de investimentos e colaboração entre marcas, agências e varejistas, redefinindo o futuro do varejo digital.

Episódio 15: Beleza, dados e varejo. A força da Black Friday na indústria cosmética

In this episode, we sit down with Solution Architect Robert Alvarez to discuss the technology behind Pure Key-Value Accelerator (KVA) and its role in accelerating AI inference. Pure KVA is a protocol-agnostic, key-value caching solution that, when combined with FlashBlade data storage, dramatically improves GPU efficiency and consistency in AI environments. Robert—whose background includes time as a Santa Clara University professor, NASA Solution Architect, and work at CERN—explains how this innovation is essential for serving an entire fleet of AI workloads, including modern agentic or chatbot interfaces.

Robert dives into the massive growth of the AI Inference market, driven by the need for near real-time processing and low-latency AI applications. This trend makes the need for a solution like Pure KVA critical. He details how KVA removes the bottleneck of GPU memory and shares compelling benchmark results: up to twenty times faster inference with NFS and six times faster with S3, all over standard Ethernet. These performance gains are key to helping enterprises scale more efficiently and reduce overall GPU costs.

Beyond the technical deep dive, the episode explores the origin of the KVA idea, the unique Pure IP that enables it, and future integrations like Dynamo and the partnership with Comet for LLM observability. In the popular “Hot Takes” segment, Robert offers his perspective on blind spots IT leaders might have in managing AI data and shares advice for his younger self on the future of the data management space. 

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00:00 Intro and Welcome
02:21 Background on Our Guest
06:57 Stat of the Episode on AI Inferencing Spend
09:10 Why AI Inference is Difficult at Scale
11:00 How KV Cache Acceleration Works
14:50 Key Partnerships Using KVA
20:28 Hot Takes Segment


Accelerating Enterprise AI Inference with Pure KVA

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