it looks nice. My question though is that if this is lets say useful for end users, do I have to create read access accounts to each and everyone everytime someone sees its capabilities? Is there any way to embed the chat in a portal, or sharepoint or whatever, provide of course the access to each member in unity catalog but to avoid bringing them inside databricks workspace?
Impressive, databricks is missing one piece to nail it, they need the semantic model on top of tables, same as data source in power bi. Then it can fly
During the Data + AI Summit they announced "Metrics" - reusable business level calculations stored in Unity Catalog. We don't have much to share on it right now, but could well be a step towards filling in that gap, if they get it right!
Yeah, but Q&A you had to be very precise with your language - to the point of having to know the data model and a specific way of phrasing questions. Lots of people tried it and didn't get on with it because it didn't feel natural, or had hidden expected knowledge. This definitely feels a lot more open and engaging - but the showing of SQL etc might still put some people off. It's a big step closer, so I'm excited to see if it grabs people more than Q&A - Simon
Oof, don't get me wrong, Data Literacy is still INCREDIBLY important - this just helps us to move the technical barrier for some, and increase self-reliance for others. Certainly interesting questions come up around how we test/monitor accuracy in these systems over time, going to be an exciting time as companies wrangle with these problems!
So if your data is perfectly staged and perfectly documented and modeled, then someone who knows how to ask a correct question will get a dataset from a genned query.
Yes to the perfectly staged & documented, not necessarily to the "knows how to ask". That was the limitation with Power BI's Q&A, this is a LOT more forgiving with how the question is phrased compared to previous tools we've seen
it looks nice. My question though is that if this is lets say useful for end users, do I have to create read access accounts to each and everyone everytime someone sees its capabilities? Is there any way to embed the chat in a portal, or sharepoint or whatever, provide of course the access to each member in unity catalog but to avoid bringing them inside databricks workspace?
Looks promising, do they provide any sort of APIs to integrate with external tools?
Hrm, good question, haven't looked to see if we can call it externally. I'll keep an eye out - expect a video if it's possible!
Sold on GenBI 🙂
Impressive, databricks is missing one piece to nail it, they need the semantic model on top of tables, same as data source in power bi. Then it can fly
During the Data + AI Summit they announced "Metrics" - reusable business level calculations stored in Unity Catalog. We don't have much to share on it right now, but could well be a step towards filling in that gap, if they get it right!
Microsoft Q & A never really caught on. We'll see how this does.
Yeah, but Q&A you had to be very precise with your language - to the point of having to know the data model and a specific way of phrasing questions. Lots of people tried it and didn't get on with it because it didn't feel natural, or had hidden expected knowledge.
This definitely feels a lot more open and engaging - but the showing of SQL etc might still put some people off. It's a big step closer, so I'm excited to see if it grabs people more than Q&A - Simon
If data literacy is no longer necessary, who validates an answer from the AI?
Oof, don't get me wrong, Data Literacy is still INCREDIBLY important - this just helps us to move the technical barrier for some, and increase self-reliance for others. Certainly interesting questions come up around how we test/monitor accuracy in these systems over time, going to be an exciting time as companies wrangle with these problems!
So if your data is perfectly staged and perfectly documented and modeled, then someone who knows how to ask a correct question will get a dataset from a genned query.
Yes to the perfectly staged & documented, not necessarily to the "knows how to ask". That was the limitation with Power BI's Q&A, this is a LOT more forgiving with how the question is phrased compared to previous tools we've seen
Oh, I thought this was medallion one, but they should be good too because I’m not impressed with what I saw in “duhbricks”demo the other week