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The Great Data Integration Schlep — LessWrong

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This is a little rant I like to give, because it’s something I learned on the job that I’ve never seen written up explicitly. There are a bunch of buzzwords floating around regarding computer technology in an industrial or manufacturing context: “digital transformation”, “the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Industrial Internet of Things”. What do those things really mean? Do they mean anything at all? The answer is yes, and what they mean is the process of putting all of a company’s data on computers so it can be analyzed. This is the prerequisite to any kind of “AI” or even basic statistical analysis of that data; before you can start applying your fancy algorithms, you need to get that data in one place, in a tabular format. Each of these machines in a semiconductor fab probably stores its data locally. The team that operates one machine might not be able to see the data from the next one over. In a manufacturing context, a lot of important data is not on computers. Some data is not

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