

Orchestrate all the Things
George Anadiotis
Connecting the dots with George Anadiotis: Analyst, Consultant, Engineer, Founder, Host, Researcher, and Writer.
Stories about Tech, Data, AI and Media, and how they flow into each other shaping our lives.
I’ve engaged from the likes of Gary Marcus and Andrew Ng to emerging thinkers and innovators across multiple domains.
My stories have been featured on ZDNet and VentureBeat, and are syndicated across DZone, Hackernoon, Medium and Substack.
Some might call this futurism; let’s just say it’s connecting the dots
Many conversations have a technical focus. Most also examine business perspectives and use cases, while others are socio-technical.
Some are analyses on emerging themes – picking them up early, featuring expert comment, or offering alternative takes.
Others cover breaking news, typically also featuring the people behind them plus some analysis. There are some book reviews as well.
I focus on the connection between data, analytics, data science, graphs, machine learning and AI and their impact on society and business.
I have been covering topics related to:
AI and Machine LearningData, Analytics and Data ScienceKnowledge Graphs, Graph Databases, Graph AI & Data ScienceInnovation, and a wide array of technologies such as Blockchain, Cloud, Observability, IoT, Open Data and Open Source, Social Media and Software Engineering.
For inquiries, please use https://linkeddataorchestration.com/contact/
Stories about Tech, Data, AI and Media, and how they flow into each other shaping our lives.
I’ve engaged from the likes of Gary Marcus and Andrew Ng to emerging thinkers and innovators across multiple domains.
My stories have been featured on ZDNet and VentureBeat, and are syndicated across DZone, Hackernoon, Medium and Substack.
Some might call this futurism; let’s just say it’s connecting the dots
Many conversations have a technical focus. Most also examine business perspectives and use cases, while others are socio-technical.
Some are analyses on emerging themes – picking them up early, featuring expert comment, or offering alternative takes.
Others cover breaking news, typically also featuring the people behind them plus some analysis. There are some book reviews as well.
I focus on the connection between data, analytics, data science, graphs, machine learning and AI and their impact on society and business.
I have been covering topics related to:
AI and Machine LearningData, Analytics and Data ScienceKnowledge Graphs, Graph Databases, Graph AI & Data ScienceInnovation, and a wide array of technologies such as Blockchain, Cloud, Observability, IoT, Open Data and Open Source, Social Media and Software Engineering.
For inquiries, please use https://linkeddataorchestration.com/contact/
Episodes
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Sep 21, 2021 • 55min
Machine learning at the edge: A hardware and software ecosystem. Featuring Alif Semiconductors Sr. Marketing Manager Henrik Flodell, Arm Director of Ecosystem and Developer Relations Machine Learning Philip Lewer, Neuton CTO Blair Newman
Henrik Flodell, Philip Lewer, and Blair Newman discuss the significance of hardware and software cooperation for deploying machine learning applications at the edge. They explore Neuton's architecture, optimizing power draw for cellular enabled devices, and future plans for growth in the tiny ML and AI on the edge space.

Sep 10, 2021 • 58min
DeepMind wants to reconcile Deep Learning and classical computer science algorithms with Neural Algorithmic Reasoning. Featuring DeepMind's Petar Veličković and Charles Blundell, MILA's Andreea Deac
Will Deep Learning really be able to do everything? We don't really know.
But if it's going to, it will have to assimilate how classical computer science algorithms work. This is what DeepMind is working on, and its success is important to the eventual uptake of neural networks in wider commercial applications.
This work goes by the name of Neural Algorithmic Reasoning. Join us as we discuss roots and first principles, the defining characteristics, similarities and differences of algorithms and Deep Learning models with the people who came up with this.
We also cover the details of how Neural Algorithmic Reasoning works, as well as future directions and applications in areas such as path finding for Google Maps
Could this be the one algorithm to rule them all?
Article published on VentureBeat.
Image: Getty

Sep 2, 2021 • 38min
The State of MLOps in 2021. Featuring New Relic Lead Researcher Ori Cohen and Monte Carlo Co-Founder Lior Gavish
MLOps is the art and science of bringing machine learning to production, and it means many things to many people. The State of MLOps is an effort to define and monitor this market
Article published on ZDNet

Aug 17, 2021 • 47min
Apollo GraphQL announces $130 Million Series D Funding, wants to define its own category. Featuring CEO & Founder Geoff Schmidt
GraphQL is a specification that came at just the right time to address an age-old issue in software engineering: service integration. Apollo's implementation is seeing lots of traction, and it just got more gas in the tank for its grand vision that goes well beyond integration.
Article published on ZDNet

Jul 19, 2021 • 31min
MLGUI: Building user interfaces for machine learning applications. Featuring KPMG Germany Senior Data Engineer Philip Vollet
Machine learning is eating the world, and spilling over to established disciplines in software, too. After MLOps, is the world ready to welcome MLGUI?
Philip Vollet is somewhat of a celebrity, all things considered. Miley Cyrus or Lebron James he is not, at least not yet, but if data science lives up to the hype, who knows.
As the senior data engineer with KPMG Germany, Vollet leads a small team of machine learning and data engineers building the integration layer for internal company data, with access standardization for internal and external stakeholders. Outside of KPMG, Vollet has built a tool chain to find, process, and share content on data science, machine learning, natural language processing, and open source using exactly those technologies, which makes for a case of meta, if nothing else.
There is a flood of social media influencers sharing perspectives on data science and machine learning. While most influencers direct their attention solely toward issues of model building and infrastructure scaling, Vollet also looks at the user view, or frameworks for building user interfaces for applications utilizing machine learning. We were intrigued to discuss with him how building these user interfaces is necessary to unlock AI's true potential.
Article published on VentureBeat.
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Jul 7, 2021 • 37min
Open source growth and venture capital investment: data, databases, challenges and opportunities. Featuring Runa Capital Principal Konstantin Vinogradov
Konstantin Vinogradov, a Principal at Runa Capital, shares insights on the evolving landscape of open source software and its commercialization. He discusses how investors are now recognizing the potential of open source companies, shifting from skepticism to acceptance. The conversation delves into metrics for evaluating open source projects and introduces a new growth index based on GitHub data. Konstantin also explores successful ventures like Athens Research in the competitive note-taking market and the diverse dynamics of funding in open source.

Jun 22, 2021 • 53min
More than words: Shedding light on the data terminology mess. Featuring Soda Founders Maarten Masschelein and Tom Baeyens
It's a data terminology mess out there. Let's try and untangle it, because there's more to words than lingo.
Hopefully technology investment decisions in your organization are made based on more than hype. But as technology is evolving faster than ever, it's hard to keep up with all the terminology that describes it. Some people see terminology as an obfuscation layer meant to glorify the ones who come up with it, hype products, and make people who throw terms around appear smart.
There may be some truth in this, but that does not mean terminology is useless. Terminology is there to address a real need, which is to describe emerging concepts in a fast moving domain. Ideally, a shared vocabulary should facilitate understanding of different concepts, market segments, and products.
Case in point - data and metadata management. Have you heard the terms data management, data observability, data fabric, data mesh, DataOps, MLOps and AIOps before? Do you know what each of them means, exactly, and how they are all related? Here's your chance to find out, getting definitions right from the source - seasoned experts working in the field.
Article published on ZDNet

Jun 17, 2021 • 26min
The biggest investment in database history, the biggest social network ever, and other graph stories from Neo4j. Featuring CEO and Co-founder Emil Eifrem
A $325 million Series F funding round, bringing Neo4j's valuation to over $2 billion. A social network of 3 billion people, distributed across 1000 servers. The latter is a demo, the former is not. But both are real signs that the graph market and Neo4j are getting seriously big.
If you're into the market and investment side of things, how does a Series F funding round as part of a $325 million investment led by Eurazeo and GV (formerly Google Ventures), bringing Neo4j's valuation to over $2 billion sound? Pretty impressive, probably.
If you're into the technology and applications side of things, how does a Neo4j demo of a social network application with 3 billion people, running queries designed to test the limits of graph query languages and databases across a 1000 node cluster sound? Equally impressive, probably.
Graph database vendor Neo4j CEO and co-founder Emil Eifrem is announcing the former and showcasing the latter today, at the company's annual virtual conference NODES. We caught up with Eifrem to get a taste of things to come.
Article published on ZDNet

Jun 7, 2021 • 1h 6min
Machine learning at the edge: TinyML is getting big. Featuring Qualcomm Senior Director Evgeni Gousev, Neuton CTO Blair Newman and Google Staff Research Engineer Pete Warden
Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge is the key to unlocking a multi-billion dollar market. TinyML is the art and science of producing machine learning models frugal enough to work at the edge, and it's seeing rapid growth.
Edge computing is booming. Although the definition of what constitutes edge computing is a bit fuzzy, the idea is simple. It's about taking compute out of the data center, and bringing it as close to where the action is as possible.
Whether it's stand-alone IoT sensors, devices of all kinds, drones, or autonomous vehicles, there's one thing in common. Increasingly, data generated on the edge are used to feed applications powered by machine learning models.
There's just one problem: machine learning models were never designed to be deployed on the edge. Not until now, at least. Enter TinyML.
Tiny machine learning (TinyML) is broadly defined as a fast growing field of machine learning technologies and applications including hardware, algorithms and software capable of performing on-device sensor data analytics at extremely low power, typically in the mW range and below, and hence enabling a variety of always-on use-cases and targeting battery operated devices.
Article published on ZDNet

May 28, 2021 • 1h 4min
Graphs as a foundational technology stack: analytics, AI, and hardware. Featuring Neo4j CEO and Founder Emil Eifrem, Graph Data Science Director Alicia Frame
Graphs are everywhere. That has been the motto of graph afficionados for years, and now it seems that the world is waking up to this.
How would you feel if you saw demand for your favorite topic, which also happens to be your line of business, grow 1000% in two-years time? Vindicated, overjoyed, and a bit overstretched in trying to keep up with demand, probably.
Although Emil Eifrem never used those exact words when we discussed the past, present and future of graphs, that's a reasonable projection to make. Eifrem is the CEO and co-founder of Neo4j, a graph database company which lays claims to having popularized the term "graph database", and to leading the graph database category.
Eifrem and Neo4j's story and insights are interesting because through them we can trace what is shaping up as a foundational technology stack for the 2020s and beyond: graphs.
"Graph Relates Everything" is how Gartner put it, when including graphs in its top 10 data and analytics technology trends for 2021. Interest is expanding as graph data takes on a role in master data management, tracking laundered money, connecting Facebook friends and powering Google, in search and beyond.
Think Panama Papers researchers, NASA engineers, and Fortune 500 leaders: they all use graphs. Here's why, and how.
Article published on VentureBeat.
Image: Getty Images


