The Histogram Is Still the Most Powerful Data Product with DJ Patil @oreilly

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DJ Patil co-coined the term "data scientist" and has spent his career at the intersection of data infrastructure and real-world decision-making, from LinkedIn to the White House to Devoted Health. He’s well acquainted with agents, context windows, and where AI sits in the data stack, but it doesn’t always take the latest cutting-edge tech to empower users with data. As DJ explained in his recent conversation with Tim O’Reilly, “Oftentimes I tell people the most powerful data product that you can build is still a histogram.”

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