Summary:We catch up with BeyondCore CEO Arijit Sengupta and chat about how too many fancy graphics and artificial intelligence powered magic boxes may lead to big data disillusionment.

Big data, artificial intelligence and visualization may be nearing an emperor has no clothes intersection as we regular humans---business managers---start believing in beautiful but statistically insignificant graphics and magic boxes that are marketed as experts systems.

Simply put, the whole big data and analytics movement may be hitting Gartner's trough of disillusionment. You knew the trough was coming. Consider the following developments:

Today, you can't escape the Internet of things and all that data that'll be thrown off from devices. Let's table the discussion about what we'll do with that information. We'll figure it out at some point, say business execs.

Sure they will.

BeyondCore CEO Arijit SenguptaThat backdrop is one reason why my conversation with BeyondCore CEO Arijit Sengupta was so timely. Sengupta's company is 18 months old and has landed 23 Fortune 100 clients. BeyondCore's lead product, which takes any data with at least 1,000 rows (the more rows the better) and took eight years of research to develop, aims to tell the average business user a statistically significant narrative without a human question to initiate the discussion.

The key words in that previous sentence is statistically relevant and narrative. Sengupta's beef is that today's artificial intelligence is taking human intuition out of the equation. That movement means two things: First, we'll need data scientists to tell us what to do. Second, we'll be marketed magic boxes that aim to lead us. Either way we're outsourcing way too much intelligence and instead of becoming data savvy we'll just become visualization slaves. After all, we all look smarter with a fancy graphic to back us up. The catch is visualization isn't analysis.

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"If artificial intelligence (AI) systems can't let a business user understand it, the insight will remain the domain of data scientists or machines," said Sengupta, an Oracle and Microsoft alum. "We're just getting to the point where the market is beginning to understand how dangerous believing in dashboards and magical boxes."

In other words, we can't let the data scientists and engineers run away with big data or we'll have information haves and have nots.

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