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Analytical Governance: From User Intent to Governed Analytical Execution

Analytical governance is often applied after a query already exists. By then, a more important decision may already have been made implicitly: what analytical object the user intended, and whether that object is entitled to be served. This paper develops analytical governance as...

Data Has Its Own Ontology

Ontology has moved to the center of AI engineering and data architecture. Organizations increasingly encode customers, accounts, products, contracts, events, actions, and business rules as machine-readable objects and relationships. Semantic-layer architecture likewise places sha...

Data Has Its Own Ontology

Ontology has moved to the center of AI engineering and data architecture. Organizations increasingly encode customers, accounts, products, contracts, events, actions, and business rules as machine-readable objects and relationships. Semantic-layer architecture likewise places sha...

A Primer on the Theory of Data

A table is a container. Rows and columns are an arrangement within that container.SQL is a language for manipulating the arrangement. Numbers and strings are rep-resentations used to store values. All are useful, but none tells us what makes a dataobject exist, what gives it mean...

Reading Statistical Rethinking Through the Statistical Bridge

Richard McElreath's Statistical Rethinking teaches Bayesian modeling through a wider discipline of scientific reasoning. The golem metaphor limits the authority of statistical machinery. Small worlds and large worlds separate formal coherence from scientific adequacy. Generative...

Where Does Probability Live?

The frequentist-Bayesian divide is usually introduced as a dispute about the meaning of probability, the status of parameters, priors, repeated sampling, or the interpretation of intervals. Those disagreements are real, but they begin after an earlier statistical problem has alre...

The Statistical Bridge

A business asks for average revenue per active customer this quarter, with a standard error. The analyst has login events, transaction events, customer identifiers, and a familiar formula. Every arithmetic step can be correct while the analysis has not established what one custom...

The Statistical Bridge

A business asks for average revenue per active customer this quarter, with a standard error. The analyst has login events, transaction events, customer identifiers, and a familiar formula. Every arithmetic step can be correct while the analysis has not established what one custom...

The Theory of Data

A value is not yet data. The number 42 becomes data only when it is bound to something it is about: age = 42, and more completely, John's age = 42. This simple observation leads to a larger problem. Analytical systems manipulate values easily, but they often leave implicit the an...

The Theory of Data

A value is not yet data. The number 42 becomes data only when it is bound to something it is about: age = 42, and more completely, John's age = 42. This simple observation leads to a larger problem. Analytical systems manipulate values easily, but they often leave implicit the an...

Frame-QL: An Introduction

Frame-QL is a query language for declaring a governed analytical result. The requester names theanalytical objects to be returned, declares the anchor at which the result frame should exist, and statesthe conditions that shape it. The requester does not prescribe the relational o...

Frame-QL: An Introduction

Frame-QL is a query language for declaring a governed analytical result. The requester names theanalytical objects to be returned, declares the anchor at which the result frame should exist, and statesthe conditions that shape it. The requester does not prescribe the relational o...

Reading Statistical Rethinking Through the Statistical Bridge

Reading Statistical Rethinking Through the Statistical Bridge examines Richard McElreath's Statistical Rethinking through the architecture of The Statistical Bridge and Regime Has a Contract, and places that reading beside an empirically oriented tradition represented by algorith...

The Statistical Bridge: From Events to Spines, Data Work, and the Interpretation of Results

The Statistical Bridge develops a Theory-of-Data architecture for the interface between operational data and formal statistical reasoning. The central problem is not usually inside the estimator or theorem itself, but in the passage by which operational occurrences, records, iden...

Bridging theAIDivide in Drug Discovery: PracticalLessons from Capacity Strengthening in Africa

Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of drug discovery in high-income countries. However, these advances have yet to be broadly adopted by research ecosystems in many low- and middle-income countries in Africa, where understudied infectious diseases,...

The Theory of Data: A Foundational Framework for Governed Analytical Data, Lawful Transformation, and Certification

The Theory of Data develops a foundational framework for governed analytical data, lawful transformation, and certification. A datum is one typed value at one anchor point. A member is a homogeneous typed partial function binding datums over one anchor within one universe. A meas...

The Theory of Data: An Introduction — Analytical Meaning, Lawful Transformation, and Governed Results

The Theory of Data: An Introduction presents an accessible introduction to the Theory of Data for analysts, data engineers, analytics engineers, semantic-layer developers, and AI engineers. The Theory begins from a distinction that analytical systems often leave implicit: produci...

Regime Has a Contract: Intervention, Observation, and the Data Foundation of Causal Identification

The Theory of Data distinguishes event and spine universes by their point-existence laws but does not, by that distinction alone, specify how values are generated at those points. This paper introduces regime as a separate governed object: the value-generation arrangement under w...

The Theory of Data: An Introduction — Analytical Meaning, Lawful Transformation, and Governed Results

The Theory of Data: An Introduction presents an accessible introduction to the Theory of Data for analysts, data engineers, analytics engineers, semantic-layer developers, and AI engineers. The Theory begins from a distinction that analytical systems often leave implicit: produci...

The ADFA (Analog-Digital Fusion Art) Protocol (v4): Issuing the Artist's Passport in the Age of Synthetic Art: The #ADFA_on_Canvas Caption Movement

■ Abstract & Techno-Aesthetic Framework OverviewThe ADFA (Analog-Digital Fusion Art) Protocol (v4) is an open-source, evolutionary techno-aesthetic framework formulated to practically defend the authenticity and creative sovereignty of human creators against the deluge of generat...