Beyond the Wrapper: Making AI Work for Data Teams

About this episode

The episode discusses the development and challenges of the AI tool Celeste for data teams.

In this episode of The Dashboard Effect, Brick and Landon give an update on Celeste, the internal AI tool Blue Margin has been building to help data teams query, explore, and visualize client data. They dive into what’s worked, what hasn’t, and the fork in the road between making Celeste valuable for engineers versus business users. Along the way, they share lessons about AI adoption, the limits of “wrappers,” and where emerging tools like Azure’s AI Foundry could take things next. If you’v...

People in this episode

Hosts: Brick Thompson, Landon Ochs

Topics covered

• AI tools
• data teams
• data visualization
• AI adoption
• business users
• engineering

Keywords

• AI
• data teams
• Celeste
• data visualization
• Azure AI Foundry
• AI adoption
• business users

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blue Margin

Products: Celeste, Azure’s AI Foundry

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