AI Research

Success Story: Cost-effective AI models answer data analytics, business intelligence and data science questions

March 23, 2026By steve@plexgraf.com

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See the results of a 2-year research project to use AI inference and NLP interfaces to answer complex data analytics and data science queries.

Here's a walkthrough video of my deep dive into Agentic Python Pipelines that allow AI to answer complex queries by writing SQL and Python at query time. For this to work AI is given a code sandbox and guard-railed access to business and science datasets. Learn more here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P_bsMW7j10

Does this approach solve all problems with using AI in structured data applications? Not quite. You do need a halfway-decent schema and naming system. I.e., the AI models get confused about bad naming and poor semantics just like humans !

When building AI apps, coding is less and less the important part. Plan, Spec, (Code) Test, Document!

When developing with AI, it's what you do before and after coding that really matters... And how you manage LLM context space.

The epic (sad) story of why businesses and software products fail so often

When it comes to viable software (and hardware) product design, most people in business don't understand 'the problem' , let alone the 'solution space'

From Citizens (a data center RFP)For Citizens (a green campus)

Our mission is to give communities a fair deal when data centers come to town and become a permanent aspect of the local landscape.

GreenPlex is a green living, playing, working campus built to answer the needs of the Citizens, a campus the community specifies. Organizationally, GreenPlex is comprised of formal partnerships between universities, communities, facilities developers, virtual energy providers, collaboration engineers and AI experts.

Let’s collaborate! Please get in touch:

jmay@greenplex.aiJohn May · 703-624-2719

The question isn’t whether communities should say yes or no to data centers. The question is why wait for data center developers to tell us what we’re getting.

The GreenPlex campus seen across the lake — a maker space and lab, a controlled-environment produce farm, green data centers on the ridge, and a community and business center