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Multimodal Data and Processing. Afraid to ask?

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Daniel Beach
Feb 16, 2026
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I was chatting with the GOAT of Data Engineering recently, and also reading a recent blog post by R. Tyler Croy on multimodal data, which got me thinking a lot about the future of the Lake House as we know it today. A few things can be true at the same time …

- Lake House architecture is exceptional for tabular data
- Multimodal data has existed for a long time
- The AI arms race has accelerated the need for multimodal data
- The Lake House needs to meet multimodal needs
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