Data Driven

In this DataPoint, Frank reflects on how useful DataBricks is in a data warehousing environment. That and the importance of coffee after a red eye flight.

This week Frank is on vacation with his family in the North Carolina mountains where gem mining is a popular activity. Ever the data geek, he notes the similarities between data mining and gem mining.

In this episode, Frank and Andy answer some your questions! Show notes coming soon!

In this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy catch up with Brent Ozar and have a laugh or two at Silverlight's expense, NoLock, and playing country music backwards. Links Sponsor: Audible.com - Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes Season 3 opened with John Lee Dumas aka JLD (01:30) Data Soup Summit (02:00) Introducting Brent Ozar (05:00) "Get out there!" - Brent Ozar (08:30) Data work pays better. (13:45) Brent started in hotel management (15:00) Data is the new oil... but we should avoid spills. (16:15) "The job is getting harder, not easier." (18:30) The "Aha" moment and ER analogy. (21:30) Brent's quote voice... (22:00) Brent's "Bad News Doctor" voice (22:45) Andy throws NoLock under the bus. Brent helps. (23:12) On shrinking databases... (24:30) NoSQL (26:30) Name-drop: Buck Woody (28:30) Name-drop: Scott Hanselman (29:00) Ballerina Princess (32:20) Brent likes to travel. (34:45) "No one comes to me for a good time..." (36:20) The data is the choke-point. Again. (38:30) On Google Glass (39:45) On Past Brent... (41:00) Name-drop: Brian Kelley (41:30) "We're published. It's a license to spell." (42:10) Book Reference: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (43:45) Social Radar (44:45) Regarding iTunes... (45:00) Brent is into restaurants. (46:45) Andy's Brent Story... (48:15) Brent is here to help. (50:00) On paying it forward... (51:30) "This looks like an engineer built it" is not a compliment. (52:30) Learn more about Brent at BrentOzar.com (53:00) A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine (54:30) Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage (@donttrythis)(55:30) Titan by Ron Chernow (58:40) Regarding Midgely... (1:00:00) Brent's Epic Life Quest (1:02:00) WordPress Plugins I Use to Sell Training Classes (1:02:30) Frank's New Year starts 1 Nov. (1:03:15) Sometimes life resembles a country music song... (1:04:00) Frank wrote a book about Silverlight. (1:05:15) One day there will be a country song about a self-driving pickup leaving... (1:06:10)   Transcript (Experimental) The following transcript was automatically generated with AI. Hello and Welcome to data driven the podcast where we explore the emerging field of data science. We bring the best minds in data software engineering machine learning and artificial intelligence now hear your hosts Frank Lavigna and Andy Leonard. Hello and welcome back to data driven the podcasts are we explore the emerging field. Some data science machine learning and artificial intelligence. If you'd like to think of data as the new oil and you can consider us Car Talk because we focus on where the rubber meets Virtual Road and with me as ever on this epic road trip down the information superhighway. Can I fill us up with more data cliches Andy is emulated? How you doing? I'm doing great Frank? How are you? I'm doing alright? I'm doing alright so you had a birthday last week? Thank you yes? Yes, I made another trip around the sun. Yeah, yeah, you know statistics show that the more birthdays. You have the longer you live that you know, I wonder. Though if it's one of those false. Corollary's just just not sure is that false positive. I don't know. I think it's a useless correlation. I was looking for how describing the same thing just in different terms. That's true. We've sound smart when we throw these words around. I need all the help I can get sound in smaller.

In the post-Amazon economy, all brick and mortar retailers are struggling. Some have outright failed and others on the brink. However, there are a few outliers that refuse to go down without a fight and are actually innovating. In this DataPoint, Frank notes one that has actually turned physical location to its advantage by helping Amazon process returns!

As we begin season 3 of Data Driven, Frank and Andy wanted to bring it back to the guy who inspired the entire show: John Lee Dumas. Although not yet quite a household name, JLD as he's known to his fans, is the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award winning podcast where he interviews inspiring Entrepreneurs who are truly ON FIRE. With over 2000 episodes, 1 million + listens a month, and seven-figures of annual revenue, JLD is just getting started. Not to stop there, the Data Driven dynamic duo want to bring the heat and turn up the tech intensity levels to 11 with a virtual summit that covers everything data from soup to nuts. To that end, we are launching the Data Soup Virtual Summit. And are souper excited to give Data Driven Listeners a Discount (70% until Aug 5, 2019; 50% afterwards). Back in the day - Richmond .Net Users Group, now Azure Richmond, and Richmond SQL Server Users Group. Rick and Morty Tech Intensity John Lee Dumas! Entrepreneurs on Fire Age of the Entrepreneur movie Think and Grow Rich movie Pat Flynn - Smart Passive Income Love this: "What gets measured gets managed." - Peter Drucker EOFire.com "Data is either part of your business plan or part of your going-out-of-business plan." - Frank Announcing Data Soup Summit - a new virtual summit! Featuring: Reza Rad, author of Pro Power BI Architecture Nick Harris Cathrine Wilhelmsen, co-author of The Biml Book Tim McAliley Dr. Leila Etaati, author of Machine Learning with Microsoft Technologies Register before 15 Aug 2019 and save! 365 Data Science - our first Data Soup Summit sponsor! We are honored to announce 365 Data Science is sponsoring Data Soup Summit! The Dunkin Donuts *DataPoint* raw footage from the DataDriven Facebook page.   Transcript (Experimental) The following transcript was automatically generated with AI. Hello and Welcome to data driven the podcast where we explore the emerging field of data science. We bring the best minds in data software engineering machine learning and artificial intelligence now hear your hosts Frank Lavigna and Andy Leonard. Hello and welcome back to data driven the podcast where we explore the emerging fields of data science machine learning and artificial intelligence is you like to think of data as the new oil then you can consider a scar talk 'cause. We focus on where the rubber meets the road and on with me on this epic road trip. Down the information superhighway as he has been from day one. Season one episode, one episode zero actually we started zero. I take your room with me is Andy Leonard, whose has gone from data engineer to chief data engineer to you had another really data philosopher that's what it was yeah, started with data philosopher back in today right which is very cool by the way well. I appreciate that Frank it kind of went with the beard and back then. I had the unbreaded version of the beard. And so you know, I still call myself so go ahead go ahead. Now, because I still call myself a date a philosopher at DILM Suite, which is kind of like an offshoot of Edna. They consulting company. I kept the title enterprise DNA for those not in the know not Edna like Dame Edna thanks. Yes, not the insurance company but enterprise data and analytics and. Yeah, we are I work there Frank works at Microsoft. Yep, which wasn't the case during the whole podcast journey actually.

In this DataPoint, Andy teases some details on Data Driven Season 3, which is set to launch Tuesday, July 23rd along with another special project that we've been working on.

Recently, Amazon announced that it will spend $700 Million (USD) to retrain its employees. Why are they doing this? Simple: automation. They know that a displaced workforce would be bad political mojo at a time when the giant is facing increasing calls for regulation, even potential anti-trust action. Anti-trust laws in the US were made largely in reaction to the Standard Oil Company and its founder John D. Rockefeller. In this DataPoint, Frank notes how Jeff Bezos just may be the Rockefeller of our day.

Frank and Andy are in the same place for the first time in a while, so they meet up to plan season 3 of Data Driven.

I'm at an OpenHack today learning about Knowledge Mining.

In this Data Point, Frank marks the two year anniversary of Data Driven's launch and talks about the future.

In this Data Point, Andy ponders the ethics of lying to the machines, how that adds bias, and what the consequences may be.

In this Data Point, Andy discusses our recent interview with Anders Schneiderman, What's it going to take for neglected communities to come back to life? How are workers going to be retooled? What's the practical application here?

In this episode, Frank and Andy talk to Anders Schneiderman (LinkedIn), founder of Makers All and author of a report titled How to Help Communities Transform Emerging Tech So They Can Shape Their Destinies.

Quick DataPoint today to make you aware that Kent Bradshaw - a data scientist who works with me at Enterprise Data & Analytics - and I are delivering a free webinar titled Loading Medical Data with SSIS Wednesday 17 Apr 2019 at 12:00 PM EDT.