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A glimpse into Microsoft's Data and AI strategy Apr 09, 2019

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Recorded at Microsoft’s office in Bellevue WA, Brett and Kyle sit down with John "JG” Chirapurath, General Manager for Azure Data & Artificial Intelligence for Microsoft. JG talks about how Microsoft is helping their customers successfully ingest, manage and analyze their data as well as provide a path towards AI. JG and the team go into Microsoft's portfolio of offerings to help customers turn insights into actions that move the needle for the business. Brett and Kyle were amazed with all the innovative things Microsoft is doing in the world of AI and Data Analytics. They are definitely not your mama's Microsoft. DataWorks Summit is taking place in Washington DC May 20th-23rd. If you are interested in attending this exciting event, use Promo Code BDBEARD19 for 15% off your conference pass. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Validating Data Scientists with QuantHub Apr 02, 2019

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Data Scientists are in high demand and with such awesome money being thrown their way, everyone claims to be one these days. So how do you know you're hiring someone that actually has the data science skills needed on your team? Well that's where this week's guests from QuantHub save the day! Join your host, Cory Minton, as he talks with Matt Cowell, CEO, and Nathan Black, Cheif Data Scientist, in Birmingham about how the QuantHub platforms saves time in technical vetting of data science talent and helps make sure you hire the right talent every time! For 20% off your pass to Dataworks Summit in Washington, DC May 20-23, use promo code "BDBeard19" at check out. Want a free pass? Mention @BigDataBeard on Twitter or Linkedin with a link to one of our shows betwen April 2nd and April 16th and you will be entered for a chance at a free pass. We will announce the winner on April 23rd. Did you know we are on Spotify? Tune in to The Big Data Beard! Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Making On-Call "Suck Less" with Splunk & VictorOps Mar 26, 2019

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Recorded at the Splunk’s Sales Kick-off in Las Vegas, Cory Minton and Brett Roberts sit down with Big Data Beard podcast Alumnus, Bill Emmett and first time guest Dylan Klausing to dive into one of Splunk recent acquisitions, VictorOps. Last year, Splunk acquired VictorOps, an incident management platform that is purpose built to help teams “Make On-Call Suck Less”. Bill and Dylan provide an insight into how VictorOps is a powerful extension to the powerful and popular Splunk platform. While Splunk has been historically great in surfacing alerts, VictorOps takes it a step further and provides a better ability to get that alert in the hands of someone who can drive it to the solution. Cory and Brett dive into the software and explore what’s next with the platform and its integration with Splunk.

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Elevate: A Women in Data Science Panel Mar 19, 2019

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In this special episode of the Big Data Beard podcast, we partnered with the team from Data Science Salon to bring you a women in data science panel. Panelists for this episode include Maureen Johnson, a data ethicist at Data for Democracy, Eunice Chendjou founder and CEO of DataGig (we recorded a podcast episodewith her), Hillary Green Lerman, a Sr. Curriculum Lead at DataCamp and moderated by Randi Ludwig, a data scientist at Dell EMC. Randi and the panelists explore some of the extremely important issues and challenges for women working in tech and talk about some ways they have overcome certain challenges in their careers. The panel also talks about the importance of inclusion and having more women and minorities join the technology and data science workforce. The Data Science Salon in Austin was an amazing event. If you were not able to attend, don’t worry there will be another Data Science Salon coming in New York Cityon June 13th, 2019. Use promo code BDBEARD19 for 15% off you conference pass. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Data science for everyone with DataGig's data scientist market place Mar 12, 2019

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Recorded at the Data Science Salon in Austin, Cory Minton and Brett Roberts sit down with Eunice Chendjou, CEO and founder of DataGig, a startup that aims to help organizations of all sizes gain access to data scientists for help in building out their data analytics and AI use cases. DataGig was founded to help address two critical gaps: organizations needing access to data scientists for some projects but can’t afford to hire in-house and newly minted data scientists unable to find employment due to lack of real world experience. Eunice explains that DataGig acts as the match maker between the companies and data scientists or data engineers to help place the right expertise for the right use case. Cory and Brett also ask Eunice about some of the trends she is seeing in the world of AI and analytics. Did you know we are on Spotify? Tune in to The Big Data Beard! Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

NumFocus: The team behind Jupyter and much more! Mar 05, 2019

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NumFocus: The team behind Jupyter and much more!

AI under your desk Feb 26, 2019

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Recorded at the Data Science Salon in Austin, Cory Minton and Brett Roberts sit down with David Patschke, Director of AI Strategy for Dell Technologies Precision Workstations organization to hear about what Dell is doing to enable customers to be successful with AI. Reflecting on his previous experiences as a data scientist, David talks about the need for resource intensive machines to limit system constraints to give more time back to the data scientist. Cory, Brett and David explore some of the hardware trends that are impacting AI today and what advances are needed for the future growth of AI in the enterprise. Did you know we are on Spotify? Tune in to The Big Data Beard! Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Data engineering simplified with Infoworks' agile and automated platform Feb 19, 2019

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Data engineering and data ops are some of the most challenging and resource intensive parts of the data science process. Cory Minton and Brett Roberts sit down with Infoworks CTO and co-founder, Amar Arsikere and VP of Product, Ramesh Menon to hear about how their agile Data Engineering Platform helps automate data workflows allowing organizations to accelerate the number of use cases they can get into production while using fewer resources. The team explores the challenges organizations are having around data lakes, data sourcing strategies and scalable data pipelines and hear how the Infoworks’ platform helps solve these challenges. Amar and Ramesh also provide real world examples of how customers have turned to Infoworks to help successfully solve these challenges.

Afraid of AI? Feb 12, 2019

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Should we really fear AI? What's really happening with Artificial Intelligence today? Why are enterprises struggling to adopt AI in meaningful ways? In this special episode of the Big Data Beard podcast, we share many previously unheard conversations with five of podcast guests about their view of AI today and find out if the fear we hear so often about AI is well founded.

Our guests for this show include:

Vikram Mahidar, AI Practice leader at Genpact Consulting
David Fearne, AI Practice leader at Arrow Electronics
Dr. Stephen Thomas, Director of the Masters in AI program at Queens University
Dan Jeavons, Director of Data Science and AI at Shell Corporation
Doug Merritt, CEO of Splunk

Don't be afraid of AI. Be prepared.

There's no better way to prepare for AI everywhere than to attend O'reilly Media's Artificial Intelligence Conference happening in NYC April 15 - 18.We are running a contest for a free pass. For a chance to win, just follow us on Instagram by March 1st 2019, when we will be picking a winner. You can also save 20% on your conference pass by using code PCBEARD at checkout!

Music from this episode is byAndrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Technology and Security with CISO, Mike Watson Jan 29, 2019

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Thomas Henson and Erin K. Banks spoke with Mike Watson, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Commonwealth of Virginia. His agency ( Virginia Information Technology Agency ) has a two fold mission in Virginia, they do centralized technology providing infrastructure services for 67 lines of businesses including hospitals, museums, businesses, and public safety. They are also responsible for setting governance rules for how the Commonwealth is supposed to operate in a secure fashion. They also have a data centric approach. They look to create controls and monitor all transactions around the data that the agencies are using and sending place to place.

His job is to care mostly about the data. Computers are not worth anything, if they don’t have good data on them. They pay very close attention to the data that is out there and how to secure it. This is important because the Commonwealth is looking share information between agencies, while protecting the privacy of their citizens. They hired a Chief Data Officer to help with this and we talk about the projects that they are working on. We talk about the future of technology, combining security, privacy, with technology, and how they are dealing with it in the public sector

Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

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