Big Data Beard

“Ink or pixels, journalism doesn’t change.” The team sits down with Greg Doufas, CTO of The Globe and Mail, the national Canadian newspaper and a 170 year old media company, to explore how data analytics is being used to enhance customer experiences, drive engagement and fuel growth. Erin K. Banks & Cory Minton dive into the pages of this brilliant company’s history and understand how The Globe and Mail is using analytics to write their future by retaining and capturing new subscribers through their digital transformation. Strata Data London is right around the corner and as with all Strata Data and AI conferences, use promo code PCBEARD. to get 20% off conference passes! Full show notes can be found at http://bit.ly/BDB_EP27. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle.

What does Tim Hortons, Justin Bieberand the Calgary Flames have in common? Brett Roberts and Erin K. Banks explored just this with Deniece Kennedy, Senior Director of Business Intelligence and Special Projects and Ziad Mehio,

Wrapping up Strata Data San Jose conference by talking about driving human progress with data and analytics. Cory & Rob sit down with Wei Lin and Mauro Damo, two data scientists from Dell EMC who have been working on fighting bladder cancer using machi...

Live from Strata Data San Jose, the team dives into the world of batch and stream processing with guests Fabian from Data Artisans and Flavio from Dell EMC. Our guests detail an open source streaming data stack consisting of Pravega (stream storage) an...

Live from Strata Data San Jose, the team sits down with CTO and Founder of Cloudera, Amr Awadallah. Amr dives into some of the cool Cloudera announcements from the conferences ranging from cloud to machine learning.

Anthony Dina, Director of Data Analytics Solutions at Dell EMC, recently release a blog describing the ways in which tasting whiskey is like data analytics. Clearly this required a deeper conversation, and perhaps a bit of sampling. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP22

In Episode 21 of the Big Data Beard podcast, the team ditched the desks, grabbed our skis and jackets and headed out to Squaw Valley & Alpine Meadows to ski and learn about how big data is impacting the ski industry.

Cory Minton & Thomas Henson discuss software as infrsturcture with Tom Lyons and SK Vinod from DriveScale. Tom Lyon is Co-founder and Chief Scientist at DriveScale. Tom had a hand in the creation of iconic products and technologies like UCS,

In this episode, Cory Minton, Brett Roberts & Kyle Prins chat machine learning and deep learning with Keith Manthey. Keith is the Global CTO, Unstructured Data Solutions at Dell EMC. We'll about the differences in machine learning and deep learning, architectural tenets of deep learning. and different ML and DL libraries. We also chat about some great customer use cases for these new technologies, such as building movie trailers using artificial intelligence. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP19

Cory Minton and Brett Roberts talk with Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks and they learn why Hadoop is absolutely not dead. Scott shares his top trends in Big Data that shaped 2017, what a modern data architecture means in 2018,

The Speaking in Tech team join Cory Minton, Kyle Prins & Rob Hout to kick off the year by giving their 2018 technology predictions. Nothing is off limits as the team discusses what 2018 has in store for AI, Machine Learning, Cloud, Containers and more. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_SiT

Cory Minton, Kyle Prins,Thomas Henson talk with Dr. Greg Michaelson, VP at Data Robot about all things machine learning. Machine learning was one of the top trends in 2017 and 2018 looks to be no different but with the shortage of data scientists org...

Special guest Alan Gates from Hortonworks helps us explore where the Hadoop community is headed in 2018 and what's new with Apache Hive. We also take time to dive into Alan's background at working with Hadoop, Hive, and Pig in the early days at Yahoo. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_AGH

Erin Banks, Brett Roberts, and Rob Hout talk with special guest Carey James, VP of Alliances at BlueTalon about all things data security. Whether it is companies using the data for good or bad, we discuss the ethical implications of data and it’s use in analytics. We will also review how countries are dealing with data privacy issues through regulations like the EU, implementing General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Does it really have an impact, can we change the regulation down the road as innovation evolves or will it hinder innovation in the long run? Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP14

Thomas and Cory talk with special guest Bill Schmarzo, the “Dean of Big Data” about the organization challenges and opportunities in monetizing data assets. Bill is the author of Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business and Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science, is responsible for setting strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings for Dell EMC’s Big Data Practice. As a CTO within Dell EMC’s 2,000+ person consulting organization, he works with organizations to identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He’s written white papers, is an avid blogger and is a frequent speaker on the use of Big Data and data science to power an organization’s key business initiatives. He is a University of San Francisco School of Management (SOM) Executive Fellow where he teaches the “Big Data MBA” course. Bill also just completed a research paper on “Determining The Economic Value of Data”. Onalytica recently ranked Bill as #4 Big Data Influencer worldwide. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP13

Brett Roberts and Kyle Prins talk with special guest and Big Data Beard member Erin "Big Data" Banks about her passions with data analytics and how data analytics are impacting all aspects of life, from the sports we watch to the food we eat. In this special episode, Erin is literally putting her money where her mouth is and for every curse word that she says on the podcast, she is donating $10 to the Road Recovery Organization. Show Notes: http://www.bigdatabeard.com/bdb-podcast-ep-12/

Cory Minton, Rob Hout and Thomas Henson talk with special guest Anant Chintamaneni about BlueData's unique approach to making Big Data technologies easier to deploy, manage and orchestrate using containers and some other really cool innovations. Tune in to see what crumbs of knowledge got trapped in their beards. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP11

Cory Minton, Rob Hout and Thomas Henson talk with special guest Anant Chintamaneni about BlueData's unique approach to making Big Data technologies easier to deploy, manage and orchestrate using containers and some other really cool innovations.

Cory Minton, Rob Hout, and Alex Rodriguez talk with special guest Simeon Yep about Splunk .Conf culture, benefits of the Dell EMC partnership, and our collective passion for racing. Tune in to see what insights they found. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_CAR

Cory Minton, Rob Hout, & Kyle Prins chat with special guest Andre Putsch about a special project he and his company, Otto, did around visualizing Splunk data in virtual reality. The team then explores virtual reality use cases with Splunk and the art...

Cory Minton, Rob Hout, & Keith Quebodeaux chat with special guest David Fearne about using fitness trackers to find out how happy people are. From London to .Conf, David has been measuring happiness across the world for years. Listen to stories around election analytics, burning the haystack for your data, ETL vs ELT, and more. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_HPY

Live from the expo floor at Splunk’s user conference, .Conf 2017. Hosts Cory Minton and Brett Roberts chat with Splunk’s Kelly Kitagawa and Keegan Dubbs about their quest to find love, but to use Splunk to make the process of modern dating more successful with better data analytics driven decisions. Join a delightful conversation with two incredibly bright women in tech that marry big data goodness with the real world use cases powered by Splunk while simultaneously making Brett wish he actually knew how to Splunk something…mostly his love life. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_LOVE

Live from the expo floor at Splunk’s user conference, .Conf 2017. Hosts Cory Minton, Rob Hout and Kyle Prins chat with Splunk’s Jon Rooney about the history of IT monitoring and how the innovations around IT Service Intelligence using Machine Learn...

From the expo floor at Splunk’s user conference, .Conf 2017. Hosts Cory Minton, Kyle Prins, & Rob Hout chat with Bill Emmett, Splunk’s Director of Solutions Marketing, about the announcements from day one of .Conf 2017, enhancements in Splunk 7.0, the end of meh-trics. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP5

Cory Minton, Thomas Henson, Kyle Prins and Rob Hout discuss IoT fails, big data certifications, and other hot topics from the Big Data community. Our guest for this episode is none other than THE Rob Hout. Show notes can be found at https://bigdatabeard.com/bdb-podcast-ep-4

Cory Minton, Thomas Henson and Kyle Prins discuss Ransomware, Splunk and other hot topics from the Big Data community. Our guest for this episode is none other than Kyle Prins. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP3

Cory Minton, Kyle Prins, and Thomas Henson discuss Big Data tools, Smart Homes, start-ups and other hot topics from the Big Data community. Our guest for this episode is none other than Thomas Henson. Remember, this is our second episode... comments on how to make this better are welcomed. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP2

- Thomas Henson, Brett Roberts, and Cory Minton discuss hot topics from the Big Data community. Our guest for this episode is none other than Cory Minton. Remember, this is our first episode....comments on how to make this better are welcomed. -