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With over 2.5 billion card holders making 74 billion transactions a year, MasterCard has a huge responsibility to ensure not only that these transactions are processed in a timely manner but that each and every transaction is safe and secure. From Dell Technologies World, Cory and Brett sit down with Nick Curcuru, VP of Data Analytics and Cyber Security to get an insight into this massive challenge and understand how MasterCard is solving this problem. From being an early adopter in Hadoop to embracing AI technologies, MasterCard is not a credit card company, they are a technology company and Nick provides an overview of the technologies and partnerships MasterCard is leveraging to not only focus on today but to help them get to where they need to be in 5 years and beyond. Check out how MasterCard is dealing with the massive scale of their business while also ensuring they are staying 3 steps ahead of fraudulent activity. The 2019 Disney Data & Analytics Conference is taking place at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando Floria on August 20th and 21st. DDAC always has an all-star line up of speakers and this year Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III the “Miracle on the Hudson” Hero Pilot & Shane Battier Vice President, Analytics and Basketball Development for the Miami Heat will be the keynote speakers. You can use promo code “BigDataBeard-2019” to receive 20% off your conference pass. Click here to register with the promo code. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Pivotal’s mission is to transform the way in which people and companies build software. From Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Greenplum, this company has been at the forefront of innovation and open source collaboration. Cory and Brett get to sit down with one of the industries’ great technologist Chad Sakac, who leads Pivotal’s strategy and development around Kubernetes. Kubernetes has been seen as a deployment methodology of the future for all workloads including Big Data and AI. Cory and Brett pick Chad’s brain about how Pivotal is incorporating Kubernetes into their products through Pivotal Container Services and how this can help drive Data Analytics and AI workloads into the future. Chad also provides unique insights into the history of Kubernetes and containers and provides parallels to the rise of virtualization. The team then gets a look into Pivotal’s strategy and portfolio for Data Analytics today and in the future. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

In this special episode of the Big Data Beard Podcast, Cory and Brett get to sit down with Josh Klahr, Splunk’s VP of Product Management, Splunk Enterprise and Core Products to breakdown Splunk’s announcement today regarding Splunk Enterprise 7.3 and Machine Learning Tool Kit (MLTK) 4.3. Josh provides new details and insight into the announcements surrounding Workload Management, Metrics, SmartStore and the new support for Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and MLTK’s Smart Assist. Cory and Brett also dig into Splunk’s announcements from April around Splunk’s Connected Experiences and Business Flow. Check out this special podcast to get the scoop on all the new features Splunk has added!

Todd Dube, Architect for Data Science at Carmax joined the Big Data Beard’s Cory at Spark+AI Summit and shared how his team is changing the experience of buying a car in the best way possible. Sure, we know the old process, but this digital native company is driving better experiences for customers in the modern world on any platform to acquire these old school assets in a modern way! We talk about the value of starting with a use case in mind and iterating towards a real deliverable that makes a real difference. Carmax has a super innovative and welcoming culture that is looking for more talented folks to help them evolve in the modern market. Are you up to the challenge to join them?!? Manager Data Science and Machine Learning: https://carmax.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Corporate---Richmond/Technology-Manager---Data-Science-and-Machine-Learning_JR-003622 Sr Data Engineer: https://carmax.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Corporate---Richmond/Sr-Software-Developer---Data-Engineering_JR-006291 Data Engineer: https://carmax.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Corporate---Richmond/Software-Developer-II---Data-Engineering_JR-006292 This podcast was recorded at Spark+AI Summit in San Francisco, California in April 2019. Check out Todd’s presentation from the conference here. Conference discount opportunity for our listeners…check out the ways our partnerships can save you money on the best big data and AI tech conferences around the world: Data Science Salon in NYC June 13. Use promo code BDBEARD19 for 15% off your pass! http://bit.ly/BDB_YTC 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!

Splice Machine announced the company’s new data science workbench, ML Manager, at the Spark + AI Summit 2019 being held April 23-25, in San Francisco, CA. Cory caught up with Splice Machine's founder and CEO, Monte Zweben, about how Splice Machine bridges the gap between operational databases and the tools used by data scientists to power modern AI. Splice Machine’s new Data Science Workbench, called ML Manager, empowers data science teams to maximize the performance of their machine learning models by removing the latency associated with building complex data pipelines, performing cumbersome transformations and training models on updated data. At the Spark+AI Summit, Monte presented, “Without Operational AI, Your ML Model is Stale” which will discussed how companies can integrate OLTP, OLAP and ML capabilities in a unified platform to make intelligent decisions in real time using data at scale. The resulting SQL platform reduces data movement and therefore enables training on real-time data and testing on real-time data leading to better decision-making. This podcast was recorded at Spark+AI Summit in San Francisco, California in April 2019. Full show notes and links are available here - https://bit.ly/BDB_EP73 Conference discount opportunity for our listeners…check out the ways our partnerships can save you money on the best big data and AI tech conferences around the world: Domino Data Labs’ REV2 Conference in NYC May 23-24. Use promo code BDB_REV100 to save $100 on your pass! Data Science Salon in NYC June 13. Use promo code BDBEARD19 for 15% off your pass! http://bit.ly/BDB_YTC 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!

Spark is one of the most popular platforms for Data Science and AI development today and the team at DataBricks is driving massive innovation in this community, both open-source and commercially. Cory sat down with Reynold Xin, Co-Founder and Chief Architect, and Michael Armburst, Principal Architect, at DataBricks to understand the history of Spark development and uncover the massive developments in the platform available now and in the near future making Spark more accessible and easier for Data Scientists and Engineers alike. This podcast was recorded at Spark+AI Summit in San Francisco, California in April 2019. Links DataBricks Reynold on LinkedIn & Twitter Michael on LinkedIn & Twitter DeltaLake and Announcement Apple Presentation on DeltaLake MLFlow Videos from Spark+AI Summit 2019 Reynold Keynote Recording on Koalas Michael Keynote Recording on Delta Did you know we are on Spotify? Tune in to The Big Data Beard! Don’t forget that we are going to Domino Data Labs’ upcoming REV2 Conference in NYC May 23-24. Visit the REV Conference Website and use promo code BDB_REV100 to save $100 on your pass! Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

In the world of platforms for Big Data, there is a lot of confusion and conflict. But one one of the early entrants to the market is still one of the most popular. Brett and Cory sit down with Jack Norris of MapR Technologies to learn how they’ve evolved over the years to become a truly unique data platform delivering a first class layer of “DataWare” in the enterprise stack. Learn from an industry veteran who understands the history of platforms and has an educated view on platforms of the future…and trust us, Jack is a super cool, interesting dude to hang out with for a chat! This podcast was recorded at the fantastic O’Reilly Media AI Conference in NYC. In addition to interviewing great leaders in the AI space like Jack, the Big Data Beard team got to attend a variety of sessions and get a sense of the bleeding edge of AI. If you missed this conference, don’t worry there are three more left this year. Click here to get the schedule and promo codes to save you 15% off your conference pass. Links FREE Training from MapR - this is huge that they offer this for free Machine Learning Logistics Book - authored by MapR folks MapR Disaggregated Storage Layer MapR Platform KubeFlow Mapr Event Insatek - Australian Explosion as a Service The Couple Next Door - book recommendation from Jack Americans - Jack’s binge-worthy show Martin Miller’s Gin 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!

A lot of the Artificial Intelligence conversations that are being had today revolve around how AI is influencing government and business but in this week’s episode, Brett and Cory sit down with Anna Bethkefrom Intelto talk about how her team is driving AI for social good initiative around the globe. From anti-poaching to counting whales, Anna, the Head of AI for social good within the Intel AI products group, outlines some of the really cool and impactful projects her team is driving to better society. Brett and Cory also get Anna’s opinion on the ethics of AI, the state of AI bias and some of the top trends she is seeing. This podcast was recorded at the fantastic O’Reilly Media AI Conferencein NYC. In addition to interviewing great leaders in the AI space link Anna, the Big Data Beard team got to attend a variety of sessions and get a sense of the bleeding edge of AI. If you missed this conference, don’t worry there are three more left this year. Click here to get the schedule and promo codes to save you 15% off your conference pass.

Brett and Cory get the low down on Domino Data Lab’s Data Science Platform with returning guest, VP of Marketing Jon Rooney and their Deputy CTO, Ozzy Johnson. We discussed what it means to truly be a platform and how to separate Domino from the pretenders. Hear how the world’s most mature, model driven businesses leverage Domino to not only collaborate and accelerate model development, but also deliver simpler deployments that scale and provide reproducibility and explainability so critical for enterprises automating with AI. Also hear how you can get a great discount to Rev2, the Domino sponsored Data Science Conference in NYC May 23-24.

Recorded at Microsoft’s office in Bellevue WA, Brett and Kyle sit down with Kyle Kotaich and Jeremiah Beisner of Deschutes Brewery. Deschutes Brewery was founded in 1988 and is the tenth largest craft brewery in the US. We'll find out how Deschutes uses data collected from the fermentation process to brew better beer as well as increase utilization from their machine learning models with Microsoft Azure AI and Cognitive Services. We'll also chat about their open source project, Brewery Pi, which helps brewers, large and small, make beer better using data. 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!

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!

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!

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. Looking to attend O’Reilly’s AI Conference in NYC on April 15th-18th? Click here and use promo code PCBEARD to save 15% off!

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!

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!

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 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.

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! Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/ Music from this episode is byAndrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

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! Link to shownotes - http://bit.ly/BDB_EP58

Cory Minton and Brett Roberts sit down with their friend from across the pond Paul Brook to talk about the book he wrote titled “Life of AI: AI today, tomorrow, and in the future and what this may mean for human kind. Paul talks about what inspired him to write a book (spoiler it was at a bar) about Artificial Intelligence and what went into creating it. Paul and the team then explore different aspects of Artificial intelligence from bias, regulation, hardware and discuss how AI will evolve from man made AI to autonomous AI in the future. Tune in to get some brilliant insights into all things AI. O’Reilly Media’s Strata Data is coming to San Francisco on March 25 - 28, 2019 and YOU have a chance to win a free pass to this fantastic conference. All you have to do is subscribe to our BrightTalk channel between now and February 1st and you are entered to win. You can also use Promo Code PCBEARD for 20% off your conference pass. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Brett Roberts and Erin K. Banks met with Anna Anisin, CEO and Jeremy Mason, Head of Marketing Operations of FormulatedBy, talking about the Data Science Salon conference. Although these conferences are focused on the data and sessions, they make sure there is time for networking, a great reception, and the best coffee in town. There are four Data Science Salon conferences in 2019. The verticals they focus on are media & entertainment and finance & technology and some of the themes at the conference are data governance, data modeling trends, impact of data quality, data strategy trends, data security, and data bias. We are a partner of the Data Science Salon and if you are interested in attending, you can save some money by using the registration code BDBEARD19

Jimmy Niggles, the founder of Beard Season, is selling his beard for $1,000,000. In the season 3 finale, Cory and Kyle sit down with Jimmy at Cafe Salina in beautiful Bronte Beach Australia. Jimmy shares with us the history of Beard Season, the importance of having your skin checked, and how beards can help save someone's life. We also discuss how Jimmy met Sir Richard Branson and speculate on the future of BeardCoin. The Big Data Beard Team has proudly become ambassadors the The Beard Season in hopes to assist Jimmy in helping to save more lives. Please consider donating or joining as an ambassador yourself. It's a wonderful cause to grow a beard and start a great conversation. We hope you have a wonderful holiday break. See you next Season! Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us! Show Notes can be found here: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP55

In Episode 54, Erin K. Banks and Brett Roberts met with Steve Touw, CTO of Immuta and he runs the product roadmap for the company which means he talks to customers a lot and he plans out the vision of the company and what they work on. Immuta, is a data management platform that was built to manage access and control of data and to help manage privacy when building machine learning models. They lean towards enabling compliance and ethical data science operations in organizations. We review the data policy snowflake concept and the pain that comes with it and how the control plane helps. We discuss security vs privacy and differential privacy as well as purpose based restrictions with regard to data management. Of course we can’t talk about data and privacy without discussing GDRP Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Join Cory and Brett as they sit down with Joe Hellerstein to explore one of the most challenging and time consuming parts of the data science process. Regardless of if you call it Data Wrangling, Cleansing or Munging anyone who has had to do this k...