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Like Star Trek in the 90s we are creating a spin off series.The new show is called Impact Quantum and will focus on quantum computing.Additionally, Frank and Andy explain how they keep creating content despite having full schedules.

In this episode, Frank and Andy talk about why Data Engineering may be the next hot career, how Microsoft's culture has changed, and Frank's solar power experiments.Transcription & show notes coming soon.

In this episode Frank and Andy talk about the "three Rs" of the 2020s: robots, retail, and reskilling.Original live stream link:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/frank-lavigne_data-driven-live-robots-data-and-retail-activity-6687056930667548672-tVKqTranscriptioncoming soon

In this Data Point, Frank sees a robot patrolling the aisles of his local Walmart and gets excited.The robot scans shelves and helps identify what needs to be restocked and what's out of place.https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-adding-robots-help-stock-shelves-to-650-more-stores-2020-1

In this episode, Frank and Andy share their thoughts on three years of podcasting, stoicism, and climbing Mount Royal.Show NotesThis is the first show that we recorded via live stream. 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In this episode, Frank and Andy talk with the legendary Bob Ward.Links Sponsor: Audible.com - Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial!Notable QuotesOn playing the "plague or pollen" game. (02:30) Regarding sportsball... (05:30) Virtual is the new norm. (06:30) Bob and Azure (07:30) Frank caught Bob in person at Microsoft Ready (08:15) On sharing code...(9:30) Bob on SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters (11:00) ... and PolyBase (12:30) "Keep the data where it lives, access it through the language you're familiar with." - Bob on PolyBase (13:48) Regarding Synapse (14:48) ...even for AS/400... (18:20) PolyBase as an incremental migration strategy... (19:30) COBOL, and more COBOL, and Y2K (20:30) "Buck Woody works with me..." - Bob Ward (21:00) An aside about NFL Football teams and rivalries. (23:00) We all miss baseball. (23:50) "Did you find data or did data find you?" (25:00) How Bob was recruited by Microsoft 26 years ago (26:45) Anna Hoffman... (28:15) Bob's Book: SQL Server 2019 Revealed (31:00) "So this Bob Ward guy... he's kinda a big deal..." - Frank (32:45) "I have people like my wife to keep me humble." - Bob (34:00) "There's always somebody smarter..." - Bob (34:45) "The Silverlight apocalypse..." (35:30) "When I'm not working, I enjoy ____." (36:30) Some Good News (37:30) A Quiet Place (38:15) "I think the coolest thing in technology today is ____." (38:45) Bob started at Microsoft in 1993. (40:15) "There's no way somebody is going to put a SQL Server in the cloud." (42:00) FranksWorld.com (42:40) On remote training (44:00) "I look forward to the day when I can technology to ____." (45:30) "IoT-ness" - Bob, circa 2020 (46:40) "Share something different about myself." (48:00) "We're all screwing up!" (49:30) Grace is Greater, by Kyle Idleman (50:20) Bob on LinkedIn (51:30) aka.ms/bobwardms (51:45) aka.ms/sqlworkshops (52:30) Tom Clancy series (53:00) Sherlock Holmes series (54:00) Sherlock - BBC (54:45) "John Krasinski is a great Jack Ryan." - Bob (58:00)Transcript (AI Generated)Hello and welcome to data driven,thepodcast where we explore the emergingfield of data science. We bring the best mindsin data, software, engineering, machine learning and artificial intelligence.Now hear your hosts Frank Lavignaand Andy Leonard. Hello and welcome back to data driven.The podcast or we explore the emerging fields of datascience,machine learning and artificial intelligence.If you like to think of data as the newoil,then you can consider as well like Car Talk andwith me on his epic road trip down.The information superhighway is Andy Leonard.Although. I think we are now currently in lock downso that road ship and has been postponed.It has and wow what a you knowwhat an interesting time to live in right Frank.Right right, we are recording this on April 15th.You know it's serious when even the government postpones taxcollection.True, yeah today would have been the day that yourtaxes were doing US,but they pushed it back.I forgot three months formonths whatever. Yeah, yeah, three months,but it's in Julies coming up on my birthday.That's how I remember it.Like I need another paper.They give it kind of.Yeah exactly, but you know it's been an interesting dayhere.This I live in Virginia.You know? This uh, FarmVille,VA Ann. I imagine you may have gotten different weatherthan I did,even a little more odd for this time of year.This late in spring. It is extremely odd to have,uh, you know, an overnight temperature in the 30s.Not only that, but we saw flurries this morning.I believe this is the latest I've ever seen.Snow flurries. Just crazy.Well, you're at a higher elevation.I think I know. Western Maryland had some snow overnighttoo,so.It could be definitely could be,yeah. It's hilly here where I am.I'm a little little East of themountains. OK, but it isallergy season so we're having just loads of fun herewith that.How's things going with you Frank?How's the family well? Well,we'redoing good. We're allsequestered together, and Fortunately I don't live in New YorkCity anymore.In a small apartment. Otherwise,I think I probably would've lost my mind by now.Wow, yeah we my have allergies,and I think my older son is developing allergies,so we're playing the plague or pollen game.And so terriblegame to play, isn't it?Especially when you're outside.It's like, although I found that wearing kind of likeface masks and stuff does help the sneezing and actuallyin watery eyes.So yeah,actually does so.Yeah, I I.It's funny like I watch TV now and they showold clips or something andI'm like they're sitting too close together.And that's the truth. I've seen it.I'vekind of noticed that too.Soenough about enoughabout the stuff that'sgoing on with that. I have an announcement,Frank.What's your nationality? I amso excited about this. My 17 year old son StevieRay has been selected to present at SQL Saturday.Richmond is going to be a virtual event at nearlythe last Saturday of April to 25th.He came to me about a year ago.He's been

In this DataPoint, Frank goes off topic.Transcript (AI Generated)Hey, what's up? It's Frank here from data driven.The podcast where we explore the emerging fields of datascience,machine learning, and artificial intelligence.I just wanted to take a minute to say I'mbasically.Uh. What's going on? The show we we've been bothkind of slammed.I've had some family issues I needed to take careof.I had the chance to release the show,but even all the Goings on last week or twoit seemed inappropriate thing.I just take a pause and reflect and I actuallyhad the chance today.To unplug, take a day off and.You know he was very refreshing,a kind of reconnect with my purpose.And realize, for instance, right now I'm I'm actually gettingmy car washed and it's been a long while andthey're going to do the interior and stuff like that,but. You know, we pull up in there like howit's going to be an hour.It could be an hour or more and I'm like.It's OK. I mean there's a lot of you knowwe went to a restaurant was a week ago.And,uh. You know it was pretty clear that they reducejust to take out,and I think as things slowly get back to.Normal. People are adjusting. People are stressed out.For many reasons, and I think that's the importance ofempathyright now. Any points of self care,I mean just I needed to have kind of adifferent work schedule this week because of some family commitments.But the key. Is I didn't have to really beunplugged today,but. I felt like I needed to and it definitelyhelp help me reconnectwith my purpose.Why we do the podcast all that stuff have anepisode going out,probably. Midnight or tomorrow. I'll work on getting it,edit it out and published and dumb.You know we're gonna. Do that and I've got areally good gas.Really great conversation. It was about data about.It was really. It was a great conversation and pouredit over a month ago an I hate when Ipulled off a show that long.Not really what I intended but here we are and.Just wanted to just say the most important thing youcan do for yourself,your family, but world is.Take care of yourself 1st and the second most importantthing you can do is be apathetic towards folks.Make sure that you know.Take a deep breath before you get upset.You know I was like I was like Oh myGod forsaken hour.He's like I could use it.Not a nice little shaded place were good and.There it is.

SalesForce, Microsoft, and Twitter have all extended their work from home policies either indefinitely or for the remainder of the year.To say that housing is expensive in the Bay Area would be an understatement.Frank ponders what will happen to the real estate market if you only go to the office once or twice a week? Or not at all?Why spend money to be near a place you no longer go to daily?Transcript (AI Generated)Hey, what's up is Frank here from data driven,the podcast or we explore the emerging fields.Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.So uhm, today this morning.Actually, I read that Salesforce is allowing their workforce towork from home for the remainder of the Year this.Got me thinking. Uh, about other companies that have donethat.Microsoft has at least last time I checked,working from home or going into the office is voluntarythrough at least October.It might be extended. Who knows?Twitter is said that they are going to make remotework possible indefinitely.I'm not sure Google stances,but I think when you see the big tech industries,the Big Giants in the tech industry is really whatI want to say.Is they're all embracing work from home that is goingto have enormous.I think implications across, well,every industry, but I think one of the ones thatwill be particularly impacted.Given that number of Bay Area Giants have kind ofjumped on,this will be real estate real estate in the SanFrancisco area is notoriously expensive,and it's the stuff of almost jokes in terms of,you know, shack and cause a couple $1,000,000 and they'llbe a bidding war for said Shack.I really wonder. Watt That will do for real estate,because if you could you could stay in California.Maybe move 3 four hours away from San Francisco orthe Bay.And you can get a house that's more affordable.And if you are going to be working remotely indefinitely,or even when things kind of go back to normal,whatever, that will look like.You probably only be required to come in less thanfive days a week.Uh, you know, maybe a once a week,4 hour commute. Each way maybe that won't be sobad.Uh, maybe maybe? I mean,that's really going to. I think that's really going toimpact realestate ticular Lee in places like Silicon Valley andSan Francisco,and possibly other places like New York,but I'm really curious to see what the data willsay.So if you have that bad of a commute oncea week,I think most people would be willing to tolerate thatfor more affordable housing an.You know, I don't know.I think that's really going to impact kind of notthe high end 'cause I think people are always goingto want to have some property there,but I really think it's really going to change.Kind of the lower to mid range of realestate allover.Let me not just San Francisco,but I can easily see this applying to New York,Seattle. Places where. Technology companies have really driven up thereal estate recently.I don't know, you know,and you also have the opportunity that you know ifyou don't have to go into the office at all,why not move to Nebraska?You know where land is much cheaper than anywhere inCalifornia?I really think that when the dust shakes out ofthis and now that remote work is much more accepted,I think it's. I think we're going to see changesor unanticipated changes.I always like to say that one of the mostpowerful forces in the universe is actually.Unintended consequences, so I'm really curious to see how thatgoes.I can also imagine folks trying to sell real estatein this environment.Must be having a difficult time because you're basically askingpeople to kind of come and go into peoples homes.If you are real estate agent and you are dealingwith this,my heart goes out to you.But if you like to talk on the show,kind of about how this is impacting you,I don't know. I think that would be interesting toour listeners listeners if you if you're not interested inthat,please leave a comment and we won't pursue that,but I think it'll be interesting to see how thedata shows,kind of the fallout in real estate,not just immediately, but I think over the long haul.You know why pay millions of dollars for a condo?That's five blocks to an office that you're not reallygoing to have to ever really set foot in.It's really going to become,I think, at that point,a lifestyle choice you want to live on a farm,or you want to live in the heart of SanFrancisco.I think the same holds true for New York.You know, any major city,really. As long as there's good bandwidth.Doesn't really matter where you are,and I say this as someone that has worked remotelyfor the better part of 15 years now with acouple of exceptions here and then.It's interesting to see, kind of how this is goingto shake out.And originally I was going to post this and talkabout how I'm getting my vitamin D 'cause I'm outon my deck overlooking a forest and but Facebook didnot. Facebook live did not want to seem to letme want to post with that.I'm going to get some more vitamin D from thesun.The further protect my

In this Deep Dive, Frank and Andy delve into the world of Data Warehousing, what is it and do they know things? Let's find out!Frank also shares that he has a new role at Microsoft.AI Generated TranscriptionHello and welcome to data driven,the podcast where we explore the emerging field of datascience.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 datascience machine learning an artificial intelligence.If you like to think of data as the newoil then you could consider us like Car Talk.However, we can't go on a road trip because ofthe Corona virus lock down.So it's just Andy and I kind of stuck athome respectively.And thanks to the Magic of Technology we can beon the show at the same time.And, uh, how's it going?Andy? It's goingwell, Frank, how are you doing?Good, good, uh, you'llprobably hear my kids in the background.Wewill, and you know what Frank,I think it's fine. You know I'm going to.I understand why you said the word stuck with youand I work remotely an awful lot.We usually record like this.There's there's less in the background.It's your place most of the time,but you have couple of young boys there and youneed to be in the room with them when momwho's also working from home is you know is doingsome of her work so kudos to you to bothof you for finding a way to manage this.Everybody's going through these sorts of things and I'm surethat none of our listeners will mine here in yoursons play inthe background or hopefully won't start fighting so that's Well,I asked, I asked if they do I think alot of folkscan relate though. Yeah, oh absolutely,absolutelyso. We're recording us on April 16th.We Speaking of kids, we had your son on whichif the order of recording goes the way I plantedin my head.That would have been released last week.And Uh, which I thought was a pretty good,uh, discussion on. How stem is taught?How stemmers perceived by quota quote policymakers?And how the actuality of it is?And some of the interesting stuff your son is doingwith Raspberry Pi and stuff like that.Yeah,I was a I was first I was very proudof him.You know the work that he's doing and he's he'shad his his hands in machine learning for really acouple of three years.Now I want to say he was 14 and Icame into his room.You know just checking on say something or something Isaw.A Mario Brothers playing in the background.Like what do you think you know he was?He he had done his school work?He was home schooled at the time he done hisschool work.So you know what he wants.But um, later talking to him about it,he said he actually came and got me and hesaid,OK, dad, it took, you know with I think itwas like 6.You know neural nodes. Here he was able to,Mario was able to figure this out and something like4 hours or something you know later he said Iwonder what it would be if I added a note.I wonder what that would do to it and I'mkind of sitting there with my mouth hanging open.Going show dad more about that nice,but he's been doing it for awhile.I know your kids are interested in the same thing.They're younger Stevie 17 now and you know.and I know that your sons are coming up inthis.In this age as well,they are mentioned Mark Tapatio in that show as hereferred to digital natives.They are digital natives and yeah,that comes with some pretty interesting stuff.So I'm just glad we were able to record thatshow as he gets ready for his first sequel Saturdaypresentation here on that topic.So and that's all assuming that we were able toovercome the technical glitch.We we learned something, Frank,I'd learn something. Yeah,it's not a glitch. If you learn something.So if if for some reason.The you know what hit the fan then that episodewill be recorded at a future date,so we'll see it will,but we've got. We've gota great topic today. You and I've been bad thisaround I want.I know it's been several weeks.It may have been a couple of months.We've been talking about doing this.Right absolutely, and part of what motivates this?An based on the release schedule that I anticipate thiswill have already happened.I'm changing jobs at Microsoft Woo.At your new job. I will be the data andthe AI technology architect at the Reston MTC or MicrosoftTechnology Center,so congratulations. Thank you very much.It's an honor to join such a prestigious team.If you're not familiar with what the MTC is.MTC is a Microsoft Technology Center.There is about 80 of them around the world,and they basically are meant to provide specific experiences.Ends well as architecture design guidance for customers around theworld and it's an honor to be kind of inthat team.It's very rarely does an opening happen in an empty,so when one opened up in my neck of theWoods is like I have to take it.I have to at least try.Right right? So Fortunately I am super excited.And Uhm, 'cause That's what we say at M

In this Data Point, Frank reflects on the somewhat ironic nature of our tagline (and t-shirts) in light of the negative price of Oil.This was recorded on Monday, April 20, 2020 and, while oil prices have rebounded somewhat, there are some strange things afoot at the Circle K that is this world.

In this episode, Frank and Andy interview Stephen Leonard, Andy's son, about his upcoming first SQL Saturday Talk, digital natives, engineering and STEM, and old movies like "Aliens" and "the Matrix."AI Generated Transcript (experimental)Hello and welcome to data driven,the podcast where we explore the emerging field of datascience.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 or we explore the emergent fields of datascience machine learning an artificial intelligence.If you like to think of data as the newoil then you can consider us.Car Talk 'cause we focus on where the rubber meetsthe virtual road and with me on this epic journeyroad trip down information superhighway.Although I think we have to be sequestered because ofthe pandemic is Andy Leonard,how's it going? Andy, hey it's going well Frank,how are you doing, brother?You know I'm doing OK,I'm doing OK, we're in lockdown.I'm in. My wife is actually on an important workmeeting and I have the kids.In the room with me so you might hear ina frequent interjection,but I understand that Speaking of kids,yeah, we have a very unique guest.We do, we do have Steven Ray.My older son is joining us for the first partof this an we want to talk to him becauseat least in this it is first part because heis about to deliver his very first sequel Saturday presentation.Yes Sir, very cool. So I know a little bitabout the back story to this so.Steven, why don't you, uh,kind of do an intro to yourself.You're just. Quick bio I know and he probably knowseverything about you,but most of the rest of his home.Well, I'm for the uninitiated.I'm Steven. I'm Andy's son and or as I normallyrefer to him.Dad, I do stuff with small AI and neural Nets.I also work with Raspberry pis specifically.Sorry iot devices, specifically Raspberry pie.Zan, Jetson, Nanos working a little bit less with thelatter.Recently I've been doing more work with the pies.And, uh, pretty soon on the 25th I will bepresenting my first sequel Saturday class and I guess Ijust got lucky enough to do it on the firstseveral virtual SQL Saturday. Call it whatever you want,lock or unlucky based on the world events.I'll be teaching class on how to install SQL Serveron a Raspberry Pi 3B and I'm working on asolution for the four as well.Very call and it's my understanding that you actually you'reactually studying.Was it telerobotic? Not telerobotics but.Was it? Does a really cold like $10 word forit that Angie,Oh, Mecatronics Mecatronics That's it?Yes, Sir. Cartoon yes it does.I'm uh, it's It's, uh,it's really just all the I believe there are like12 or 13 official realms of engineering,or at least the ones that they teach in college.And it's sort of all of those mixed into onelike hyper focused,really hard class and I really just chose it becausewhen I walk into the when I walk into aroom,if someone has a question,I just want to be able to answer it.I want to be sort of the most helpful Ican be and I figure if I'm well enough versedin.As much engineering as much as much of the realmsof engineering as I can be,I figure I can be pretty helpful.That's pretty, that's the plan.A chip off the old block there Andy.Well, he, uh, you know his.I'll say Frank, he's probably better at it than mebecause his mom has a lot of background training inmultitasking type tasks.She was 911 dispatcher for awhile and to graduate fromthat course.They they literally play five or six conversations at thesame time.And she had to write down and track all ofthe conversations and respond accordingly.So it makes for a good project manager,which is awesome because I have exactly zero of thoseskills,so he has. He has more of that than Ido,but I think he definitely gets his ADHD for me,which this is Frank. We've talked about this about weaponizingthings that maybe hindrances in some fields an you knowthat I hear some of that in Stevie's plans herebecause rather than just go after one discipline.You know, just pick up a discipline of engineering,mechanical or electronics. You know he likes the idea ofkind of popping between disciplines and.You know, I, I think that so he's kind ofleveraging the ADHD there.Yeah, I, I mean I.I think that if you can,it's one thing to kind of play to your strengthsand quote Unquote fix your flaws.But I think there's a whole new level of selfimprovement that I've kind of discovered over the last fouryears or so.Is weaponizing your flaws. Yeah,you know what we talked about this with anti fragileright?Antifragility and not seem to loves books on that.you and I are both huge fans and I'm stillworking on getting him to come on the show.Frank I don't know. I don't know if we're goingto be able to pull that or not,but I have two goals here.Is you're well aware one is to make contact withhim and two is to not get blocked on Twitter?Yes, so he's although if you're for the listener,if you

In this hybrid show and Data Point, Frank and Andy discuss the ongoing pandemic situation and how to help people laid off.

For the first time in a long time, Frank and Andy are in the same time zone with free time to record a full honest-to-goodness show.

In this Data Point, Andy explains how citizen data science is done in New Zealand after a whale watching tour.

In this Data Point, Andy talks to Reza Rad about the Difinity conference, being an RD, and the SQL Community.

In this Data Point, Andy catches up with Manohar Punna at Difinity 2020 to talk about self-service BI tools.

In this DataPoint, Frank talks with Marck Vaisman, fellow Cloud Solution Architect from DC, about data, the R community in DC, and that "aha moment."

In this Data Point, Frank tells us all about playing with Blockchain in a workshop at the Microsoft internal conference in Seattle.

In this Data Point, Frank records live from the streets of sunny Seattle (yes, you read that right) to talk about the cool tech he's seeing at an internal Microsoft training event.

In this Data Point, Frank shares his first impressions of Amazon's brick and mortar store in Bethesda, MD and why the future of retail is data driven.Also, here is the first book for the Data Driven Book Club: Data Loom by Stephen Few.Use the following affiliate link to help support the show!https://amzn.to/2TL0SMxThanks!

In this Data Point, Frank points out that chatbots are in demand again.

In this Data Point, Frank is live at Azure Data Fest Philly Winter 2020 and talks about LinkedIn Live.

In this Data Point, Frank talks about the nebulous buzzword of "real time" and why that's not as clear cut as it may seem.And how, if you run fast enough, maybe you can see how real time "real time" is at Sams' Club.

In this DataPoint, Frank talks to Mark Tabladillo, who's nominated for a major AI award, about why search may be key to AI's future.

In this Data Point, Frank walks through the AI Summit expo area and explains the two things that will make him walk out of his way

In this Data Point, Frank wanders into a real estate convention that's talking about tech.He then finds his way to the AI Summit and explains why every company is a data company now.

In this Data Point, Frank is up way too early, but it's all worth it for a chance to go to the AI Summit in NYC.If you're there, stop by the Forbes Lounge and say hello.

In this Data Point, Frank speaks with Tim McAliley about Azure Data Fest's expansion out of DC and upcoming events.

In this Data Point, Frank talks live from Azure Data Fest Boston and big plans for 2020.

In this Data Point, we celebrate a huge milestone in front of a very important donut shop.Thank you for being our loyal fans!

In this Data Point, Frank reflects on another inspirational MLADS experience, plans for Black Friday Data Driven merch sales, and going 1000 miles per hour.Data Driven Merch: https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A7141123011%2Cp_4%3AData+Driven&ref=w_bl_sl_s_ap_web_7141123011

In this Data Point, Frank talks about one of his favorite parts of the MLADS conference: the Poster Demos.Essentially, the Poster Demos are an AI science fair, where researchers working on cutting edge projects show off their work.

In this Data Point, Frank share his "aha" moment from the MLADS keynote this morning.

In this Data Point, Frank talks about the awesomeness that is MLADS.

Frank and Andy are finally back in the studio together to talk about PASS 2019, Frank's "secret mission," and the Data Driven Book Club?Also, more talk about data driven health with a continuous glucose monitor.

In this Data Point, Frank shares his fascination with a new health tech device that has changed the game for his health.

In this Data Point, Andy reflects on all the new announcements and happenings this week. This is part of our on going coverage of PASS 2019 Summit. Let us know in the comments how we’re doing and what you’d like to see. Live video version of this Data Point is at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/videos/535717323652790/ Watch all our live videos at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV . Like us on Facebook to be notified of when we go live.

In this Data Point, Andy talks to Pinal and Kevin about SQL Server messes and good SEO. This is part of our on going coverage of PASS 2019 Summit. Let us know in the comments how we’re doing and what you’d like to see.Live video version of this Data Point is at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/videos/2427637377454643/ Watch all our live videos at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV Like us on Facebook to be notified of when we go live.

Andy walks around the PASS Sumitt 2019 expo floor and bumps into his favorite editor to brainstorm some new book ideas. This is part of our on going coverage of PASS 2019 Summit. Let us know in the comments how we’re doing and what you’d like to see. Live video version of this Data Point is at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/videos/3136932926333654/ Watch all our live videos at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV . Like us on Facebook to be notified of when we go live.  

In this Data Point, Andy takes you behind the scenes of the PASS 2019 Summit on his way to his presentation. The livestream of the session Andy’s walking to is at http://franksworld.com/2019/11/06/ssis-devops-and-azure-containers/ This is part of our on going coverage of PASS 2019 Summit. Let us know in the comments how we’re doing and what you’d like to see. Live video version of this Data Point is at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/videos/2418536671736052/ Watch all our live videos at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV . Like us on Facebook to be notified of when we go live.        

In this Data Point, Andy chats with CozyRoc co-founder Ivan Peev while roaming the expo floor at PASS 2019 Summit. This is part of our on going coverage of PASS 2019 Summit. Let us know in the comments how we’re doing and what you’d like to see. Live video version of this Data Point is at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/videos/714319039080872/ Watch all our live videos at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV. Like us on Facebook to be notified of when we go live.

In this Data Point, Andy chats with SentryOne CEO Bob Potter while roaming the expo floor at PASS 2019 Summit. This is part of our on going coverage of PASS 2019 Summit. Let us know in the comments how we’re doing and what you’d like to see. Live video version of this Data Point is at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/videos/2362966150499722/ Watch all our live videos at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV. Like us on Facebook to be notified of when we go live.

In this Data Point, Andy chats with SQL GEEKs while roaming the expo floor at PASS 2019 Summit. This is part of our on going coverage of PASS 2019 Summit. Let us know in the comments how we’re doing and what you’d like to see. Live video version of this Data Point is at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/videos/538984283584445/ Watch all our live videos at https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV. Like us on Facebook to be notified of when we go live.

In this Data Point, Andy bumps into some familiar faces on the way to the PASS 2019 Welcome Reception where Grant Fritchey kicks off the festivities. Link to CozyRoc Fun fact: Frank used to work with Grant Fritchey back in the 90s at a large investment bank on Wall Street. Small World. Video version available at: https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/videos/790212794754980/

In this Data Point, we follow Andy as he walks his way through PASS 2019 registration and into the rarefied air of the speakers’ area.

In this Data Point, Andy talks to us outside of a Waffle House in Raleigh about announcements from Ignite and his upcoming trip to the PASS Summit.   Transcript (experimental) Hey all this is Andy an this is the beginning. Well, not really. It’s kind of in the middle of my trip to PASS Summit, 2019 looking forward to getting out to Seattle, catching up with old friends, making new friends. And we’re in my Redgate shirt today friend of Redgate Awesome company. Love you guys looking forward to seeing you all too. And I am in Raleigh. I am at Waffle House. No one who knows me will be surprised by that. And. I’m going to grab a quick bite to eat catch the first flight. And I’ve gotta connect and of course, every now and then I Get Lucky and get a direct flight from RDU to Seattle but exciting news out of ignite yesterday. If you didn’t get a chance to watch those keynotes. You can watch him on YouTube. They’re all over such a an the crew dropped a bunch of announcements about new cool tech coming out very impressed. I was very impressed by a lot of what I saw there. SQL Azure SQL, DW has been rebranded that was a big one. Just looking at this whole approach where they seem to be using the technology that they built to stack new technology on Top of it absolutely love that approach. This is the little individual units of technology are like design patterns and seeing them put those design patterns together in these little chunks together. I liken it to Legos. And they built the you know the bottom layers already and now they’re building on Top of that it’s pretty cool stuff. And you know, there’s a lot of marketing mix in their marketing is not a bad thing, but from a technology standpoint if it does any of what they said it does it still pretty good leap forward an I’m sure that it does it probably does more than they mentioned so as I head out this morning to breakfast. I hope all of you are having a great day. If you can’t make it just passed summit. There’s past TV and they’ll be showing the key notes from the past summit, you can watch the ignite. Keynotes as well, and it’s going to be a neat week, Anna in technology, so you’ll be good.

In this DataPoint, Frank explains why Siraj Raval has been and still can be a force for good and the democratization of AI.

In this DataPoint, Andy talks with Patrick Leblanc about some of the AI features of PowerBI live from SQL BI Saturday Atlanta.

Continuing our live coverage of Azure Data Fest Fall 2019 in Reston is this session by Frank La Vigne. Neural Networks from the Ground Up Neural networks are an essential element of many advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. However, few people understand the core mathematical or structural underpinnings of this concept. In this session, learn the basic structure of neural networks and how to build out a simple neural network from scratch with Python. This episode was recorded live at the Azure Data Fest in Reston, VA on Oct 11, 2019. You can watch the entire live stream here: http://franksworld.com/2019/10/11/azure-data-fest-reston-live-stream/

Continuing our live coverage of Azure Data Fest Fall 2019 in Reston is this session by James Genus, Jr on Linux on Azure. About the Speaker: James Genus Jr. has been working in technology for 25+ years across many industries including commercial, public and non-profit sectors. In 1997, he started using Linux which led to eventually working for Red Hat. Currently, he works for Microsoft as an Azure Cloud Solution Architect. This episode was recorded live at the Azure Data Fest in Reston, VA on Oct 11, 2019. You can watch the entire live stream here: http://franksworld.com/2019/10/11/azure-data-fest-reston-live-stream/