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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, 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 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 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 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/

Jay Kumar presents “Global Application Deployment for Scalability and Availability.” A case study of app deployment in Azure using our PaaS services for high availability and scalability. This session will cover a deployment of a globally available application architecture and best practices. 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/

In this special episode, Todd Dube & Julia Barnhart share their real world experiences with Azure Databricks working on a Fortune 500 website. 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/

In this Data Point recorded live at Azure Data Fest Reston Fall 2019, Frank talk with Joel Cochran about Azure Data Factory, Billiards, and how there’s no school like the old school. Original show with Joel: http://datadriven.tv/joel-cochran-data-politics-law-school-billiards/

In this Data Point, Frank explains why Amazon is winning the retail game and how you should transform your business to serve customers asynchronously or risk being left behind.

In this Data Point, Andy talks with Bill Wolf about SQL Saturday Pittsburgh, motorcycles, and the local slang.

In this DataPoint, Frank talks with fellow Cloud Solution Architect, Devin Jaswal, about the SQL Trail conference in Richmond, VA and serverless SQL.

In this DataPoint, Frank runs into Matt Kirk on the expo floor at Strata NYC.

Frank is at the Strata NYC conference today working the Microsoft booth. Stop by and say hello!

In this Data Point, Frank talks about his new found respect for the R language.

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. I’m just saying so last week. We had the jihadis show kicking off season 3. Let’s see 02 of season 3 and. We’ve had a lot of good feedback with that JLD himself actually treated the. The. The episode. Lydia Oh wow, I was super excited with to hear that. We also announced speaking of super excited. I’m doing a play on super we announced the data Soup Summit and so that’s a virtual summit that were put together data soupsummit.com if I’m correct and coming up in. We’re recording this on the 29th of July 2019 and it’s coming up in just under 16 days interesting concept. Now we’re having people record their sessions an it’s for a couple reasons. One is it’s the middle of the night in some of the places where the authors live so the presenters will be probably be asleep when we’re playing their recording, but we’re setting up forms and stuff like that, for questions and we’re just trying something new, and differentso.com. And if you sign up before August 5th. Then you will get a discount if you use 70% discount if you use the code data driven? And beyond that, you’ll get a 50% discount because we love our list. We absolutely do. They’re the greatest listers

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. Uh I had been riffed for Microsoft ’cause. They basically said move to Seattle or else and I rejoined. But 18 months ago. Awesome has it been that long wow well April so. Yeah, well still fit OK 15 months, he was 89 since the job opportunity was like first presented to me. Right right so it’s been an interesting it’s been interesting journey. I’m now they changed our titles for this upcoming fiscal year. Microsoft fiscal year goes from July 1st to June 30th. I am now a cloud solution architect. Congratulations. I. I like that title better because it’s easier to explain it party. My cloud solution architect oh OK, it’s cloud its architect. Where before I was a technology solutions professional which? Requires a bit of a follow-up sentence or 2 well it’s vague. Yeah, it is vague so. It’s nice to have something that is. Yeah, it’s funny ’cause throughout my tenure at Microsoft. I’ve always had those kind of weird hard to explain titles like evangelist. Right you right straight folks like you and gathered 99% of our listeners. We get we know what Evangel says right writing, but to normal people. They don’t necessarily like what like televangelists right like like religious religious right? That’s not quite like that, Well, you weren’t although some would argue maybe it is. Well II know you’ve always had a passion for community for those who don’t know that I don’t know that we’ve ever told the back story Frank. Back story you a

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.

In this Data Point, Frank talks about a new offering: the Chatbot Workshop as well as his journey from bot-skeptic to bot-evangelist. Here’s the book I referenced in the DataPoint

Andy has been working on a way to test SSIS package execution in Windows containers using the SSIS Catalog. That’s a lot of moving parts, which made for a lot of blog posts. Watch the video from the Data Driven TV Facebook page: Read the series at andyleonard.blog: Part 0 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Enjoy! :{>

In this Data Point, Frank ponders the wider impact on jobs and businesses related to self-driving cars that are not immediately obvious. From driving schools to truck stops, everyone will feel the change. The question then becomes: how can we prepare the workforce for the impending upheaval in the job market? Will teaching to the test cut it? Or are we going to have to make learning play and play learning? Show Notes: Workforce Show interview with Frank on “Breaking the AI Code”

In this DataPoint, Frank discovers that Chuck E. Cheese is tracking game playing statistics with the use of RFID cards and how to look up your own data with their in store kiosks.