Data Driven

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 https://www.eofire.com/ (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 https://www.datasoupsummit.com/ (Data Soup Virtual Summit). And are souper excited to give https://www.datasoupsummit.com/tickets/?coupon=DATADRIVEN (Data Driven Listeners a Discount (70% until Aug 5, 2019; 50% afterwards)). Back in the day – Richmond .Net Users Group, now https://www.meetup.com/AzureRichmondVi

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 https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/11/amazon-plans-to-spend-700-million-to-retrain-a-third-of-its-workforce-in-new-skills-wsj.html (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 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anders-schneiderman-1030525/ (LinkedIn)), founder of https://makersall.org/ (Makers All) and author of a report titled https://makersall.org/ (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 https://entdna.com (Enterprise Data & Analytics) – and I are delivering a free webinar titled https://andyleonard.blog/medical-data-webinar (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 https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/ (Data Driven TV Facebook page): Read the series at https://andyleonard.blog (andyleonard.blog): https://andyleonard.blog/2018/12/ssis-docker-and-windows-containers-part-0-getting-started/ (Part 0) https://andyleonard.blog/2019/03/ssis-docker-and-windows-containers-part-1-why/ (Part 1) https://andyleonard.blog/2019/04/ssis-docker-and-windows-containers-part-2-executing-ssis-v0-1/ (Part 2) https://andyleonard.blog/2019/04/ssis-docker-and-windows-containers-part-3-adding-the-ssis-catalog/ (Part 3) https://andyleonard.blog/2019/04/ssis-docker-and-windows-containers-part-4-adding-an-ssis-catalog-attempt-2/ (Part 4) https://andyleonard.blog/2019/04/ssis-docker-and-windows-containers-part-5-deploying-to-the-ssis-catalog/ (Part 5) https://andyleonard.blog/2019/04/ss

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: https://soundcloud.com/theworkforceshow/frank-la-vigne (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.  

While grabbing coffee at a recently renovated McDonald’s, Frank ponders the future of work: both low-skill and higher skill work. There’s going to be no hiding from this: we are truly on the Eve of Disruption, where AI will impact everyone everywhere. It’s not all gloom and doom and there might be a strategy to survive and even thrive now and in the next economy.

In this episode, Frank and Andy talk to two guests, Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch, co-founders of https://www.cognilytica.com (Cognilytica) and co-hosts of the https://www.cognilytica.com/category/podcasts/ (AI Today podcast). Links http://thedatadrivenbook.com () Sponsor: http://thedatadrivenbook.com (Audible.com) – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes https://www.cognilytica.com/ (Cognilytica) is amazing!([04:00]) All chatbots are dumb – for now. ([09:00]) Machine Learning vs. Machine Reasoning ([11:30]) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid (The DIKUW Pyramid) ([11:55]) More about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph (Knowledge Graph)… ([14:00]) More about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonsense_knowledge_(artificial_intelligence) (Common Sense)… ([15:00]) On generalization ([16:05]) https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learning-confronts-the-elephant-in-the-room-20180920/ (ML and the Elephant in the Room) ([16:22]) Movie

Frank and Andy mix things up a bit and talk about running R in SQL Azure, becoming Anti-Fragile, Appalachia, and how they got blocked by a big time blogger. Links http://thedatadrivenbook.com () Sponsor: http://thedatadrivenbook.com (Audible.com) – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes Andy and Frank agree https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/ (The Expanse) is well-written. ([02:00]) Frank’s super-secret conference… wasn’t. ([04:00]) You should definitely check out http://www.franksworld.com/ (Franks World) ([04:30]) Keep up with https://twitter.com/azuredatafest (Azure Data Fest) on Twitter ([05:00]) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0795DNWCF/ (AI Super-Powers) ([05:20]) Frank and Andy “learned a lot” when we tried to land a “big fish”… ([05:40]) … and were blocked on Twitter ([06:15]) (It’s all Andy’s fault. Frank’s Twitter block was collateral damage.) ([06:30]) Frank is a Microsoft AI Ambassador ([0

In this episode Frank and Andy talk with https://www.milenarodban.com/ (Milena Rodban), a Geopolitical Risk Consultant and Simulation Designer, which might be the best job title ever. Milena discusses the importance of data and the often overlooked security aspects around data, especially when set against the backdrop of complex business and security environments. Links http://thedatadrivenbook.com () Sponsor: http://thedatadrivenbook.com (Audible.com) – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes Frank and Andy wax rhapsodic about the term “information superhighway.” ([00:45]) Andy has been busy working on new releases at DILM Suite. ([01:50]) Frank has been to super-secret conference… ([02:15]) Happy Birthday, Frank! ([03:00]) Our guest, https://www.milenarodban.com/ (Milena Rodban), is a Geopolitical Risk Consultant and Simulation Designer at https://versprite.com/ (VerSprite Security).([03:30]) “Geo-political flux” ([06:20]) An article on

This week, Frank is at (near) Microsoft’s headquarters just outside Seattle, Washington, attending internal, possibly even secret,  training.  In this impromptu Data Point, he chats with fellow attendees about AI, Ethics, and the ever-present Unintended Consequences of technological advancement.

In this Data Point, Frank explains why you should be playful with your data and judicious with your time in this unusually philosophical Data Point