Data Driven

Today, Frank was in Philadelphia presenting a session at AI Discovery Day on Computer Vision Cognitive Services. The labs for this session are on GitHub: https://github.com/Azure/LearnAI-Bootcamp/tree/master/lab01.1-computer_vision These events will be taking place across the US. Here are a few dates and links to registration. City Date Title Link Boston, MA 9/28/2018 AI Discovery Day Registration Link Boston, MA 10/16/2018 AI Discovery Day Registration Link Malvern, PA 10/17/2018 AI Discovery Day Registration Link Reston, VA 10/25/2018 AI Discovery Day Registration Link Boston, MA 10/25/2018 WORKSHOP: Applied AI – Cognitive Services Registration Link

Hurricane #Florence has been making its presence known on the eastern shores of the mid-Atlantic region since the wee hours of this morning (13 Sep 2018). In Farmville, Andy is seeing weather that is being pushed by the storm – not the storm itself. Update: Andy blogged about the @AndyWeather weather station and how he uses IoT technology to tweet weather data and display it at AndyWeather.com. In other news, this is Episode #150 and we hit 70,000 downloads earlier today. Thank you listeners! Thank you guests! Yall rock!

In this DataPoint, Andy shares plans to capture weather data from Hurricane Florence for a site he maintains – named AndyWeather – and a Twitter account named @AndyWeather.

In this episode, Frank and Andy chat with Stu Ainsworth about service reliability in a chaotic world. Links Sponsor: Audible.com – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes Postmortem: VSTS 4 September 2018 ([02:00]) Stuart Ainsworth on Twitter: @CodeGumbo ([05:30]) Reliability: Expectations vs. Solutions ([06:00]) “Canada is another country.” ([11:00]) “Serendipitous” ([11:55]) TV references: MacGyver and The A-Team ([13:40]) Chaos Monkey ([00:00]) Brent‘s book review of Database Reliability Engineering ([15:00]) Andy cannot count 9’s… ([19:15]) The shifting node for “big data.” ([23:30]) Service Level Objective ([25:00]) The Black Swan (Audible) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) ([28:00]) Frank’s 9/11 Experience ([30:00]) Culture is prime. ([35:00]) The hard part is figuring out, “What is the problem we’re trying to solve?” ([35:45]) DTU ([36:50]) Things are changing. Some folks are threatened ([40:30]) Stu works for Jack Henry. ([41:40]) Risk cannot be removed by technology. ([43:30]) “… it’s kinda like an old girlfriend…” – Stuart Ainsworth ([44:30]) Road trips! ([47:30]) “We are living in interesting times.” ([49:00]) Hoschton, Georgia ([50:25]) Stu likes the book Accelerate ([52:40]) Find out more about Stu at CodeGumbo.com! ([53:45]) Learn more about Azure DataFest by following @AzureDataFest on Twitter! ([54:00])

On Friday, the first ever Azure AI Fest was held in Reston, VA.  Data Driven streamed the keynote presentation live and was a sponsor. So, enjoy the audio of the keynote address by Ashish Jaiman, a former colleague and manager, who now works in the Democracy and Cybersecurity team at Microsoft. If you prefer to watch the event, including some of our special effects laden pre-roll, then click on the play icon below. Jump to the ten minute mark to see the event.

In this episode, Frank and Andy talk to Jake Mannix, an accomplished data engineer who has had an amazing career. Links Sponsor: Audible.com – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes Frank heartily recommends Head Strong ([00:50]) It takes a lot of time to fly from Farmville to India… ([2:40]) Audible is a sponsor! ([04:00]) Jake is a Chief Data Engineer for LucidWorks ([06:15]) Jake describes a cool Systems Development Cycle… ([10:00]) … and compares and contrasts with Customer Service and Product Engineering. ([12:00]) Sometimes this cycle works “too good!” ([13:10]) Learn more about Lucene. ([15:00]) We now search by typing questions. Not terms. ([15:40]) More about Query-Intent Classification… ([17:10]) “How Do I Do Brain Surgery” – Google Search ([18:25]) Smart search is based on closed loop analysis of “who clicks on what.” ([19:30]) One example of public search datasets: Google Trends. ([21:30]) What is a garage-door opener? ([22:00]) “We expect a lot from search these days.” ([26:10]) Searching Amazon for garage door. ([26:40]) “Data is their foundation.” ([28:00]) “I’m a data engineer.” ([31:00]) “Math is fun but it’s 5% of the work.” What is most of the work? Data cleansing. ([31:20]) On tensors… ([31:40]) Jake likes to run long distances over mountains! ([33:10]) Jake thinks self-driving cars will be cool. ([37:30]) Jake shares his encounter with the Moonies, which wins the Something Different About Yourself segment (to date). ([39:35]) Jake and his daughter like to listen to audio books. ([43:20]) Learn more about Jake on LinkedIn! ([44:00]) Jak helped build LinkedIn‘s search engine! ([44:44]) Check out the LucidWorks blog. ([45:00])

If you’ve not heard the news, the first ever Azure AI Fest is happening Reston this Friday and we are super excited to announce that Data Driven will be the official media sponsor. As such, we’ll be live streaming the keynote on our Faceook page.

While on the drive back from the inaugural Azure Data Fest Atlanta, Andy pauses and reflects on what it takes to get into Data Science, AI, and Data Engineering in 2018.

Andy is at the inaugural Atlanta Azure Data Fest and, while talking to organizer Stu Ainsworth, a who’s who of Atlanta SQL community folks, including former guest Julie Smith, drop by and say hello.

Andy is presenting at the Atlanta Azure Data Fest and he bumped into former guest, Joel Cochran.