Great Data Minds

Armchair Analytics: DataRobot Cohort and Deep Dive

In this multi-week program you will receive an extended free trial of DataRobot, the best-in-class Artificial Intelligence Cloud Platform.

What is Armchair Analytics?

Armchair Analytics refers to the group of data analytics pioneers who like to explore technology on their own schedule, with their own agenda and use cases. These are self-directed learners who like to get in and go deep, to create their own unique pathway of learning a new technology platform.

After this self-directed learning phase, you will idea share with other members of the cohort during the Deep Dive session.

Author Series: ”Winning The Room” by Bill Franks

Delivering an effective data-driven presentation to a nontechnical live audience isn’t the same as discussing technical details with peers. You must be purposeful and diligent if you want to develop a presentation that conveys a compelling story while simultaneously avoiding myriad traps that undercut your credibility and limit your impact.

Join Mike Lampa, GDM CAO, as he interviews Bill Franks on his new book, Winning The Room, that is specifically designed for the data practitioner to use during presentation development.

Just like athletes continue to practice basic skills throughout their careers, it is also necessary to constantly refresh yourself on how to create and deliver data-driven information effectively and to routinely practice the basics. Join us to learn how!

 

ABOUT BILL FRANKS:

Bill Franks is the Director of the Center For Statistics and Analytical Research within the School of Data Science and Analytics at Kennesaw State University. In this role, he helps companies and governmental agencies pair with faculty and student resources to further research in the area of analytics and data science. He is also Chief Analytics Officer for The International Institute For Analytics (IIA) and serves on the advisory board of ActiveGraf, Aspirent, DataPrime, DataSeers, and Kavi Global.

​Bill continues to provide perspective on trends in the analytics, data science, AI, and big data space to help organizations understand how to further their analytics and data science efforts.

More information and book sales can be found here.

How Covid-Inspired Cycling Changed My View of the Data World

During the Covid lock down, many people were inspired to use their free time to try new things. Steve Neat, the GM of Alation in EMEA was no exception; he took up cycling. Though of course he was intimately familiar with the strong benefits that the Alation data catalog offers, he had never really experienced these benefits for himself in such a clear-cut way. Listen is as he shares his unique story.

 

ABOUT STEVE NEAT:

A software industry executive and sales leader with over 30 years of experience helping leading global enterprises to maximize the business value of their IT investments and data assets.

Successfully assisted high-growth companies like Oracle and Siebel to establish their UK sales operations, transformed the commercial sales organisations at SAP and SAS, and successfully scaled early-stage, VC-backed start-ups like Roambi and Collibra in the EMEA market.

Experienced in building and managing direct (enterprise and inside) and indirect sales teams by attracting, motivating and leading some of the best talent in the industry. Operating internationally across all vertical industry sectors, and accomplished in SaaS, Cloud, ERP, CRM, BI, analytics, mobile and data intelligence propositions.

 

ABOUT ALATION:

Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 330 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Cisco, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, Munich Re, NASDAQ, New Balance, Parexel, Pfizer, US Foods, and Vistaprint. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list and is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com.

Thought Leadership: Ethical Implications for Ungoverned AI

In this thought-provoking conversation we will chat with Matthew James Bailey, international authority on AI and its ethical implications.

Artificial Intelligence is a fascinating aspect of today's world. However, there is a gaping lack of safety guardrails or a proper framework to help guide the companies that are programming the AI. Matthew James Bailey is on a mission to change this. He has developed a new world vision for how we can build an ethical framework that brings humans and computers together in a safe and future-proofed way.

ABOUT MATTHEW:
Matthew is an internationally recognised pioneer and leader in AI-centric futures, AI, Global AI Ethics, IoT, Smart Cities and Innovation. His extraordinary leadership is widely acknowledged throughout governments and the private sector. Matthew has been classified by the US government as “A Person of Extraordinary Ability”. He is an entrepreneur, coach, advisor, visiting scholar and speaker. He has enjoyed meeting famous pioneers such as Steve Wozniak, Sir David Attenborough, John P Milton, Professor Stephen Hawking. He has advised prime ministers, ministers, under secretaries, officials of G7 countries, and many more. Matthew is also a Visiting Scholar to The National Institute of Aerospace (and NASA).

He is the author of the book Inventing World 3.0: Evolutionary Ethics for Artificial Intelligence and he runs the consultancy AI Ethics.World.

Author Series: Data Driven Business Transformation

Join Mike Lampa as he interviews Peter Jackson about his bestselling book "Data Driven Business Transformation."

Data Driven Business Transformation illustrates how to find the secrets to fast adaptation and disruptive origination hidden in your data and how to use them to capture market share. Digitalisation – or the Digital Revolution – was the first step in an evolving process of analysis and improvement in the operations and administration of commerce.

The popular author team of Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, two global leaders in data transformation and education, pick up the conversation here at the next evolutionary step where data from these digital systems generates value, and really use data science to produce tangible results.

 

ABOUT CARRUTHERS + JACKSON:

Carruthers and Jackson was founded by global leaders in data transformation, Caroline Carruthers, and Peter Jackson, to support organisations to fully drive the value of their data.

With so many exciting developments being made around innovations, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, organisations first need to get their data right to ensure the right foundations.

At Carruthers and Jackson, we place data literacy at the heart, ensuring an organisational wide approach to data transformation.

As authors of best-selling books Data Driven Business Transformation and The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook, Caroline Carruthers, and Peter Jackson, embed their principles, models, practical, hands on approach combined with their years of experience in leading data driven businesses, to transform organisations across the world.

 

More information and book sales can be found here.

Thought Leadership: Kent Graziano - Life and Times of The Data Warrior

In this Thought Leadership conversation, we will meet with Kent Graziano, founder of The Data Warrior, LLC.

In his lustrous career, Kent had carved out a very interesting niche for himself as a community evangelist in the world of data analytics. We will explore the value that community evangelists bring to the industry as independent thought leaders (and why as a data practitioner, you should consider evangelism, too).

In Kent's particular story, after many years of being an outspoken Oracle evangelist, Kent turned the full force of his attention to Snowflake, thereby becoming something of a public "Oracle Outcast".

We will explore with Kent one of his most-asked questions: "What made you turn so quickly to Snowflake (before they IPO’ed) after 30 years of being a independent community leader with Oracle?"

Join this slide-free, 30-min video call to learn more about Kent and his journey, and how to become a thriving software community evangelist.

 

ABOUT KENT:

Kent Graziano is a man of many passions.

DATA ANALYTICS //

He is an internationally recognized industry expert in Cloud and Agile Data Warehousing as well an award winning author and speaker in the areas of data modeling, data warehousing, and data architecture. He has over 35 years of experience, including more than two decades designing data warehousing and business intelligence solutions (in multiple industries). He has developed and led many successful software and data warehouse implementation teams, including multiple agile DW/BI teams.

AUTHOR //

Kent has also written dozens of articles and given hundreds of presentations (both nationally and internationally). He co-authored multiple books related to data modeling including "The Data Model Resource Book" (with Bill Inmon and Len Silverston) and "The Business of Data Vault Modeling" (with Dan Linstedt). He was also co-editor of Dan's book "Super Charge Your Data Warehouse", the technical book about Data Vault Modeling. In addition, he is the author of four Kindle format data warehouse and data modeling related books, all available on Amazon.com.

Kent is now working on compiling a foodie photo book with pictures taken during his recent years of travel around the US and the globe while working for Snowflake.

MARTIAL ARTS //

Kent has been practicing and teaching traditional Chang Hun (non-Olympic) Tae Kwon Do for over 40 years (which is actually longer than he's been doing databases and data modeling).

StreamSets: GDM Tech Matters Marathon 22

An End-to-End Platform for Smart Data Pipelines

StreamSets DataOps Platform enables data engineers and ETL developers to build, run, monitor and manage smart data pipelines. Spend your time building and innovating, instead of managing to tool limitations with a single design experience for all patterns (batch, CDC, ETL and streaming), a single pane of glass for management and control, and resilient pipelines that seamlessly handle data drift and reduce breakages by 80%. StreamSets abstracts away the complexity of data engineering, so you can quickly deliver what the business needs through a drag-and-drop experience.

Thoughtspot: GDM Tech Matters Marathon 22

Augmented Business Intelligence, Supporting an Alternative to Data Visualizations

With ThoughtSpot, business people can type a simple Google-like search to instantly analyze billions of rows of data, and leverage artificial intelligence to get trusted, relevant insights pushed to them as answers to thousands of questions they might not have thought to ask. ThoughtSpot is simple enough for any business person to use, yet powerful enough to handle even the largest, most complex enterprise data without sacrificing speed, security, or governance.

Starburst: GDM Tech Matters Marathon 22

The Analytics Engine for Data Mesh

Unlock the value of distributed data by making it fast and easy to access, no matter where it lives. Starburst Enterprise, based on open source Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) is the fastest SQL-based MPP query engine. We give your team a common query tool, abstracted from the systems that store your data, that gives them the ability to run analytics on data where it lives. No data movement or copies required.

DataRobot: GDM Tech Matters Marathon

Empowering YOU to Leverage Augmented Intelligence

DataRobot was founded in 2012 to democratize access to AI. Today, DataRobot is the AI Cloud leader, delivering a unified platform for all users, all data types, and all environments to accelerate delivery of AI to production for every organization. DataRobot enables organizations to leverage the transformational power of AI by delivering the world’s only AI Cloud platform combined with an AI-native strategic success team to help customers rapidly turn data into value.