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Leveraging Human Intelligence For Better AI At Alegion With Cheryl Martin - Episode 38

July 2, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on Leveraging Human Intelligence For Better AI At Alegion With Cheryl Martin - Episode 38

Data is often messy or incomplete, requiring human intervention to make sense of it before being usable as input to machine learning projects. This is problematic when the volume scales beyond a handful of records. In this episode Dr. Cheryl Martin, Chief Data Scientist for Alegion, discusses the importance of properly labeled information for machine learning and artificial intelligence projects, the systems that they have built to scale the process of incorporating human intelligence in the data preparation process, and the challenges inherent to such an endeavor.

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Package Management And Distribution For Your Data Using Quilt with Kevin Moore - Episode 37

June 25, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on Package Management And Distribution For Your Data Using Quilt with Kevin Moore - Episode 37

Collaboration, distribution, and installation of software projects is largely a solved problem, but the same cannot be said of data. Every data team has a bespoke means of sharing data sets, versioning them, tracking related metadata and changes, and publishing them for use in the software systems that rely on them. The CEO and founder of Quilt Data, Kevin Moore, was sufficiently frustrated by this problem to create a platform that attempts to be the means by which data can be as collaborative and easy to work with as...

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User Analytics In Depth At Heap with Dan Robinson - Episode 36

June 17, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on User Analytics In Depth At Heap with Dan Robinson - Episode 36

Web and mobile analytics are an important part of any business, and difficult to get right. The most frustrating part is when you realize that you haven't been tracking a key interaction, having to write custom logic to add that event, and then waiting to collect data. Heap is a platform that automatically tracks every event so that you can retroactively decide which actions are important to your business and easily build reports with or without SQL. In this episode Dan Robinson, CTO of Heap, describes how they have...

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CockroachDB In Depth with Peter Mattis - Episode 35

June 11, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on CockroachDB In Depth with Peter Mattis - Episode 35

With the increased ease of gaining access to servers in data centers across the world has come the need for supporting globally distributed data storage. With the first wave of cloud era databases the ability to replicate information geographically came at the expense of transactions and familiar query languages. To address these shortcomings the engineers at Cockroach Labs have built a globally distributed SQL database with full ACID semantics in Cockroach DB. In this episode Peter Mattis, the co-founder and VP of Engineering at Cockroach Labs, describes the...

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ArangoDB: Fast, Scalable, and Multi-Model Data Storage with Jan Steeman and Jan Stücke - Episode 34

June 4, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on ArangoDB: Fast, Scalable, and Multi-Model Data Storage with Jan Steeman and Jan Stücke - Episode 34

Using a multi-model database in your applications can greatly reduce the amount of infrastructure and complexity required. ArangoDB is a storage engine that supports documents, dey/value, and graph data formats, as well as being fast and scalable. In this episode Jan Steeman and Jan Stücke explain where Arango fits in the crowded database market, how it works under the hood, and how you can start working with it today.

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The Alooma Data Pipeline With CTO Yair Weinberger - Episode 33

May 28, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on The Alooma Data Pipeline With CTO Yair Weinberger - Episode 33

Building an ETL pipeline is a common need across businesses and industries. It's easy to get one started but difficult to manage as new requirements are added and greater scalability becomes necessary. Rather than duplicating the efforts of other engineers it might be best to use a hosted service to handle the plumbing so that you can focus on the parts that actually matter for your business. In this episode CTO and co-founder of Alooma, Yair Weinberger, explains how the platform addresses the common needs of data collection, manipulation,...

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PrestoDB and Starburst Data with Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski - Episode 32

May 21, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on PrestoDB and Starburst Data with Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski - Episode 32

Most businesses end up with data in a myriad of places with varying levels of structure. This makes it difficult to gain insights from across departments, projects, or people. Presto is a distributed SQL engine that allows you to tie all of your information together without having to first aggregate it all into a data warehouse. Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski co-founded Starburst Data to provide support and tooling for Presto, as well as contributing advanced features back to the project. In this episode he describes how Presto is architected, how you...

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Brief Conversations From The Open Data Science Conference: Part 2 - Episode 31

May 14, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on Brief Conversations From The Open Data Science Conference: Part 2 - Episode 31

The Open Data Science Conference brings together a variety of data professionals each year in Boston. This week's episode consists of a pair of brief interviews conducted on-site at the conference. First up you'll hear from Andy Eschbacher of Carto. He dscribes some of the complexities inherent to working with geospatial data, how they are handling it, and some of the interesting use cases that they enable for their customers. Next is Todd Blaschka, COO of TigerGraph. He explains how graph databases differ from relational engines, where graph algorithms...

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Brief Conversations From The Open Data Science Conference: Part 1 - Episode 30

May 7, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on Brief Conversations From The Open Data Science Conference: Part 1 - Episode 30

The Open Data Science Conference brings together a variety of data professionals each year in Boston. This week's episode consists of a pair of brief interviews conducted on-site at the conference. First up you'll hear from Alan Anders, the CTO of Applecart about their challenges with getting Spark to scale for constructing an entity graph from multiple data sources. Next I spoke with Stepan Pushkarev, the CEO, CTO, and Co-Founder of Hydrosphere.io about the challenges of running machine learning models in production and how his team tracks key metrics...

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Metabase Self Service Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran - Episode 29

April 30, 2018 tmacey Comments Off on Metabase Self Service Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran - Episode 29

Business Intelligence software is often cumbersome and requires specialized knowledge of the tools and data to be able to ask and answer questions about the state of the organization. Metabase is a tool built with the goal of making the act of discovering information and asking questions of an organizations data easy and self-service for non-technical users. In this episode the CEO of Metabase, Sameer Al-Sakran, discusses how and why the project got started, the ways that it can be used to build and share useful reports, some of...

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