Data Driven

Andy catches up with what he’s been up to at the PASS 2019 Summit, SQL Server 2019, and driving late at night.

In this DataPoint, roving reporter Tim McAliley explains what he’s been up to on the last day of PASS 2018.

Andy is at PASS 2018 waiting for the Day 2 Keynote to start.

PASS 2018 is this week in Seattle, Washington. Andy is on site and he even has a booth for https://entdna.com/ (Enterprise DNA)! Rumor has it that there’s even a Data Driven logo on the booth! We are also excited to have https://twitter.com/SysFrameWorks (Timothy McAliley) as our very first “roving reporter” covering events and happenings all around the conference. Be sure https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/ (to like us on Facebook) to stay up to date and have access to all the bloopers we make while recording DataPoints!

Hurricane Florence hit the US East Coast nearly seven weeks ago, yet the cleanup is on going and many people’s lives are still not back to normal. In this DataPoint, Andy talks about the importance to remembering that there are people behind the statistics and data we gather. Frank’s Thoughts: What prompted me to think about this was how in the first few years after 9/11, I had shared my photos of the event with a researcher at NIST. In email exchange, I remember explaining to him that I would send him more data after I attended “another memorial service, third one this week.” He wrote back snarkily, “you know a lot of dead people.” To which I replied, “I knew a lot of people in the Towers.” He wrote back quickly, apologizing how his excitement for data collection got the better of him and he never really thought about the people who died and that he’s not just researching a fire, but a mass murder. That interchange stuck with me and, as I saw parallels between our excitement about “Andy Weat

In his session from Azure Data Fest Reston 2018, Frank explores reinforcement learning.  As an added bonus, Andy (who’s holding the camera) chimes in now and then.

In this keynote session from Azure Data Fest 2018 Reston, Data Driven’s very own Andy Leonard discusses and demonstrates migrating SSIS to Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime.

In this keynote from the Azure Data Fest 2018 in Reston, Mark Brown dives deep into Microsoft Azure’s globally distributed database, Cosmos DB. He covers concepts then dive into specific features and capabilities that make this database the key to building global applications and services in the cloud.

In this keynote from the Azure Data Fest 2018 in Reston, Tim McAliley and Devin Jaswal explore the data services available in Azure.

In this Data Point, Frank and Andy talk about reinforcement learning, Mario Brothers, and then get sidetracked. Then Joel Cochran stops by and they really get sidetracked.

In this episode, Frank and Andy talk with Rie Irish about her path from sociology to database administration, women in technology, and getting people to walk around in circles.

We love experimenting around here and examining the resulting data. After all, we are Data Driven: not just in name but also in spirit. In this webinar Andy recorded, he also streamed it live on https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/ (our Facebook page). We thought it was good enough to share with our larger audience here. Let us know what you think. Both Frank and Andy have been recording/streaming their live events and we’re curious to hear what you have to say about this innovation in how we podcast.

Andy is at SQL Saturday Boston and he runs into another Andy from SentryOne.

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 (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 https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoftevents.com%2Fprofile%2Fform%2Findex.cfm%3FPKformID%3D0x45091573054&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4129a6aefd354a02d9c308d623c7d5b3%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636735738568882001&sdata=n3hPbPD77NEDl%2FlJZzzzTlSVlQZS3TfF2sslUsLVOXI%3D&reserved=0 (Registration Link) Boston, MA 10/16/2018 AI Discovery Day https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoftevents.com%2Fprofile%2Fform%2Findex.cfm%3FPKformID%3D0x46600936ce4&

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 https://andyleonard.blog/2018/09/andyweather-internet-of-things-iot/ (blogged )about the https://twitter.com/AndyWeather (@AndyWeather) weather station and how he uses IoT technology to tweet weather data and display it at http://andyweather.com (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 http://andyweather.com (AndyWeather) – and a Twitter account named https://twitter.com/AndyWeather (@AndyWeather).

In this episode, Frank and Andy chat with Stu Ainsworth about service reliability in a chaotic world. Links Sponsor: http://thedatadrivenbook.com (Audible.com) – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17485 (Postmortem: VSTS 4 September 2018) ([02:00]) Stuart Ainsworth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/codegumbo (@CodeGumbo) ([05:30]) Reliability: Expectations vs. Solutions ([06:00]) “Canada is another country.” ([11:00]) “https://www.google.com/search?ei=K-iXW7W_Ncap_Qbi7KH4Dw&q=define%3Aserendipitous&oq=define%3Aserendipitous&gs_l=psy-ab.3...5014.6662..6940...0.0..0.101.505.6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i7i30j0i10j0i13j0i13i10j0i7i10i30.Dxc8PSw1o-M (Serendipitous)” ([11:55]) TV references: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088559/ (MacGyver) and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084967 (The A-Team) ([13:40]) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkey (Chaos Monkey) ([00:00]) https://www.b

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: http://thedatadrivenbook.com (Audible.com) – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes Frank heartily recommends https://www.audible.com/pd/Head-Strong-Audiobook/B01N7TZPXR (Head Strong) ([00:50]) It takes a lot of time to fly from Farmville to India… ([2:40]) http://thedatadrivenbook.com (Audible) is a sponsor! ([04:00]) Jake is a https://entdna.com (Chief Data Engineer) for https://lucidworks.com/ (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 http://lucene.apache.org/core/ (Lucene). ([15:00]) We now search by typing questions. Not terms. ([15:40]) More about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_intent (Query-Intent Classification)&

If you’ve not heard the news, the http://bit.ly/restonai (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 https://www.facebook.com/DataDrivenTV/ (on our Faceook page).