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Data Driven — 313 episodes
Tackling Data Engineering Challenges with Autonomous AI Agents
Unlocking Enterprise Knowledge – AI, Document Comprehension, and the Future of RAG
Demystifying State in AI: Smarter Reasoning and Real-World Legal Applications
How Data and AI Are Revolutionizing Philanthropy for Nonprofits and Donors
Why ‘Data-Driven Decisions’ Are a Myth
Bulletproof KDE and Why Linux is Winning Over Developers
Connectivity and Trust in Agentic AI -Overcoming Distributed Challenges with Band
Wrangling a Thousand AI Agents: Control, Auditability, and Emergency Shutdowns
Why Data Driven Cultures Succeed and Technology Alone Falls Short
Navigating the Wild West of AI in Finance: Policies, Pitfalls, and Opportunities
Token Economy and AI Agents: The Final Hurdles in Enterprise Deployment
The Neuroresilient Leader: Staying Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Governance, Architecture, and the Evolving Role of Data Engineers in the AI Age
Alternative Data and Its Impact on Modern Investing
Andy Boettcher on Why This is the Age of the Chaotic Brain
Synthetic Populations and the Future of Decision Intelligence
Microsoft Fabric Unpacked: AI, Data Sovereignty, and a Bit of Clippy Nostalgia
Celebrating 400 Episodes – How AI Turbocharges Coding, Podcasting, and Creativity
The Real Risks of LLMs - Guardrails, Judgment, and the Human Element in Cybersecurity
Going From Spreadsheets to Smart Agents - Modernizing Supply Chain Intelligence
Inside Nvidia GTC DC: AI, Quantum Computing, Robotics, and the Future of Supercomputers
The Fast-Moving Train of AI - Sovereignty, Acceleration, & Lessons from History
Compute, Carbon, and Cashflow Silicon Data’s Big Bet on GPU Markets
Why Simulating Reality Is the Key to Advancing Artificial Intelligence
Dr Ido Zamberg on The Role of AI in Modern Healthcare Delivery From Databases to Defibrillators
Thanos Diakakis on Surviving the Software Apocalypse – AI, Agile, and Good Engineering
Dr Mike Orkin on Blackjack, Lightning, and Apophenia: The Surprising Psychology of Probability
From Cold War to Code Wars: Unpacking America’s Bold AI Strategy
Dr Alan Bekker on Multimodal Avatars, Education, and Authentic Digital Connections
Christopher Nuland on Stacking Servers & Superintelligence: Hype and Reality Behind AI 2027
Amir Berman on Making Construction Smarter with AI and Analytics
The AI Driven Leader: Rethinking Strategy, Decision Making, and Personal Growth
*Special Announcement* From 386 Computers to AI Leadership: Our Season Nine Kickoff
Jacob Leverich on Efficiency, Elegance, and the Joy of Not Grepping log files at 2AM
István Mészáros on going From CERN to Startup & The Cat That Launched a Thousand Queries
Barr Moses on How Data Observability Can Save Your Company Millions
Sanjay Annadate on Data Driven Digital Transformation
Trevor Schulze on How CIO’s Can Drive AI Strategy
Lillian Pierson on Revolutionizing Growth Marketing with AI
Dean Guida on AI Insights, Data Analytics, and Business Growth
Arjun Patel on Vector Databases and the Future of Semantic Search
Niv Braun on AI Security Measures and Emerging Threats
*Live* Tis the Season for SSIS
Inna Tokarev Sela on Approaching Data Challenges with Generative AI
Geoff Thatcher on How AI is Revolutionizing Storytelling
Alex Gold on DevOps for Data Science and Open Source Practices
David Hirschfeld on Creating High-Impact Teams & Validating Niches
Candace Gillhoolley on AI and Data Driven Marketing Strategies
Baruch Lev and Feng Gu on Data Driven Mergers and Why Most Deals Fail
Artem Rodichof on Empathetic AI and Its Potential Impact on Gaming and Society
Doug Finke on PowerShell, AI, and the future of Small Language Models
*LiveStream* Life and Career Updates from a Couple of ex-MVPS
*LiveStream* Connectivity in the Smoky Mountains
Kevin Latchford on the Security Risks of Large Language Models
Dr Yossi Keshet on Decoding Speech, AI, Morality, and the Future
Aviad Harell's Insights on Tech, AI, and Venture Capital
Chris Cooney on Exploring Data Evangelism
Dr. Julia DiGangi on the Neuropsychology of Stress and Success
A Data Driven Retrospective: A Look Back Through Seven Seasons and 360 Episodes
Jennifer Swanson on Reinventing Business for the Era of Data and AI
Danny Maloney on AI’s Leap to Marketing Mastery
Luke Diaz on Leveraging Data for Customer Retention and Business Growth
Jeremy Utley on Crafting Smarter Conversations with AI
Rene Schulte on the Evolution of AI and Its Impact Across Industries
Ronen Dar on GPU Orchestration for Building ML Models
Devvret Rishi on Powering Real-World AI with Declarative AI and Open Source
Blake Reichenbach on Marketing, Curiosity, and the Love of Books
Max Sklar on Exploring AI, Data Science, and Local Search
Navigating the Complexity of Operationalizing ML Models
Advanced Fraud Prevention in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Diving into Re:Invent 2023: Open Sourcing Dingo and Being in the Top 2.5 Percent
OpenAI Drama, Open Source, and Andy's New Venture
Two Hosts on Two Coasts
Brennan Lamey on Entrepreneurship & Data Engineering in the Web 3 Era
BAILeY Celebrates Guy Fawkes Night
New Year in November, Podcast Backlog, and Scheduling Issues
Nickolas Means on Software Engineering, Data Liability, and Good Coffee
Joe Baffone on the Role of Data in Transforming Healthcare
Data, Security, And Advanced Persistent Threats with Patrick Hynds and Duane Laflotte
Talking AI at OpenShift Commons Gathering in Raleigh
Twingate, AI, and Raspberry Pi
*Livestream* Creating a Home Lab, Speaking, and an Upcoming Webinar
*Data Point* Data Collection on Vacation
Adam Ross Nelson on Getting Started in a Data Science Career
Piero Molino on the Impact of Declarative ML
Lauren Maffeo on Data Governance from the Ground Up
Lauren Tickner on Strategies for Building a Personal Brand
Steve Orrin on the Importance of Hardware in AI Development
*DataPoint* Accelerating AI with Python-native Ray and the Importance of Open Source in AI
Saket Saurabh on Automating Data Engineering
Celebrating 6 years of Data Driven and a New Magazine
Albert Castellana on Generative AI Agents
Bryan Debois on Autonomous Industrial AI
W. Curtis Preston on the Future of Backup Tech
Thomas Yionoulis on Going from Stand Up to Start Up
Gevorg Karapetyan on Talking with Your Data
*DataPoint* Andy Back at Heathrow After SQLBits
Chris Nguyen on Teaching AI Common Sense
AI's Big Security Problem
*Bonus* Buzzwords with Bailey
Josh Blumert on Containerized Storage
Big Tech Layoffs
*Data Point* Live from New York
Jack Tompkins on the Power of Dashboards
2022 Year in Review
AWS ReInvent ReCap
*AWS ReInvent* Walking Around the Expo Floor and the Robotic Bartender
*preInvent* Speaking at re:Invent 2022 about Red Hat OpenShift Data Science!
*Update* PASS Summit and AWS re:Invent
Iain Thomas on What Makes Us Human? Democratizing Creativity with AI
Mark Tabladillo on Ethics in AI, Changing Seasons, & Quantum Computing
*DataPoint* Catching Up with Noelle Silver Russell at Dev Nation DC
RIP Kim Schmidt
Ava Naeini on Pulse, Healing, and Avoiding Burnout
Himanish Goel on Education, Starting a Career, & More
*LIveStream* Virtual Personalities, Ethics, and Elon Musk Talks to His Chatbot Replica
Kristen Kehrer on Statistics, Data Poetry, and Dunkies
Justin Harrison on Virtual Posthumous Communications
Reflecting on Five Years of Podcasting and the Magic of "It depends"
Rupesh Malpani on on AI, Commerce, and Holograms
*DataPoint* Data Driven Workouts
*DataPoint* Did Google Make a Sentient AI?
Prateek Joshi on Using Data to Help the Earth
Jeff Coyle on AI-powered content research, intelligence, and writing.
What is Synthetic Data and Why Would You Use It?
*DataPoint* Can AI Make Art?
*Data Point* A Quick Update
*Black Friday Deal* 86% Off First Year of Data Channel Subscription
Dave Wentzel on the Importance of Design Thinking
200k Downloads, 1000 Days, Announcing the Data Channel, and More!
Alex Castro on Improving Project Outcomes with Data
Alex Murrey on Data Driven Software Development
Christopher P. Willis on Using AI to Create a Better User Experience with Better Content
Matteo Interlandi on Project Hummingbird
Himanish Goel on a Recent Graduate's perspective on Data analytics & AI
Tyler Browder on Brining the Cloud to Space, Kids, and Country Music
Veronika Kolesnikova on Making your applications interactive with Speech Services
Jon Tupitza on Automated ML in Azure Machine Learning
Azure Global Data Fest Keynote - Trends and Futures of AI
Jonathan Wood on F#, ML.NET, and Functional Programming
Priya Ravindhran on Automated ML, Electrical Engineering and Staying Relevant in Your Career
Andy Leonard’s Excellent Data Adventure
RIP Brian Moran
How Data Found Frank La Vigne
Chris Wexler on Using AI to Protect the Vulnerable
Dave Wentzel on Why You Don’t Need a Data Warehouse
Carlos Chacon on Data Community, Family, & Messy Data in Legacy CRM Systems
Chris Gherardini on the role of data in ERP and CRM Systems
*Livestream* Never Say No to Clippy
Peter Voss on Artificial General Intelligence, Personalizing Personal Assistants, and Motorcycles
Dan Burcaw on Entrepreneurship, Using AI to Stop Customer Churn, and Deploying Code onto Nuclear Submarines
*Livestream* Staying Motivated in the New Year, a Secret Project, and Impact
*Off Topic* Work the New Year and Don't Let it Work You
Going from Student to Data Scientist
*DataPoint* A Heartfelt Thank You on this Thanksgiving Day
*DataPoint* Livestreaming from the Beach Beats Sending a Fax from the Beach
Dana Mantilia on Why Humans are the Weakest Link in CyberSecurity
The Third AI Superpower
Rick Hall on Data Analytics, entrepreneurship, and the impact of COVID on Remote Work.
*Data Point* Post-Pandemic Bookstore Visit, Data, and Sugared Up Kids
How Do Voice Assistants Work?
This, Too, Shall Pass
*DataPoint* Did We Just Replace a Human with AI?
Frank and Andy Go Quantum
Careers in Data Predictions, Transforming Organizational Culture, and DIY Solar Power
The 3 R’s of the 2020s: Robots, Retail, and Reskilling
*DataPoint* Robots at Walmart
3 Year Retrospective
Bob Ward on SQL, Faith, and the Dallas Cowboys
*DataPoint* Unplugging, empathy, and selfcare
*DataPoint* If Remote Work Becomes Commonplace, What Happens to Real Estate in Big Cities?
Data Warehousing Deep Dive
*Data Point* COVID, Oil Prices, and Our Podcast Tagline
Stephen Leonard on STEM and the Frustration Inherent to Engineering
*DataPoint* Turning the COVID-19 Pandemic Lemons 2 Learning
Quantum Computing Deep Dive, Jetson Nano, and the Importance of Anti-Fragile
*DataPoint* Citizen Data Science in New Zealand
*DataPoint* Andy Talks to Reza Rad about the SQL Family and Difninity
*DataPoint* Manohar Punna at Difinity 2020
*DataPoint* Catching up with Marck Vaisman
*DataPoint* Playing with the Blockchain
*DataPoint* Live from Sunny Seattle
*DataPoint* Thoughts on Amazon's Brick and Mortar Bookstore
*DataPoint* Rise of the Chatbots (Again?)
*DataPoint* Live from Azure Data Fest Philly
*DataPoint* What is Real Time Data Mean Exactly?
*DataPoint* You Can't Escape Tech and Why Every Company is a Data Company Now
*DataPoint* Live from the AI Summit Expo Floor
*DataPoint* Catching Up with Mark Tabladillo on Why Search is Crucial to AI
*DataPoint* On the Way to AI Summit NYC
*DataPoint* Tim McAliley on Azure Data Fest Expansion and Global AI Bootcamp
*DataPoint* Live from Azure Data Fest Boston
*DataPoint* Celebrating 100,000 Downloads
*DataPoint* MLADS Wrap Up Live from the Treehouse
*DataPoint* An AI Science Fair
*DataPoint* Is Hardware the Next Frontier in AI?
*DataPoint* At MLADS Where Brilliant AI Minds Gather
PASS Round Up, Frank’s Secret Mission, and the Data Driven Book Club
*DataPoint* Real Time Blood Sugar Monitoring
*DataPoint* Leaving PASS 2019
*DataPoint* Pinal and Kevin
*DataPoint* Live from the PASS Summit 2019 Expo Hall
*DataPoint* Go Behind the Scenes of PASS 2019 with Andy
*DataPoint* Andy Talks to CozyRoc Co-Founder Ivan Peev
*DataPoint* Andy Speaks with SentryOne CEO Bob Potter
*DataPoint* Hanging Out with #SQLGeeks at PASS 2019
*DataPoint* PASS 2019 Welcome Reception
*DataPoint* Andy Arrives at PASS 2019
*DataPoint* Andy is on the Way to Seattle for PASS 2019
*DataPoint* In Defense of Siraj Raval
*DataPoint* Live from SQLBI Saturday Atlanta with Patrick Leblanc
*Special* Neural Networks from the Ground Up
*Special* Linux on Azure with James Genus, Jr
*Special* Global Application Deployment for Scalability and Availability
*Special* Azure Databricks Recommendations with Todd Dube & Julia Barnhart
*DataPoint* Live from Azure Data Fest Reston 2019 with Joel Cochran
*DataPoint* Asynchronous is the New Customer Experience
*DataPoint* Live from SQL Saturday Pittsburgh with Bill Wolf, His Motorcycle, and That
*DataPoint* Live from SQL Trail 2019 with Devin Jaswal
*DataPoint* Live from Strata with Matt Kirk
*DataPoint* Live from Strata NYC
*DataPoint* R vs Python – an Unexpected Perspective
*DataPoint* Back from Vegas and a Data Warehousing OpenHack
*DataPoint* Gem Mining is a Lot Like Data Mining
Listener Mail: NoLock, Virtual Summits, and the Scientific Method
Brent Ozar on NoLock, Stoicism, and Playing Country Music Backwards (S3E2)
*DataPoint* Here’s a Retailer that Knows How to Compete in the Amazon World
Inspiration with John Lee Dumas and Tech Intensity with Data Soup
*DataPoint* Season 3 is Coming
*DataPoint* Amazon to Retrain Its Employees. Why That’s Big Deal.
*DataPoint* Frank and Andy in the Same Place, Big Plans for Season 3, and is Frank the Forrest Gump of Data Science
*DataPoint* Knowledge Mining Open Hack
*DataPoint* Celebrating 2 Years of Data Driven
*DataPoint* What If We Lie to the Machines?
*DataPoint* Retooling Workers and Getting Ready for Lifelong Learning
Anders Schneiderman on Why We Need to Prepare Communities for the Future of Work
*DataPoint* Medical Data Engineering
*DataPoint* Chatbot Workshop
*DataPoint* SSIS and Containers
*DataPoint* AI Will Impact Every Business
*DataPoint* Chuck E. Cheese is Watching You
*DataPoint* The Eve of Disruption
Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch on AI, Enterprises, and Startups
Frank and Andy Mix Things Up and Try Not Get Blocked on Twitter
Milena Rodban on Geopolitical Risk, Cybersecurity, and Tennis
*DataPoint* Talking About AI, Ethics, and Transparency at a Super Secret Event
*DataPoint* Be Playful With Your Data, but Judicious With Your Time
Trey Johnson on ETL, Data, and Fixing Up Old Cars
*DataPoint* Andy on Software Development, SSIS Catalog Compare, and Testing
*DataPoint* Provision an Azure Data Factory Instance
*DataPoint* The Costco Test, How to Determine the Line Between Data and Big Data
*DataPoint* Hey, What Happened to Last Week’s Show?
Frank and Andy on Thanksgiving, Goal Setting Tips, and Celtic New Year
*DataPoint* Applied AI Use Cases Talk Last Night in DC
*DataPoint* Live from University of Virginia’s Datapalooza
*DataPoint* Andy on the Last Day of PASS 2018
*DataPoint* Tim Reflects on a Busy Week at PASS 2018
*DataPoint* Andy Live from PASS 2018 Day 2 Keynote
*DataPoint* PASS 2018 and SQL Managed Instance
*DataPoint* Andy Reflects on Data Collection in the Wake of Hurricane Florence
*Special* Frank La Vigne on Reinforcement Learning at Azure Data Fest
*Special* Lift and Shift SSIS to ADF Azure Data Fest Keynote Part 3
*Special* Building Globally Distributed Data Applications with Cosmos DB Azure Data Fest Keynote Part 2
*Special* Azure Data Services Overview Azure Data Fest Keynote Part 1
*DataPoint* Frank and Andy and Joel at Azure Data Fest Reston
Rie Irish on Databases, Women in Tech, and Getting People to Walk in Circles
*Webinar* SSIS Framework Community Edition
*DataPoint* Andy talks to Andy from SentryOne at SQL Saturday Boston
*Special* Computer Vision Session from AI Discovery Day
*DataPoint* Hurricane #Florence is South of Farmville
*DataPoint* Preparing to Measure Hurricane #Florence
Stu Ainsworth on Reliability, Disaster Recovery, and Chaos Monkeys
*Special* Azure AI Fest Keynote with Ashish Jaiman
Jake Mannix on Recommendation Systems, Physics, and the Best Answer to Our Questions Yet
*DataPoint* Data Driven Events in the DC Metro Area
*DataPoint* Just Jump In
*DataPoint* Andy Talks to Stu and Crew at the Atlanta Azure Datafest
*DataPoint* Joel Cochran at the Inaugural Atlanta Data Fest
Micheleen Harris on R, Bioinformatics, and Mountaineering
Listener Mail: EdX or MCP? and How Is AI Tested?
*DataPoint* Teaching Kids About Data and Code
*DataPoint* Getting Kids into STEM
*DataPoint* The Unbreakable Kim Schmidt
*DataPoint* Data Science in Las Vegas
Frank and Andy on Reinforcement Learning, Audiobooks, and Keto
Joel Cochran on Data in Politics, Law School, and Billiards
William McKnight on Data Strategy and Leadership
*DataPoint* Data, Cancer, and One Year of Data Points
*DataPoint* Andy Talks Amusement Ride Metrics Collection
*DataPoint* That Inspirational Moment
Frank and Andy Celebrate One Year of Data Driven
*DataPoint* Biml 2018 Update
*DataPoint* 50,000 Downloads and Databricks Training
*DataPoint* Karen Lopez on Data Catalogs and Rocket Science at Azure Data Fest Philly
*DataPoint* Tim McAliley Co-Founder of Azure Data Fests on What’s Next
*DataPoint* Live at Philly Azure Datafest
*DataPoint* It’s Teacher Appreciation Day
*DataPoint* Kathi Kellenberger Talks Career Change, Breaking Bad, and Red Gate
*DataPoint* Jason Brimhall on High Performance Data and Being a Data Master
*DataPoint* Meagan Longoria on Accessibility in PowerBI
*DataPoint* TJay Belt on Why DBAs Say No to Developers (SQLSatABQ)
*DataPoint* A Quick Note from RDU
*DataPoint* Dancing on the Edge
*DataPoint* What is the Data Estate?
*DataPoint* Allergies and Outliers
*DataPoint* Could One Character Emails Have Saved Toys R Us?
*DataPoint* Frank Talks to Brian Moran at Global Azure Bootcamp
*DataPoint* Talking Data Science to Policy Folks
*DataPoint* Cognitive Biases and Predicting the Weather
*DataPoint* Andy Chats with Andy Yun at SQL Saturday Chicago
*DataPoint* Andy Chats with the Cathrine Wilhelmsen
*DataPoint* Andy Chats with Mr. Bill Wolf at Chicago SQL Saturday
*Deep Dive* SSIS, Data Integration Life-cycle Management