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Data Driven — 308 episodes

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1

Bulletproof KDE and Why Linux is Winning Over Developers

2

Connectivity and Trust in Agentic AI -Overcoming Distributed Challenges with Band

3

Wrangling a Thousand AI Agents: Control, Auditability, and Emergency Shutdowns

4

Why Data Driven Cultures Succeed and Technology Alone Falls Short

5

Navigating the Wild West of AI in Finance: Policies, Pitfalls, and Opportunities

6

Token Economy and AI Agents: The Final Hurdles in Enterprise Deployment

7

The Neuroresilient Leader: Staying Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

8

Governance, Architecture, and the Evolving Role of Data Engineers in the AI Age

9

Alternative Data and Its Impact on Modern Investing

10

Andy Boettcher on Why This is the Age of the Chaotic Brain

11

Synthetic Populations and the Future of Decision Intelligence

12

Microsoft Fabric Unpacked: AI, Data Sovereignty, and a Bit of Clippy Nostalgia

13

Celebrating 400 Episodes – How AI Turbocharges Coding, Podcasting, and Creativity

14

The Real Risks of LLMs - Guardrails, Judgment, and the Human Element in Cybersecurity

15

Going From Spreadsheets to Smart Agents - Modernizing Supply Chain Intelligence

16

Inside Nvidia GTC DC: AI, Quantum Computing, Robotics, and the Future of Supercomputers

17

The Fast-Moving Train of AI - Sovereignty, Acceleration, & Lessons from History

18

Compute, Carbon, and Cashflow Silicon Data’s Big Bet on GPU Markets

19

Why Simulating Reality Is the Key to Advancing Artificial Intelligence

20

Dr Ido Zamberg on The Role of AI in Modern Healthcare Delivery From Databases to Defibrillators

21

Thanos Diakakis on Surviving the Software Apocalypse – AI, Agile, and Good Engineering

22

Dr Mike Orkin on Blackjack, Lightning, and Apophenia: The Surprising Psychology of Probability

23

From Cold War to Code Wars: Unpacking America’s Bold AI Strategy

24

Dr Alan Bekker on Multimodal Avatars, Education, and Authentic Digital Connections

25

Christopher Nuland on Stacking Servers & Superintelligence: Hype and Reality Behind AI 2027

26

Amir Berman on Making Construction Smarter with AI and Analytics

27

The AI Driven Leader: Rethinking Strategy, Decision Making, and Personal Growth

28

*Special Announcement* From 386 Computers to AI Leadership: Our Season Nine Kickoff

29

Jacob Leverich on Efficiency, Elegance, and the Joy of Not Grepping log files at 2AM

30

István Mészáros on going From CERN to Startup & The Cat That Launched a Thousand Queries

31

Barr Moses on How Data Observability Can Save Your Company Millions

32

Sanjay Annadate on Data Driven Digital Transformation

33

Trevor Schulze on How CIO’s Can Drive AI Strategy

34

Lillian Pierson on Revolutionizing Growth Marketing with AI

35

Dean Guida on AI Insights, Data Analytics, and Business Growth

36

Arjun Patel on Vector Databases and the Future of Semantic Search

37

Niv Braun on AI Security Measures and Emerging Threats

38

*Live* Tis the Season for SSIS

39

Inna Tokarev Sela on Approaching Data Challenges with Generative AI

40

Geoff Thatcher on How AI is Revolutionizing Storytelling

41

Alex Gold on DevOps for Data Science and Open Source Practices

42

David Hirschfeld on Creating High-Impact Teams & Validating Niches

43

Candace Gillhoolley on AI and Data Driven Marketing Strategies

44

Baruch Lev and Feng Gu on Data Driven Mergers and Why Most Deals Fail

45

Artem Rodichof on Empathetic AI and Its Potential Impact on Gaming and Society

46

Doug Finke on PowerShell, AI, and the future of Small Language Models

47

*LiveStream* Life and Career Updates from a Couple of ex-MVPS

48

*LiveStream* Connectivity in the Smoky Mountains

49

Kevin Latchford on the Security Risks of Large Language Models

50

Dr Yossi Keshet on Decoding Speech, AI, Morality, and the Future

51

Aviad Harell's Insights on Tech, AI, and Venture Capital

52

Chris Cooney on Exploring Data Evangelism

53

Dr. Julia DiGangi on the Neuropsychology of Stress and Success

54

A Data Driven Retrospective: A Look Back Through Seven Seasons and 360 Episodes

55

Jennifer Swanson on Reinventing Business for the Era of Data and AI

56

Danny Maloney on AI’s Leap to Marketing Mastery

57

Luke Diaz on Leveraging Data for Customer Retention and Business Growth

58

Jeremy Utley on Crafting Smarter Conversations with AI

59

Rene Schulte on the Evolution of AI and Its Impact Across Industries

60

Ronen Dar on GPU Orchestration for Building ML Models

61

Devvret Rishi on Powering Real-World AI with Declarative AI and Open Source

62

Blake Reichenbach on Marketing, Curiosity, and the Love of Books

63

Max Sklar on Exploring AI, Data Science, and Local Search

64

Navigating the Complexity of Operationalizing ML Models

65

Advanced Fraud Prevention in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

66

Diving into Re:Invent 2023: Open Sourcing Dingo and Being in the Top 2.5 Percent

67

OpenAI Drama, Open Source, and Andy's New Venture

68

Two Hosts on Two Coasts

69

Brennan Lamey on Entrepreneurship & Data Engineering in the Web 3 Era

70

BAILeY Celebrates Guy Fawkes Night

71

New Year in November, Podcast Backlog, and Scheduling Issues

72

Nickolas Means on Software Engineering, Data Liability, and Good Coffee

73

Joe Baffone on the Role of Data in Transforming Healthcare

74

Data, Security, And Advanced Persistent Threats with Patrick Hynds and Duane Laflotte

75

Talking AI at OpenShift Commons Gathering in Raleigh

76

Twingate, AI, and Raspberry Pi

77

*Livestream* Creating a Home Lab, Speaking, and an Upcoming Webinar

78

*Data Point* Data Collection on Vacation

79

Adam Ross Nelson on Getting Started in a Data Science Career

80

Piero Molino on the Impact of Declarative ML

81

Lauren Maffeo on Data Governance from the Ground Up

82

Lauren Tickner on Strategies for Building a Personal Brand

83

Steve Orrin on the Importance of Hardware in AI Development

84

*DataPoint* Accelerating AI with Python-native Ray and the Importance of Open Source in AI

85

Saket Saurabh on Automating Data Engineering

86

Celebrating 6 years of Data Driven and a New Magazine

87

Albert Castellana on Generative AI Agents

88

Bryan Debois on Autonomous Industrial AI

89

W. Curtis Preston on the Future of Backup Tech

90

Thomas Yionoulis on Going from Stand Up to Start Up

91

Gevorg Karapetyan on Talking with Your Data

92

*DataPoint* Andy Back at Heathrow After SQLBits

93

Chris Nguyen on Teaching AI Common Sense

94

AI's Big Security Problem

95

*Bonus* Buzzwords with Bailey

96

Josh Blumert on Containerized Storage

97

Big Tech Layoffs

98

*Data Point* Live from New York

99

Jack Tompkins on the Power of Dashboards

100

2022 Year in Review

101

AWS ReInvent ReCap

102

*AWS ReInvent* Walking Around the Expo Floor and the Robotic Bartender

103

*preInvent* Speaking at re:Invent 2022 about Red Hat OpenShift Data Science!

104

*Update* PASS Summit and AWS re:Invent

105

Iain Thomas on What Makes Us Human? Democratizing Creativity with AI

106

Mark Tabladillo on Ethics in AI, Changing Seasons, & Quantum Computing

107

*DataPoint* Catching Up with Noelle Silver Russell at Dev Nation DC

108

RIP Kim Schmidt

109

Ava Naeini on Pulse, Healing, and Avoiding Burnout

110

Himanish Goel on Education, Starting a Career, & More

111

*LIveStream* Virtual Personalities, Ethics, and Elon Musk Talks to His Chatbot Replica

112

Kristen Kehrer on Statistics, Data Poetry, and Dunkies

113

Justin Harrison on Virtual Posthumous Communications

114

Reflecting on Five Years of Podcasting and the Magic of "It depends"

115

Rupesh Malpani on on AI, Commerce, and Holograms

116

*DataPoint* Data Driven Workouts

117

*DataPoint* Did Google Make a Sentient AI?

118

Prateek Joshi on Using Data to Help the Earth

119

Jeff Coyle on AI-powered content research, intelligence, and writing.

120

What is Synthetic Data and Why Would You Use It?

121

*DataPoint* Can AI Make Art?

122

*Data Point* A Quick Update

123

*Black Friday Deal* 86% Off First Year of Data Channel Subscription

124

Dave Wentzel on the Importance of Design Thinking

125

200k Downloads, 1000 Days, Announcing the Data Channel, and More!

126

Alex Castro on Improving Project Outcomes with Data

127

Alex Murrey on Data Driven Software Development

128

Christopher P. Willis on Using AI to Create a Better User Experience with Better Content

129

Matteo Interlandi on Project Hummingbird

130

Himanish Goel on a Recent Graduate's perspective on Data analytics & AI

131

Tyler Browder on Brining the Cloud to Space, Kids, and Country Music

132

Veronika Kolesnikova on Making your applications interactive with Speech Services

133

Jon Tupitza on Automated ML in Azure Machine Learning

134

Azure Global Data Fest Keynote - Trends and Futures of AI

135

Jonathan Wood on F#, ML.NET, and Functional Programming

136

Priya Ravindhran on Automated ML, Electrical Engineering and Staying Relevant in Your Career

137

Andy Leonard’s Excellent Data Adventure

138

RIP Brian Moran

139

How Data Found Frank La Vigne

140

Chris Wexler on Using AI to Protect the Vulnerable

141

Dave Wentzel on Why You Don’t Need a Data Warehouse

142

Carlos Chacon on Data Community, Family, & Messy Data in Legacy CRM Systems

143

Chris Gherardini on the role of data in ERP and CRM Systems

144

*Livestream* Never Say No to Clippy

145

Peter Voss on Artificial General Intelligence, Personalizing Personal Assistants, and Motorcycles

146

Dan Burcaw on Entrepreneurship, Using AI to Stop Customer Churn, and Deploying Code onto Nuclear Submarines

147

*Livestream* Staying Motivated in the New Year, a Secret Project, and Impact

148

*Off Topic* Work the New Year and Don't Let it Work You

149

Going from Student to Data Scientist

150

*DataPoint* A Heartfelt Thank You on this Thanksgiving Day

151

*DataPoint* Livestreaming from the Beach Beats Sending a Fax from the Beach

152

Dana Mantilia on Why Humans are the Weakest Link in CyberSecurity

153

The Third AI Superpower

154

Rick Hall on Data Analytics, entrepreneurship, and the impact of COVID on Remote Work.

155

*Data Point* Post-Pandemic Bookstore Visit, Data, and Sugared Up Kids

156

How Do Voice Assistants Work?

157

This, Too, Shall Pass

158

*DataPoint* Did We Just Replace a Human with AI?

159

Frank and Andy Go Quantum

160

Careers in Data Predictions, Transforming Organizational Culture, and DIY Solar Power

161

The 3 R’s of the 2020s: Robots, Retail, and Reskilling

162

*DataPoint* Robots at Walmart

163

3 Year Retrospective

164

Bob Ward on SQL, Faith, and the Dallas Cowboys

165

*DataPoint* Unplugging, empathy, and selfcare

166

*DataPoint* If Remote Work Becomes Commonplace, What Happens to Real Estate in Big Cities?

167

Data Warehousing Deep Dive

168

*Data Point* COVID, Oil Prices, and Our Podcast Tagline

169

Stephen Leonard on STEM and the Frustration Inherent to Engineering

170

*DataPoint* Turning the COVID-19 Pandemic Lemons 2 Learning

171

Quantum Computing Deep Dive, Jetson Nano, and the Importance of Anti-Fragile

172

*DataPoint* Citizen Data Science in New Zealand

173

*DataPoint* Andy Talks to Reza Rad about the SQL Family and Difninity

174

*DataPoint* Manohar Punna at Difinity 2020

175

*DataPoint* Catching up with Marck Vaisman

176

*DataPoint* Playing with the Blockchain

177

*DataPoint* Live from Sunny Seattle

178

*DataPoint* Thoughts on Amazon's Brick and Mortar Bookstore

179

*DataPoint* Rise of the Chatbots (Again?)

180

*DataPoint* Live from Azure Data Fest Philly

181

*DataPoint* What is Real Time Data Mean Exactly?

182

*DataPoint* You Can't Escape Tech and Why Every Company is a Data Company Now

183

*DataPoint* Live from the AI Summit Expo Floor

184

*DataPoint* Catching Up with Mark Tabladillo on Why Search is Crucial to AI

185

*DataPoint* On the Way to AI Summit NYC

186

*DataPoint* Tim McAliley on Azure Data Fest Expansion and Global AI Bootcamp

187

*DataPoint* Live from Azure Data Fest Boston

188

*DataPoint* Celebrating 100,000 Downloads

189

*DataPoint* MLADS Wrap Up Live from the Treehouse

190

*DataPoint* An AI Science Fair

191

*DataPoint* Is Hardware the Next Frontier in AI?

192

*DataPoint* At MLADS Where Brilliant AI Minds Gather

193

PASS Round Up, Frank’s Secret Mission, and the Data Driven Book Club

194

*DataPoint* Real Time Blood Sugar Monitoring

195

*DataPoint* Leaving PASS 2019

196

*DataPoint* Pinal and Kevin

197

*DataPoint* Live from the PASS Summit 2019 Expo Hall

198

*DataPoint* Go Behind the Scenes of PASS 2019 with Andy

199

*DataPoint* Andy Talks to CozyRoc Co-Founder Ivan Peev

200

*DataPoint* Andy Speaks with SentryOne CEO Bob Potter

201

*DataPoint* Hanging Out with #SQLGeeks at PASS 2019

202

*DataPoint* PASS 2019 Welcome Reception

203

*DataPoint* Andy Arrives at PASS 2019

204

*DataPoint* Andy is on the Way to Seattle for PASS 2019

205

*DataPoint* In Defense of Siraj Raval

206

*DataPoint* Live from SQLBI Saturday Atlanta with Patrick Leblanc

207

*Special* Neural Networks from the Ground Up

208

*Special* Linux on Azure with James Genus, Jr

209

*Special* Global Application Deployment for Scalability and Availability

210

*Special* Azure Databricks Recommendations with Todd Dube & Julia Barnhart

211

*DataPoint* Live from Azure Data Fest Reston 2019 with Joel Cochran

212

*DataPoint* Asynchronous is the New Customer Experience

213

*DataPoint* Live from SQL Saturday Pittsburgh with Bill Wolf, His Motorcycle, and That

214

*DataPoint* Live from SQL Trail 2019 with Devin Jaswal

215

*DataPoint* Live from Strata with Matt Kirk

216

*DataPoint* Live from Strata NYC

217

*DataPoint* R vs Python – an Unexpected Perspective

218

*DataPoint* Back from Vegas and a Data Warehousing OpenHack

219

*DataPoint* Gem Mining is a Lot Like Data Mining

220

Listener Mail: NoLock, Virtual Summits, and the Scientific Method

221

Brent Ozar on NoLock, Stoicism, and Playing Country Music Backwards (S3E2)

222

*DataPoint* Here’s a Retailer that Knows How to Compete in the Amazon World

223

Inspiration with John Lee Dumas and Tech Intensity with Data Soup

224

*DataPoint* Season 3 is Coming

225

*DataPoint* Amazon to Retrain Its Employees. Why That’s Big Deal.

226

*DataPoint* Frank and Andy in the Same Place, Big Plans for Season 3, and is Frank the Forrest Gump of Data Science

227

*DataPoint* Knowledge Mining Open Hack

228

*DataPoint* Celebrating 2 Years of Data Driven

229

*DataPoint* What If We Lie to the Machines?

230

*DataPoint* Retooling Workers and Getting Ready for Lifelong Learning

231

Anders Schneiderman on Why We Need to Prepare Communities for the Future of Work

232

*DataPoint* Medical Data Engineering

233

*DataPoint* Chatbot Workshop

234

*DataPoint* SSIS and Containers

235

*DataPoint* AI Will Impact Every Business

236

*DataPoint* Chuck E. Cheese is Watching You

237

*DataPoint* The Eve of Disruption

238

Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch on AI, Enterprises, and Startups

239

Frank and Andy Mix Things Up and Try Not Get Blocked on Twitter

240

Milena Rodban on Geopolitical Risk, Cybersecurity, and Tennis

241

*DataPoint* Talking About AI, Ethics, and Transparency at a Super Secret Event

242

*DataPoint* Be Playful With Your Data, but Judicious With Your Time

243

Trey Johnson on ETL, Data, and Fixing Up Old Cars

244

*DataPoint* Andy on Software Development, SSIS Catalog Compare, and Testing

245

*DataPoint* Provision an Azure Data Factory Instance

246

*DataPoint* The Costco Test, How to Determine the Line Between Data and Big Data

247

*DataPoint* Hey, What Happened to Last Week’s Show?

248

Frank and Andy on Thanksgiving, Goal Setting Tips, and Celtic New Year

249

*DataPoint* Applied AI Use Cases Talk Last Night in DC

250

*DataPoint* Live from University of Virginia’s Datapalooza

251

*DataPoint* Andy on the Last Day of PASS 2018

252

*DataPoint* Tim Reflects on a Busy Week at PASS 2018

253

*DataPoint* Andy Live from PASS 2018 Day 2 Keynote

254

*DataPoint* PASS 2018 and SQL Managed Instance

255

*DataPoint* Andy Reflects on Data Collection in the Wake of Hurricane Florence

256

*Special* Frank La Vigne on Reinforcement Learning at Azure Data Fest

257

*Special* Lift and Shift SSIS to ADF Azure Data Fest Keynote Part 3

258

*Special* Building Globally Distributed Data Applications with Cosmos DB Azure Data Fest Keynote Part 2

259

*Special* Azure Data Services Overview Azure Data Fest Keynote Part 1

260

*DataPoint* Frank and Andy and Joel at Azure Data Fest Reston

261

Rie Irish on Databases, Women in Tech, and Getting People to Walk in Circles

262

*Webinar* SSIS Framework Community Edition

263

*DataPoint* Andy talks to Andy from SentryOne at SQL Saturday Boston

264

*Special* Computer Vision Session from AI Discovery Day

265

*DataPoint* Hurricane #Florence is South of Farmville

266

*DataPoint* Preparing to Measure Hurricane #Florence

267

Stu Ainsworth on Reliability, Disaster Recovery, and Chaos Monkeys

268

*Special* Azure AI Fest Keynote with Ashish Jaiman

269

Jake Mannix on Recommendation Systems, Physics, and the Best Answer to Our Questions Yet

270

*DataPoint* Data Driven Events in the DC Metro Area

271

*DataPoint* Just Jump In

272

*DataPoint* Andy Talks to Stu and Crew at the Atlanta Azure Datafest

273

*DataPoint* Joel Cochran at the Inaugural Atlanta Data Fest

274

Micheleen Harris on R, Bioinformatics, and Mountaineering

275

Listener Mail: EdX or MCP? and How Is AI Tested?

276

*DataPoint* Teaching Kids About Data and Code

277

*DataPoint* Getting Kids into STEM

278

*DataPoint* The Unbreakable Kim Schmidt

279

*DataPoint* Data Science in Las Vegas

280

Frank and Andy on Reinforcement Learning, Audiobooks, and Keto

281

Joel Cochran on Data in Politics, Law School, and Billiards

282

William McKnight on Data Strategy and Leadership

283

*DataPoint* Data, Cancer, and One Year of Data Points

284

*DataPoint* Andy Talks Amusement Ride Metrics Collection

285

*DataPoint* That Inspirational Moment

286

Frank and Andy Celebrate One Year of Data Driven

287

*DataPoint* Biml 2018 Update

288

*DataPoint* 50,000 Downloads and Databricks Training

289

*DataPoint* Karen Lopez on Data Catalogs and Rocket Science at Azure Data Fest Philly

290

*DataPoint* Tim McAliley Co-Founder of Azure Data Fests on What’s Next

291

*DataPoint* Live at Philly Azure Datafest

292

*DataPoint* It’s Teacher Appreciation Day

293

*DataPoint* Kathi Kellenberger Talks Career Change, Breaking Bad, and Red Gate

294

*DataPoint* Jason Brimhall on High Performance Data and Being a Data Master

295

*DataPoint* Meagan Longoria on Accessibility in PowerBI

296

*DataPoint* TJay Belt on Why DBAs Say No to Developers (SQLSatABQ)

297

*DataPoint* A Quick Note from RDU

298

*DataPoint* Dancing on the Edge

299

*DataPoint* What is the Data Estate?

300

*DataPoint* Allergies and Outliers

301

*DataPoint* Could One Character Emails Have Saved Toys R Us?

302

*DataPoint* Frank Talks to Brian Moran at Global Azure Bootcamp

303

*DataPoint* Talking Data Science to Policy Folks

304

*DataPoint* Cognitive Biases and Predicting the Weather

305

*DataPoint* Andy Chats with Andy Yun at SQL Saturday Chicago

306

*DataPoint* Andy Chats with the Cathrine Wilhelmsen

307

*DataPoint* Andy Chats with Mr. Bill Wolf at Chicago SQL Saturday

308

*Deep Dive* SSIS, Data Integration Life-cycle Management