Big Data Beard

The team sits down with Tom Phelan, Chief Architect, and Joel Baxter, Senior Engineer, both with BlueData, a container-based software platform for Big Data Analytics. While BlueData has been on the podcast before,

The team sits down with Tom Phelan, Chief Architect, and Joel Baxter, Senior Engineer, both with BlueData, a container-based software platform for Big Data Analytics. While BlueData has been on the podcast before, we wanted to have a technical discussion about their recent announcement regarding Bluek8s (https://www.bluedata.com/blog/2018/07/operation-stateful-bluek8s-and-kubernetes-director/). First we dig into the tech behind BlueData and the options it can bring to a data engineer/data scientist, the problems it can solve, and why containers. While kubernetes is great for stateless apps, Tom and Joel explain why it could be great for stateful applications as well. Learn about kubedirector and how Bluedata is becoming a contributor back to kubernetes for this task.

Put on your propeller beanie, and sit back as we dig under the covers of BlueData Epic and BlueK8s.

As a reminder, the Big Data Beard has partnered with some of the best Big Data Conferences around the world to bring you not only great shows recorded at the conferences, but also some great discounts if you want to come join us to learn from the industry's best and brightest!  Here's the details on our conference partnerships:

Disney Data Analytics Conference (https://www.ddaconference.com/) - August 28th & 29th in Orlando, FL - $400 Discount using "DATABEARD-2018" at checkout

Strata AI Conference (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/146117) - September 4-7 in San Francisco, CA - 20% off most passes with promo code "PCBEARD"

Strata Data Conference NYC (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/159902) - September 11-13 in New York City- 20% off most passes with promo code "PCBEARD"

Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP39 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP39)

We met with Christian Palmaz (https://www.palmazvineyards.com/our-team-christian-palmaz), CEO of Palmaz Vineyards (https://www.palmazvineyards.com/) and President and CEO of Vactronix Scientific (http://www.vactronixscientific.com/), a material science company based in Silicon Valley. Palmaz Vineyards (https://twitter.com/palmazvineyards) has been able to pull together wine and data together to not make better wine but how can big data make the process less prone to error, more sustainable to quality and to allow the wine makers to focus on what is most important,  making the best wine possible... to enhance the human element which makes wine beautiful, multi-dimensional, and complex. All the things we have a hard time putting numbers to

In the wine industry, there are many creative people, true artist but as Christian stated, "you can spend your whole life studying art but that does not mean you are going to be a great artist". Christian now feels like he plays a supporting role to those that have the artistic direction even though he has a computer science background. His father started this innovative spirit and the process of using innovation to problem solve. Christian said it best when talking about his role in wine and data analytics, guys like him "don't wield the paint brush, we make the paint"... and what great paint it is.

Christian introduced us to their home grown applications, FILCS (Fermentation Intelligent Logic Control System) and VIGOR (Vineyards Infrared Growth Optical Recognition) systems assist in identifying otherwise impossible to see patterns and correlation. These applications were designed to allow the wine maker to spend their time with the only instrument that matters the most, a wine glass.  We talk about the data model and what data is used.

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP38 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP38)

We met with Christian Palmaz, CEO of Palmaz Vineyards and President and CEO of Vactronix Scientific, a material science company based in Silicon Valley. Palmaz Vineyards has been able to pull together wine and data together to not make better wine but ...

Ovie, a Chicago based tech startup, has combined hardware, software, and machine learning to create a smart food storage system that will eliminate waste and change the way people eat, save, and shop for food.  Founders Ty, Dave,

Ovie (https://ovie.life/), a Chicago based tech startup, has combined hardware, software, and machine learning to create a smart food storage system that will eliminate waste and change the way people eat, save, and shop for food.  Founders Ty (https://twitter.com/tyjthompson), Dave (https://twitter.com/Dave_Joseph), Stacie (https://www.instagram.com/facingsouth/) sat down with the Big Data Beard to talk about how their innovative, IoT-enabled food storage solution can help solve the massive problem of food waste around the world.

This absolutely beautiful and stunningly simply product aims to integrate into your smart home seamlessly with Alexa integration and a big data powered app that not only monitors your fridge inventory, but also helps guide you to recipes that combine the food already in your fridge.  The Ovie team just wrapped up a super successful Kickstarter campaign (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/29031083/ovie-smarterware-the-first-connected-food-storage) is looking to start shipping product in early 2019.

Hear first hand what it's like to found an IoT startup; from taking the leap out of comfortable employment to the epic experience of showcasing your creation at CES (https://www.ces.tech/).

We missed talking with the final co-founder of the Ovie team, Scott Wilson (https://twitter.com/ScottWilsonID) and we will try to track him down...really impressive gent.

If you want to see this interview, be sure to check it out on our YouTube channel.

Get your very own Smarterware by signing up to pre-order at www.Ovie.life (http://www.ovie.life/)

As a reminder, the Big Data Beard has partnered with some of the best Big Data Conferences around the world to bring you not only great shows recorded at the conferences, but also some great discounts if you want to come join us to learn from the industry's best and brightest!  Here's the details on our conference partnerships:

Disney Data Analytics Conference (https://www.ddaconference.com/) - August 28th & 29th in Orlando, FL - $400 Discount using "DATABEARD-2018" at checkout

Strata AI Conference (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/146117) - September 4-7 in San Francisco, CA - 20% off most passes with promo code "PCBEARD"

Strata Data Conference NYC (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/159902) - September 11-13 in New York City- 20% off most passes with promo code "PCBEARD"

Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Show Notes: htt (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP37)p://bit.ly/BDB_EP37 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP37)

Anytime you talk big data these days, you are bound to hear machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence brought up and often by folks who really don't understand the difference.  That's ok; that's the fun with buzzwords.  On this episode, Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton) and Thomas Henson (https://twitter.com/henson_tm) talk to someone who knows the differences and knew them before they were trending on google.

Wayne Thompson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-thompson-8b50532/), Chief Data Scientist at SAS, is a globally recognized presenter, teacher, practitioner and innovator in the fields of data mining and machine learning. Over the course of his 25 year tenure at SAS, Wayne has been credited with bringing to market landmark SAS analytics technologies, including SAS Text Miner, SAS Credit Scoring for Enterprise Miner, SAS Model Manager, SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler, SAS Visual Statistics and more. His current focus initiatives include easy to use self-service data mining tools along with deep learning and cognitive computing tool kits.

It's pretty obvious why Wayne (https://twitter.com/thompson_wayne?lang=en) is so successful when you hear him speak and it was such a pleasure to spend time with an incredibly bright and gracious gentleman that is driving innovation in one of the most important companies in analytics today.  Tune in an learn from one of the best in the business!

The Big Data Beard has partnered with some of the best Big Data Conferences around the world to bring you not only great shows recorded at the shows, but also some great discounts if you want to come join us to learn from the industry's best and brightest!  Here's the details on our conference partnerships:

Disney Data Analytics Conference (https://www.ddaconference.com/) - August 28th & 29th in Orlando, FL - $400 Discount using "DATABEARD-2018" at checkout

Strata AI Conference (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/146117) - September 4-7 in San Francisco, CA - 20% off most passes with promo code "PCBEARD"

Strata Data Conference NYC (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/159902) - September 11-13 in New York City- 20% off most passes with promo code "PCBEARD"

Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Full Show Notes can be found at - http://bit.ly/BDB_EP36 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP36)

Anytime you talk big data these days, you are bound to hear machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence brought up and often by folks who really don't understand the difference.  That's ok; that's the fun with buzzwords.

Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) and Brett (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) chat with Disney’s very own Becky Kirby (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakirby/) and Teddy Benson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/teddybenson/) about the most magical technology conference of the year… Disney Data Analytics Conference.  For years, Disney has been a data analytics pioneer using their massive amounts of data to enhance their customer’s experience from the second they arrive at the park to the moment they leave.  The team chatted with Teddy, Director of Data Integration at Disney, about his team’s role in integrating and analyzing the tons of data Disney collects with the goal of always enhancing their visitor's magical experience.  Teddy talks about the challenges, use cases and trends that his team is seeing day in and day out.  The team also got a sneak preview from Becky into what is in store at Disney’s 18th Data Analytics Conference to include themes, speakers and a party that will be sure to be the talk of the industry for the next year.  Tune in to hear more and to see how the Big Data Beard team can get you a discount to attend this magical conference. This is a must attend conference (https://bigdatabeard.com/micky-mouse-is-growing-a-big-data-beard/)and you can save $400 off your pass to this magical conference using our promo code "DATABEARD-2018" during registration (https://www.ddaconference.com/register.html). Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793). Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP35 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP35)

Cory and Brett chat with Disney’s very own Becky Kirby and Teddy Benson about the most magical technology conference of the year… Disney Data Analytics Conference.  For years, Disney has been a data analytics pioneer using their massive amou...