Big Data Beard

“Ink or pixels, journalism doesn’t change.” - The team sits down with Greg Doufas, CTO of The Globe and Mail, the national Canadian newspaper and a 170 year old media company, to explore how data analytics is being used to enhance customer exper...

“Ink or pixels, journalism doesn’t change.”

The team sits down with Greg Doufas (https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-doufas-a476274/), CTO of The Globe and Mail, the national Canadian newspaper and a 170 year old media company, to explore how data analytics is being used to enhance customer experiences, drive engagement and fuel growth. Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek?lang=en) & Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) dive into the pages of this brilliant company’s history and understand how The Globe and Mail is using analytics to write their future by retaining and capturing new subscribers through their digital transformation. Strata Data London is right around the corner and as with all Strata Data and AI conferences, use promo code PCBEARD (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/124782). to get 20% off conference passes! Full show notes can be found at http://bit.ly/BDB_EP27 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP27). Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).

“Ink or pixels, journalism doesn’t change.”

In episode 27, the Big Data Beard team sit down with Greg Doufas (https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-doufas-a476274/), CTO of The Globe and Mail, the national Canadian newspaper and a 170 year old media company, to explore how data analytics is being used to enhance customer experiences, drive engagement and fuel growth. Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek?lang=en) & Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) dive into the pages of this brilliant company’s history and understand how The Globe and Mail is using analytics to write their future by retaining and capturing new subscribers through their digital transformation.

Strata Data London is right around the corner and as with all Strata Data and AI conferences, use promo code PCBEARD (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/124782). to get 20% off conference passes! Full show notes can be found at http://bit.ly/BDB_EP27 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP27).

Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).

What does Tim Hortons (https://www.timhortons.com/us/en/index.php), Justin Bieber (http://www.justinbiebermusic.com/)and the Calgary Flames (https://www.nhl.com/flames) have in common? Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) and Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek) explored just this with Deniece Kennedy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deniece-kennedy-51508148/), Senior Director of Business Intelligence and Special Projects and Ziad Mehio (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziad-mehio-b4523b27/), Senior Director of IT and Food and Beverage from an operations side from the Calgary Sports and Entertainment. We talk about their business problems and how they are able to solve them with data analytics. One of them being the drop count and getting people to come back to the building. Listen to some of the surprises they encountered through data analytics as well as some items that they already knew and data analytics was able to confirm. They discuss their internal business as well as their partnerships that have helped them drive even more business. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP26 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP26) Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).

What does Tim Hortons, Justin Bieberand the Calgary Flames have in common? Brett Roberts and Erin K. Banks explored just this with Deniece Kennedy, Senior Director of Business Intelligence and Special Projects and Ziad Mehio,

What does Tim Hortons (https://www.timhortons.com/us/en/index.php), Justin Bieber (http://www.justinbiebermusic.com/)and the Calgary Flames (https://www.nhl.com/flames)have in common? In episode 26 of the Big Data Beard podcast Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261)and Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek) explored just this with Deniece Kennedy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deniece-kennedy-51508148/), Senior Director of Business Intelligence and Special Projects and Ziad Mehio (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziad-mehio-b4523b27/), Senior Director of IT and Food and Beverage from an operations side from the Calgary Sports and Entertainment. We talk about their business problems and how they are able to solve them with data analytics. One of them being the drop count and getting people to come back to the building.

Listen to some of the surprises they encountered through data analytics as well as some items that they already knew and data analytics was able to confirm. They discuss their internal business as well as their partnerships that have helped them drive even more business. Full show notes can be found at http://bit.ly/BDB_EP26 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP26).

Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).

Wrapping up Strata Data San Jose conference by talking about driving human progress with data and analytics. Cory & Rob sit down with Wei Lin and Mauro Damo, two data scientists from Dell EMC who have been working on fighting bladder cancer using machine learning. Wei and Mauro detail their approach to identify bladder cancer in patients using nonsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques. Tune in to get an insight into how machine learning is contributing to the fight against cancer. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP25 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP25)

Wrapping up Strata Data San Jose conference by talking about driving human progress with data and analytics. Cory & Rob sit down with Wei Lin and Mauro Damo, two data scientists from Dell EMC who have been working on fighting bladder cancer using machi...

In episode 25 of the Big Data Beard podcast, the team wraps up an exciting Strata Data San Jose conference talking about driving human progress with data and analytics. Cory & Rob sit down with Wei Lin and Mauro Damo, two data scientists from Dell EMC who have been working on fighting bladder cancer using machine learning. Wei and Mauro detail their approach to identify bladder cancer in patients using nonsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques. Tune in to get an insight into how machine learning is contributing to the fight against cancer. Full show notes can be found at https://bigdatabeard.com/bdb-podcast-ep25/ (https://bigdatabeard.com/?p=1691&preview=true).

Live from Strata Data San Jose, the team dives into the world of batch and stream processing with guests Fabian from Data Artisans and Flavio from Dell EMC. Our guests detail an open source streaming data stack consisting of Pravega (stream storage) an...