In this DataPoint, Andy teases some details on Data Driven Season 3, which is set to launch Tuesday, July 23rd along with another special project that we’ve been working on.

Recently, Amazon announced that it will spend $700 Million (USD) to retrain its employees. Why are they doing this? Simple: automation. They know that a displaced workforce would be bad political mojo at a time when the giant is facing increasing calls for regulation, even potential anti-trust action.

Anti-trust laws in the US were made largely in reaction to the Standard Oil Company and its founder John D. Rockefeller.

In this DataPoint, Frank notes how Jeff Bezos just may be the Rockefeller of our day.

Frank and Andy are in the same place for the first time in a while, so they meet up to plan season 3 of Data Driven.

I’m at an OpenHack today learning about Knowledge Mining.

In this Data Point, Frank marks the two year anniversary of Data Driven’s launch and talks about the future.

In this Data Point, Andy ponders the ethics of lying to the machines, how that adds bias, and what the consequences may be.

In this Data Point, Andy discusses our recent interview with Anders Schneiderman, What’s it going to take for neglected communities to come back to life? How are workers going to be retooled? What’s the practical application here?

In this episode, Frank and Andy talk to Anders Schneiderman (LinkedIn), founder of Makers All and author of a report titled How to Help Communities Transform Emerging Tech So They Can Shape Their Destinies.

Quick DataPoint today to make you aware that Kent Bradshaw – a data scientist who works with me at Enterprise Data & Analytics – and I are delivering a free webinar titled Loading Medical Data with SSIS Wednesday 17 Apr 2019 at [12:00] PM EDT.

In this Data Point, Frank talks about a new offering: the Chatbot Workshop as well as his journey from bot-skeptic to bot-evangelist.

Here’s the book I referenced in the DataPoint