At the Philly Azure Data Fest, Frank sits down with Tim McAliley to find out where Azure Data Fest started and where it’s headed to next,

Frank and Andy are out and about and if they can’t be in the studio, they are going to bring the studio to where they are in order to keep you up to date on all the data happenings out there.

In this Data Point, Frank is at the Philadephia Azure Data Fest to listen, learn, and record.  He also talks about the recent announcements from the Microsoft Build conference earlier this week.

… and Andy’s delivering training!

From Frank and Andy at Data Driven: “For those about to teach, WE SALUTE YOU!”

Happy Teacher Appreciation Day, teachers! You rock!

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Andy ran into Kathi Kellenberger at SQL Saturday Albuquerque to talk about her career change, Breaking Bad, and loving your job.

Andy ran into  Jason Brimhall, certified Data Master, about high volume transactions, big data, and how DBAs fit into the Data Science picture.

Andy speaks with Meagan Longoria about the importance of creating accessible reports in PowerBI, SQL Pass and more.

Andy may not be the one who knocks, but he is in Albuquerque for SQL Saturday.

He runs into DBA extraordinaire as to how DBAs fit into the Data Science ecosystem and why they say no to developers so often.

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With Andy travelling around and Frank starting a new job, Frank and Andy have not had a lot of studio time lately.

So, they are bringing the studio to you by creating more Data Point shows, which bring you some of the brightest minds they run into out in “the wilds of Data Science” as well as their thoughts and insights on the spot wherever they go.

Where possible, Frank uses his ninja editing skills to filter out background noise and make the listening experience as pleasurable as it is educational.

A few years ago, Andy collected local weather data from his farm near Farmville Virginia and posted it online.

Why? To see if he could. Even though the old weather station ceased working years ago, he still uses the data in SSIS training courses he delivers.

It was time for a new weather station, so Andy picked up this Acurite model. He plans to use it to conduct data science and data engineering experiments. Why? To see if he could.

To get things started, Andy set up the Acurite software to append readings to a CSV file every 12 minutes. He then grabbed a copy of the AzCopy command-line utility Andy decided to run the Acurite software and AzCopy on a very old Windows 7 machine (with only 2GB RAM). Why? To see if he could.

It works.

Andy built a command line for AzCopy that performs a data transfer from the old Win7 machine to Azure Blob Storage. He then used Task Scheduler to fire the command line every 15 minutes… and you already know why.

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In this DataPoint, Frank talks about the term “Data Estate” in front of an actual estate.