Data Driven

In this episode, Frank and Andy talk with Donald Farmer about Data, profiting off ambiguity, fish farming, and Die Hard. Oh yeah, and tree houses. Links Microsoft Academy Data Science Certification TreeHive Strategy The Treehouse Masters TreeHive video Sponsor: Enterprise Data & Analytics Sponsor: Audible.com Free 30 Day Trial Notable Quotes Frank talks Star Wars. ([1:40])…

In this episode, Frank and Andy talk with Donald Farmer about Data, profiting off ambiguity, fish farming, and Die Hard. Oh yeah, and tree houses. Links Microsoft Academy Data Science Certification TreeHive Strategy The Treehouse Masters TreeHive video Sponsor: Enterprise Data & Analytics Sponsor: Audible.com Free 30 Day Trial Notable Quotes Frank talks Star Wars. ([1:40])…

Andy is consulting in Washington this week - not far from the home of our latest guest, Donald Farmer!

In this episode, Frank and Andy talk with Donald Farmer about Data, profiting off ambiguity, fish farming, and Die Hard. Oh yeah, and tree houses.

Links

Microsoft Academy Data Science Certification

TreeHive Strategy

The Treehouse Masters TreeHive video

Sponsor: Enterprise Data & Analytics

Sponsor: Audible.com Free 30 Day Trial

Notable Quotes

Frank talks Star Wars. (1:40)

Donald is more interested in the six-pointers. (6:40)

Donald speaks about archaeology, fish farming, and his famous fish-farming acquaintance (8:48)

On ambiguity... (14:00)

On probability... (17:15)

Gatekeeper vs. Shopkeeper (18:10)

IT vs Business (24:40)

"Nakatomi Space" (25:49)

Data finds a way. (31:23)

On 9999 + Y2K (35:15)

Fooled by Data (41:25)

On the TreeHive (44:20)

Using Blockchain to fight slavery (51:00)

On pacifism (53:04)

I’m here at the Relay for Life in Latrobe, PA this weekend and the thought occurred to me: Data Science is the newest weapon in the fight against cancer. In fact, in a recent episode of Data Driven, Lynn Langit talked about some of the recent work she’s done in this space.

I’m here at the Relay for Life in Latrobe, PA this weekend and the thought occurred to me: Data Science is the newest weapon in the fight against cancer. In fact, in a recent episode of Data Driven, Lynn Langit talked about some of the recent work she’s done in this space.

I'm here at the Relay for Life in Latrobe, PA this weekend and the thought occurred to me: Data Science is the newest weapon in the fight against cancer.

In fact, in a recent episode of Data Driven, Lynn Langit talked about some of the recent work she's done in this space.

In this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy talk to Lynn Langit.  Lynn’s a triple threat: Microsoft MVP, Google Cloud Developer Expert, and AWS Community Hero.  Over one million people have watched her Hadoop Fundamentals online course.  We are honored to have Lynn on our show! Links Mentioned: Lynn’s Website Lynn’s LinkedIn Learning Page…

In this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy talk to Lynn Langit.  Lynn’s a triple threat: Microsoft MVP, Google Cloud Developer Expert, and AWS Community Hero.  Over one million people have watched her Hadoop Fundamentals online course.  We are honored to have Lynn on our show! Links Mentioned: Lynn’s Website Lynn’s LinkedIn Learning Page…

In this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy talk to Lynn Langit.  Lynn's a triple threat: Microsoft MVP, Google Cloud Developer Expert, and AWS Community Hero.  Over one million people have watched her Hadoop Fundamentals online course.  We are honored to have Lynn on our show!

Links Mentioned:

Lynn's Website

Lynn's LinkedIn Learning Page

Genome Engineering Applications: Early Adopters of the Cloud

XKCD WebComic: Listening

Sponsor: Enterprise Data & Analytics

Cool Conversation Blurbs

The Coding Architect and Lifelong Learner (7:30)

Bio-informatics research (10:50)

Opportunistic Learning (21:15)

Algorithms run our day-to-day (27:45)

The law and DNA (31:45)

Unintended consequences (36:53)

Hacking Exposed (41:00)

Lynn Langit Bio

Lynn Langit was a developer evangelist for the Microsoft MSDN team for the past 4 years.. Prior to working at Microsoft, she founded and served as lead architect of a development firm that created BI solutions. She holds a number of Microsoft certifications, including MCITP, MCSD, MCDBA, and MCT. Lynn left Microsoft to do consulting and training in October 2011. Lately she's authored and taught for DevelopMentor (SQL Server 2012 and Google App Engine). Lynn's been doing production work with SQL Server, .NET, Java and more. Her data blog is at www.LynnLangit.com. She is also the co-founder of the non-profit 'Teaching Kids Programming' - more at www.TeachingKidsProgramming.org.