In episode 30, Cory Minton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/coryminton) and the Big Data Beard gang chat with Scott Kahler (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shkahler/), a Data Product Manager at Pivotal who focuses on driving Greenplum innovation and development.  Scott and the gang dive into the Greenplum Database Software and explore what Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) is and how this technology benefits the database world.  Scott also details the various use cases for Greenplum that includes data science tools.  The team then gets some insight from Scott on the future and whats coming with Greenplum.

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We are also excited to announce that the Big Data Beard is now a partner of the Disney Data Analytics Conference (https://www.ddaconference.com/) that is taking place on August 28th & 29th in Orlando, FL.  Stay tuned to our next episode for a chance to win a free pass to this incredibly cool event.

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