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This is one of my favorite episodes with Nancy Hensley, when she was CMO at Stats Perform.  I've got to get back to my bracket!


Money Ball is back! Nancy Hensley, Chief Marketing Officer for Stats Perform, gives us the latest on data analytics in sports. If you like sports don't listen unless you have time to be entertained.

Show Notes

·      04:09 What does Money Ball look like now?

·      07:30 Mrs Chicago's personal update

·      08:40 Fan website: The Analyst

·      11:16 Stats Perform for the rest of us

·      17:25 Sports tech competitors

·      18:34 Monetizing data. $115M for NFL data! What?

·      27:44 Broadcaster and Pressbox

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyhensley/

Website: https://statsperform.com/

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More AI with Don Finley, Founder of FINdustres, a leading product development agency. Don talks about fusing science, art, and technology into one.  Not your conventional CEO. 

• 01:30 Meet Don Finley
• 03:50 The Midlife Crisis
• 06:36 FINdustries
• 07:02 Kilimanjaro Break
• 09:40 Work/Life Integration
• 10:30 Client Profiles
• 12:00 FINdustries Differentiation
• 13:43 The 2-min Pitch
• 14:58 Science, Art, plus Technology
• 16:34 Good to Great
• 18:18 Predominate Use Cases
• 20:06 When to Seek Help
• 22:20 The Role of the Developer
• 26:37 AI Risks
• 28:17 Big Bets
• 31:22 Methodology and Scale
• 34:41 Top Learnings
• 36:23 The Next Kilimanjaro 

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dfinley

Website: https://findustries.co/

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leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun. 

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next.  The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun. 

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A live, impromptu podcast with Kevin Nugent, Data & AI Global Partner Sales @ IBM with the IBM partner community in Toronto.  A quick and fun discussion on the state of AI in the industry.

• 01:04 Kansas City Chiefs
• 01:93 Meet Kevin Nugent
• 02:25 Shorting Nvidia 03:25 State of the AI Business 05:520 What is watsonx
• 07:22 IBM's Differentiation 
• 08:39 Again, Why IBM?
• 14:13 Making Money with AI 
• 16:37 AI Skills
• 20:06 Go IBM Partners!

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kevinrnugent

Website: https://www.ibm.com/partnerplus

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Let's talk data transformation and what makes a great
seller with Co-founder and CEO of Coalesce,  Armon
Petrossian.
 
As more companies move to the cloud the
weakness in data transformation is becoming profound.

• 01:15 Meet Armon Petrossian
• 02:21 The problem in being data driven
• 04:28 Introducing Coalesce
• 07:53 Automation defined
• 09:56 The ETL to ELT shift
• 11:54 Typical customer use case
• 12:55 The Coalesce differentiator
• 16:18 Proof of value
• 24:39 Column metadata
• 25:40 Data transformation inhibitors
• 28:17 The future
• 31:52 What makes a great seller

LinkedIn:
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/armonpetrossian/
Website:

https://coalesce.io/
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Understanding Search, GenAI, RAG methodology, and vector databases with Nixon Cheaz, Engineering Lead at IBM's Experience Engine.  

• 02:24 Meet Nixon Cheaz
• 04:32 Search without Google
• 06:35 Experience Engine
• 08:30 Elements of Good Search
• 12:46 Search Data Source
• 15:36 GenAI Use Cases and Vector DBs 
• 19:40 Foundational Models?
• 22:07 Impact of Vector DBs
• 25:38 IBM Public Content DB
• 28:02 Use Cases
• 29:58 IBM Technologies
• 32:54 RAG
• 40:12 Health is Wealth

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nixon-cheaz

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A Data Science level set in 2024.  This episode is a live recording that talks to 

Distinguished Engineers at IBM from Client Engineering, Finance, and 

Research with Rachel Reinitz, Suj Perepa, and "Beware of simple questions" Darrell Reimer, respectively.  Pardon just a bit of sound quality issues. 

• 00:16 The Field of Data Science
• 00:50 Meet Rachel, Suj, and Darrell
• 03:37 What is Data Science Today?
• 07:00 Data Science Skills
• 10:25 How has Data Science Changed
• 12:07 A Day in the Life
• 14:25 AI Engineers?
• 23:45 Fake News and Cost
• 30:36 What's Next?
• 33:27 Too Much GenAI?
• 36:49 Low Barrier Risks
• 39:29 Deep Science vs Deep Business
• 42:17 For Fun

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rreinitz, https://www.linkedin.com/in/sperepa/
linkedin.com/in/darrellreimer

Website: https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-ai/foundation-models

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Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales,
IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and
leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

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More on GenAI, Hallucinations, RAG, Use Cases, LLMs, SLMs and costs with Armand Ruiz, Director watsonx Client Engineering and John Webb, Principal Client Engineering.  With this and the previous episode you'll be wiser on AI than 98% of the world.

• 00:12 Hallucinations
• 02:33 RAG Differentiation
• 06:41 Why IBM in AI
• 09:23 Use Cases
• 11:02 The GenAI Resume
• 13:37 watson.x 
• 15:40 LLMs
• 17:51 Experience Counts
• 20:03 AI that Surprises
• 23:46 AI Skills
• 26:47 Switching LLMs
• 27:13 The Cost and SLMs
• 28:21 Prompt Engineering
• 29:16 For Fun

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/armand-ruiz, linkedin.com/in/john-webb-686136127 Website: https://www.ibm.com/client-engineering

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Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next.  The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun. 

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Let's go deep on GenAI, Foundational Models, and LLMs with Armand Ruiz, Director watsonx Client Engineering and John Webb, Principal Client Engineering.  Get a candid view on what is happening in the industy today.

• 01:40 Meet Armand Ruiz
• 05:09 Meet John Webb
• 06:43 The Client Engineering Practice
• 07:51 GenAI
• 11:50 IBM's AI Approach 13:50 GenAi in the Enterprise 15:47 Where to Start?
• 18:10 RAG Method
• 19:11 IBM's Differentiation
• 21:25 AI Regulation
• 24:22 LLM versus Smaller Models

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/armand-ruiz, linkedin.com/in/john-webb-686136127 Website: https://www.ibm.com/client-engineering

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Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next.  The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun. 

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Ronen Dar, Co-Founder & CTO at Run:ai, talks to 21st century gold. Why are GPUs the gold-standard choice for accelerating AI workloads?

• Meet Ronen Dar
• The founding of Run:ai
• Tech Behind Run:ai
• Run:ai Differentiation
• GPU Basics
• Dealing with Model Size
• GPU Memory Requirements
• Advice for Clients New to AI
• 3 Ways to go with LLMs
• Run:ai's GTM
• AI Blackouts
• GPU Fractioning
• Predicting the Future
• Where to Reach Ronen

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronen-dar/
Website: https://www.run.ai/

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GenAI in Marketing.  Making Data Simple welcomes Michael Cohen, Chief Data Analytics Officer and ML and AI product and marketing expert in consumer data technologies.  Marketing Operations, Automated Decision Activation, Measurement and Analytics, Info Security and Privacy. 

• 01:15 Meeting Michael Cohen
• 03:33 The Plus Company
• 08:06 Traditional Approaches to Marketing
• 12:03 The Future of Marketing
• 17:31 Data Augmentin's Role
• 24:46 Data Inputs
• 26:18 The AIOS Product
• 31:39 Algorithms
• 34:03 2 Min Plus Pitch
• 41:13 Aggressive Innovation Roadmaps
• 44:44 Next Marketing Disruption
• 46:33 For Fun

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/macohen1/

Website: www.macohen.net, https://pluscompany.com

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next.  The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun. 

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next.  The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.