I recently had the opportunity to present a high-level overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a large ecclesiastical and charitable organization as part of a day-long program on digital transformation. At a break one of […]
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10 Takeaways from the Cloudera Hortonworks Merger
I recently sat in on the new Cloudera merger call to see what their strategy was going forward. In the past I’ve liked both Hortonworks and Cloudera for different products, so I was particularly keen […]
2019 Super Bowl Prop Bets: a data driven approach
IT IS SUPERBOWL TIME! In less than 4 days, the two best teams (not to be controversial but Saints should be playing) in the NFL will face off in Atlanta for Super Bowl 53. If […]
What is your security story?
January 28th, 2019 was #DataPrivacyDay and on the 29th, we released our podcast with CISO, Mike Watson from the Commonwealth of Virginia. So I figured, why not finish this week off with a blog post […]
Data Science Salon: A Place to Share, Grow, and Learn
Brett Roberts and Erin K. Banks met with Anna Anisin, CEO and Jeremy Mason, Head of Marketing Operations of FormulatedBy, talking about the Data Science Salon conference. Although these conferences are focused on the data […]
Thank you for ALL your support – Spartan Sprint
As you know, this year a few of the Big Data Beard team members ran the Spartan Sprint Race at Fenway Park. It was an amazing experience and we even have a video to talk […]
Top 5 Big Data Beard Podcasts from 2018
We have had a crazy great year in 2018 talking with some of the greatest innovators and leaders from companies that are absolutely making Big Data a Big Deal. That’s our mission with this whole […]
2019 Data Analytics & AI conferences you should attend
“What do you like better, Christmas or wedding season?” We all know the answer to this iconic scene in Wedding Crashers where Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn hype each other up because their favorite season […]
BDB Podcast EP 53 – Data Wrangling Made Simple with Trifacta
Join Cory and Brett as they sit down with Joe Hellerstein to explore one of the most challenging and time consuming parts of the data science process. Regardless of if you call it Data Wrangling, Cleansing or Munging […]
The What, When, & Why of Splunk SmartStore
At .Conf 2018, Splunk announced a new deployment methodology, SmartStore. The new SmartStore indexer capability allows you to use S3 API to store indexed data as remote objects. While this is extremely interesting for […]