About a month or so ago Kyle and I were chatting about 2018 Big Data conferences; which ones we wanted to go to and which ones we wanted to submit speaking proposals for. We got […]
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BDB Podcast Ep:20 “Software Composable Infrastructure with DriveScale”
In this episode of the Big Data Beard Podcast, Cory Minton & Thomas Henson discuss software as infrastructure with Tom Lyon and SK Vinod from DriveScale. Tom Lyon is Co-founder and Chief Scientist at DriveScale. […]
Data and HPC Transforming Digital Design in Cycling
The most engaging and illuminating conversations can come from how big data is providing insights and changing activities we are passionate about. We experienced this first hand while recording our podcast and video highlighting how […]
Splunk My Ride! (and my Run and Swim) Part 1
GPS Exchange Format, or GPX, is a common import and export format for exercise tracking applications like Strava and Garmin. As may have been mentioned in previous posts my sons and I are semi-active cyclists […]
AI NEXTCon Seattle
Last week (Jan 17-18) I had an opportunity to spend two days listening to the likes of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter, NVidia, and others discuss advancements in the realm of AI. Topics ranged from the […]
Fresh Start on a New Journey
Often throughout my career we’ve often discussed the journey… It could be the journey to automation, analytics journey from reporting to data as product, or just a journey of self development. I’d like to take […]
2017… A Big Data Beard Recap
Today is the last day of 2017, another year in the books. It’s been a great year for the Big Data Beard team. We added 5 new members, launched the Big Data Beard podcast and […]
Big Data 101.1-Visions-AI-“We Are Legion, We Are Bob”
My family and I just completed our annual pre-Christmas pilgrimage to ski and snowboard in Colorado. For the ride we listened to “We Are Legion, We Are Bob” by Dennis E. Taylor. (In addition to […]
The Big Data Beard team takes a crack at Machine Learning
Machine learning is one of the hottest IT and data analytics buzz words of the year. In fact, CNBC ranked it among the top 4 tech buzz words of 2017 which means there must be […]
Ongoing Syllabus and References for Curriculum to Big Data (Frequently Updated)
Preparation for Practical Stream of Consciousness Curriculum to Big Data and Geekery (Ongoing Journey into the Heart of Data Darkness_201712xx_v01) 101.1 Visions Literature We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Bobiverse Book 1; Dennis E. Taylor; […]