https://roaringelephant.org/2018/05/22/episode-89/ With the San Jose edition of the DataWorks Summit only a month away, we go over the sessions that are available in the agenda today and offer our top picks. If you’re going, or if you will be watching the replays online, we hope to guide you on your selection of sessions. DataWorks Summit San Jose 2018 Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:12:20 — 49.9MB) And here is the dashboard we created with statistics on the San Jose sessions, for your enjoyment: https://aka.ms/DWS2018SJ The agenda is still in flux so we will be updating the dashboard regularly. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. ... View more

https://roaringelephant.org/2018/05/15/episode-88-roaring-news/ Returning to our more regular schedule, we have a Roaring News episode today. Dave has articles on multi-cloud readiness, Big Data being a pariah, and Google Duplex and Jhon came up with Synthetic data, data engineers and scientists and a Neural Network sharing cake recipes. Breaking NewsPlay in new window | Download (Duration: 35:07 — 24.4MB) Dave Less than 10% ready for multi cloud http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/hybrid-cloud/7451/idc-less-than-10-of-organisations-are-ready-for-multi-cloud Tech companies distancing themselves from Big Data https://qz.com/1262102/tech-companies-are-distancing-themselves-from-big-data/ Google Duplex https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html Jhon The Rise of Synthetic Data to Help Developers Create and Train AI Algorithms Quickly and Affordably https://insidebigdata.com/2018/05/08/rise-synthetic-data-help-developers-create-train-ai-algorithms-quickly-affordably/ Data engineers vs. data scientists https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/data-engineers-vs-data-scientists?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=awareness&utm_content=radar+content+datascience We asked a neural network to bake us a cake. The results were…interesting. https://www.popsci.com/neural-network-bakes-a-cake Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. ... View more

https://roaringelephant.org/2018/05/08/episode-87-druid-high-performance-column-oriented-distributed-data-store-part-2/ This is the second part of an interview with Fangjin Yang, co-founder and CEO at Imply and committer/PMC member for the Druid project. Druid: a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store which has entered the Hadoop environment with the recent integration with Apache and we since Druid has been around for a while, we are grateful to FJ for spending some time with our listeners. Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:53 — 22.1MB) Fangjin Yang Cofounder and CEO at Imply (linkedin) Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. ... View more

https://roaringelephant.org/2018/05/01/episode-86-druid-a-high-performance-column-oriented-distributed-data-store-part-1/ This is the first part of an interview with Fangjin Yang, co-founder and CEO at Imply and committer/PMC member for the Druid project. Druid: a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store which has entered the Hadoop environment with the recent integration with Apache and we since Druid has been around for a while, we are grateful to FJ for spending some time with our listeners. Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:57 — 22.2MB) Fangjin Yang Cofounder and CEO at Imply (linkedin) Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. ... View more

https://roaringelephant.org/2018/04/24/episode-85-dataworks-summit-community-showcase-exhibitor-soundbites/ This is the final part of our coverage of the DataWorks Summit Berlin 2018. Normally we would not have had an episode this week, since we were in Berlin last week, but we had lightning interviews with the vendors in the Community Expo Are and used that coverage to make this episode. Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:34 — 21.0MB) So less of “Dave & Jhon” and more “ecosystem tech” snippets this time. Even though this does stray a bit from our usual content, we still hope it is useful. This was recorded in a hotel room and on the expo floor so the audio quality is not up to our usual standards, we hope you’ll forgive us! Here is a timestamped list of the lightning interviews: 02:41 Hortonworks https://hortonworks.com/ 06:28 Alation https://alation.com/ 08:45 Arcadia Data https://www.arcadiadata.com/ 11:12 Attunity https://www.attunity.com/ 13:10 BlueMetrix https://www.bluemetrix.com/ 15:27 BMW https://www.bmw.com 18:04 IBM https://www.ibm.com 19:54 Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com 22:15 Nutanix https://www.nutanix.com/ 23:26 Syncsort https://www.syncsort.com 24:54 Synerscope http://www.synerscope.com/ 27:05 Talend https://www.talend.com 27:59 Teradata https://www.teradata.com/ 29:02 -Interview End- ... View more

https://roaringelephant.org/2018/04/19/episode-84-dataworks-summit-berlin-day-2-recap/ And with the end of day two of the 2018 DataWorks Summit in Berlin comes the end of this years Europe Summit. But never fear, we have an extra 90 minutes of DataWorks goodness for you to consume on your way home. Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:26 — 62.3MB) No real editing on this one, recording in a hotel room so audio quality may not be up to our usual standards, we hope you’ll forgive us! Enjoy! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. ... View more

https://roaringelephant.org/2018/04/18/episode-83-dataworks-summit-berlin-day-1-recap/ Another year, another European Dataworks Summit, and yes, another daily recap show from Jhon and Dave. We walk through the keynotes and sessions we attended and give our thoughts and views. This should be useful for anyone who wasn’t able to attend or those seeking to peek into sessions they couldn’t make. Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:23:45 — 57.8MB) No real editing on this one, recording in a hotel room so audio quality may not be up to our usual standards, we hope you’ll forgive us! Enjoy! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. ... View more

https://roaringelephant.org/2018/04/10/episode-82-dataworks-summit-berlin-2018-preview/ Next week is DataWorks Summit Berlin week! Your two hosts will be in attendance and in this episode we go over the agenda and plan which sessions we want to attend and why. Peppered throughout we add further insights and experiences from previous years. Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:38 — 33.0MB) Unfortunately, Dave’s network was a little unstable and there are a couple audio glitches in this episode. For some session statistics or if you can use some help deciding what sessions you want to attend, you can use the dashboard we created: DSW2018 Berlin dashboard (http://aka.ms/DWS2018) Click the screenshot above or go to http://aka.ms/DWS2018 to access the dashboard. It is a dynamic report: clicking on graph elements (bars of pie slices) will apply filters on all the visualizations and the session list. Use control-click to combine filters. The Summit agenda is still seeing some small changes here and there. We will try and keep the dashboard up to date, but make sure you double check with the official agenda! At some point the dashboard will dissapear because t is no longer relevant. for future reference, here is a large version of the screenshot. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. ... View more

https://roaringelephant.org/2018/04/03/episode-81-roaring-news/ In this installment of Big Data News, we talk about the recent Facebook leak, how everybody is still doing it wrong (according to some at least) and installing Hadoop “the old-fashioned way”. Also briefly covered is Elastic’s X-Pack, now even more “open” than before, but still rather closed it would seem. Breaking News Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:19 — 18.3MB) Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. ... View more

NOTE: This was recorded before everything kicked off with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Interesting timing. https://roaringelephant.org/2018/03/27/episode-80-big-data-tracking/ Last June, Wolfie Christl published a 93 page report Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life using big data tracking. Apart from the massive pdf that can be downloaded on the net, an extensive summary can be found on the Cracked Labs website. In this episode we go over the content and give our views on the subject. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:25 — 35.6MB) If you want to follow along with us while we are discussing the different point in the onlin earticle, here is the link: http://crackedlabs.org/en/corporate-surveillance Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. ... View more