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Free the Data Podcast

12 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -

Conversations with people changing our world by advancing the fields of data, AI, and engineering

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Episodes

Data Storytelling 101 w. Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

March 09, 2022 19:58 - 1 hour - 62 MB

Learn data storytelling tips with Cole from storytelling with data. Chapters below as well! // About Cole Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic tells stories with data. She is SWD CEO and author of best-selling books storytelling with data: let’s practice! and storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals, which has been translated into a dozen languages, used as a textbook by more than 100 universities and serves as the course book for tens of thousands of SWD workshop p...

How Marketing Analytics Uses Data to Drive Sales with Eric Ramos (Business Online)

September 30, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 165 MB

Marketing dollars power loads of industries that surround our lives. In this episode we talk with Eric Ramos who is the Director of Data Analytics at Business Online, a B2B marketing firm, about how combining data from disparate sources leads to greater marketing insights and ultimately sales for their clients.  How to Connect with Eric Ramos: - TWITTER: https://twitter.com/eramos42 - LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eramos42/ - COMPANY WEBSITE: https://www.businessol.com/ , https:/...

Seeing Data in Tableau with Andy Cotgreave (Tableau)

September 23, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

Being able to see and understand your data is at the heart of Tableau's mission. Since they're debut Tableau has upended the data analytics industry with these principles and their easy to use self-service analytics software. On today's episode we hear from Tableau Evangelist, data veteran, and former magician, Andy Cotgreave on the keys to success in data as well as how Tableau software enables you to succeed.  How to Connect with Andy: - TWITTER: https://twitter.com/acotgreave - LINKEDI...

Picking the Right Metrics with James Mayfield (Transform.co)

September 16, 2021 14:40 - 51 minutes - 47 MB

Building trust into the metrics your company use to guide their decision making is a difficult task. Former Facebook and AirBnB Data Product Manager James Mayfield shares his insights into why focusing on the metrics is the right path to take to enable trust in your companies data. How to Connect with James: - COMPANY WEBSITE: https://transform.co/ - EMAIL: [email protected] Learn data skills at our academy and elevate your career. Start for free at https://ftdacademy.com/pod --- Sen...

Giving Computers Vision with Satya Mallick (OpenCV)

September 09, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours - 245 MB

Computer Vision is a popular field of Artificial Intelligence that enables applications such as facial recognition and self-driving cars. In this episode we hear from Dr. Satya Mallick who has been working in the field since it's birth on all the various aspect of Computer Vision and how you can learn it to break into the field of AI. How to Connect with Satya: - COMPANY WEBSITE: https://learnopencv.com/ - TWITTER: https://twitter.com/learnopencv - LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/s...

Streaming Data Using Spark with Dustin Vannoy

September 02, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 141 MB

Data engineering has historically involved extracting data from disperate sources, transforming it to a standard layout, and then loading it into a new database for analytics. Usually these data engineering pipeline jobs would run on a schedule such as nightly or weekly. In today's fastpaced high-tech world however the need for data closer to real-time, meaning when it was first generated, is higher than ever. In today's episode we hear from Dustin Vannoy who is a consultant and blogger in t...

Becoming Data Literate with Ben Jones (DataLiteracy.com)

August 26, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

A key ingredient missing in many organizations today is how to read and understand data. Ben Jones, founder of DataLiteracy.com, shares his insights into what Data Literacy is and how your company can benefit from increasing your level of it. How to Connect with Ben Jones: - TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DataRemix - LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrjones/ - COMPANY WEBSITE: https://dataliteracy.com/ References Mentioned in this Week's Episode: - The Visual Display of Quantitati...

Hiring a Chief Data Officer with Peter Nettesheim (Align BI)

August 19, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 113 MB

A Chief Data Officer is an easily misunderstood role. On today's show Peter Nettesheim helps us understand the role of a Chief Data Officer and what they can bring to your organization.  How to Connect with Peter: COMPANY WEBSITE - https://www.alignbi.com/ LINKEDIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peternettesheim/ EMAIL - [email protected] Learn data skills at our academy and elevate your career. Start for free at https://ftdacademy.com/pod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaste...

Best Languages for Data Science with Eric Stone (Flipside Crypto)

July 28, 2021 13:50 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MB

The languages you learn as a data scientist are important to the path your career will take. In this interview Eric Stone (head of Data Science at Flipside Crypto) shares his insights into what languages are popular and you should consider for your data science career. How to Connect with Eric: TWITTER: https://twitter.com/flipsidecrypto and https://twitter.com/theericstone COMPANY WEBSITE: https://www.flipsidecrypto.com/ Learn data skills at our academy and elevate your career. Start fo...

Engineering Data Products in Crypto Currency (Flipside Crypto)

July 28, 2021 13:50 - 1 hour - 165 MB

James Mission shares insights on how his new company is providing an analytics platform for crypto currencies and his journey to a director of data analytics.   Connect with James:  COMPANY WEBSITE: https://www.flipsidecrypto.com/  FLIPSIDE CRYPTO VELOCITY APP: https://app.flipsidecrypto.com/velocity FLIPSIDE CRYPTO DISCROD COMMUNITY: https://discord.gg/p792zukG Learn data skills at our academy and elevate your career. Start for free at https://ftdacademy.com/pod --- Send in a voice ...

Skills That Set Data Scientists Apart with Behfar Jahanshahi (Interworks)

July 28, 2021 13:49 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB

Behfar Jahanshahi shares his insights into building one of the most awarded data consulting companies in the world and how they hire differently. Connect with Behfar:  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/behfar/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/behfarj COMPANY WEBSITE: https://interworks.com/ Learn data skills at our academy and elevate your career. Start for free at https://ftdacademy.com/pod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ftdacademy/message

Trailer - Welcome to Free the Data Podcast!

July 28, 2021 13:27 - 45 seconds - 1.41 MB

Join me each week as I conduct conversations with people changing our world by advancing data analytics, data science and data engineering.   Learn data skills at our academy and elevate your career. Start for free at https://ftdacademy.com/pod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ftdacademy/message

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