Episode 116

Opensource software is mainstream. But opensource data? Yeah, and it can be found in a datamart near you. The thinking is, if you make your data freely available for all to use; all will improve it. It will be made more consumable, you will get feedback on how to use it and perhaps counterintuitively, you will learn how to value it.
Listen to this podcast (or read the transcript), where I speak with Adam Mayer about applying the opensource ethos to data within the data exchange

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Episode 115

One of data science’s dirty little secrets is the time spent data wrangling, that is accessing the data and then transforming it into a form compatible with your data tools and chosen analytical and learning models. Most agree this can take a full 75-80% of data science time.
Listen to this podcast (or read the transcript), where I speak with Adam Mayer about data access and form when shopping at your local datamart

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Episode 114

To truly use the Internet of Things in its fullest capacity – more than connected and more than smart – we look beyond our internal sources of data and venture onto the Internet to seek out external sources of data that when mashed with our sensor data, creates more valuable information. This can be done piecemeal by connecting directly to microservices, but a new source has popped up lately.
Listen to this podcast (or read the transcript), where I speak with Carl Rodrigues about data marketplaces and how to shop there for value

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