For the Love of Data

For the Love of Data


Latest Episodes

E035 – Your Data and an Announcement
December 02, 2018

Announcement: Celebrating FTLOD’s 3 year anniversary this month Covered a diverse range of topics from BBQ and chocolate to alogorithms and graph databases Future episodes will be much more ad-hoc and when I come across a topic that is interesting Plea...

E034 – Using Data to Make Perfect Chocolate – Part 2
October 31, 2018

In the second part of this two-part episode, we do a data deep dive into a decadent vat of chocolate. We talk about various stats and data with Brian Mikiten, former process engineer and founder of Casa Chocolates in San Antonio, TX.

E033 – Using Data to Make Perfect Chocolate – Part 1
October 24, 2018

In the first part of this two-part episode, we do a data deep dive into a decadent vat of chocolate. We talk about history and how to make chocolate. In part two, we will talk about various stats and data with Brian Mikiten,

E032 – 2018 State of DevOps Report
September 30, 2018

Intro Greg’s Background Intro to DevOps Tools you’ve used Intro to the report & this year vs. previous years Feels more general and high-level than some of the previous reports (no MTTR mentioned for instance) Who took the survey? Surveyed over 30,

E031 – Data Collaboration with Cursor
August 30, 2018

Learn about Cursor, a new platform for collaboration around data, hosted platforms and BI artifacts. I sat down with Adam Weinstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Cursor, to learn about the platform. About Cursor Cursor offers a data search and analytics hub t...

E030 – July 2018 News Roundup
July 30, 2018

July 2018 News Roundup This month’s episode is a roundup of news from a variety of sources covering three main topics: BI / Dataviz Tools Databases and Platforms Tools and Frameworks Note: Most of the text extracts below are direct quotations from new ...

E29 – Is Data The New Oil?
June 29, 2018

Is Data the New Oil? Concept originated by Clive Humby, the British mathematician who established Tesco’s Clubcard loyalty program. Humby highlighted the fact that, although inherently valuable, data needs processing,

E028 – Bimodal BI and Data Virtualization
May 27, 2018

Today we’re back with another guest from the Netherlands. I’m not sure what it is about the Dutch, but they’ve been on a roll with some helpful thought leadership when it comes to data. My guest is Rick van der Lans, a highly-respected analyst,

E027 – The Data Quadrant
April 28, 2018

My guest in today’s episode is Ronald Damhof (@ronalddamhof), the creator of the Data Quadrant. This quadrant is a sense-making framework in the complex word of data that enables a common frame of reference between managers,

E026 – The Four Types of Automation
March 30, 2018

Introductory Product Models: Only partner implementations (BluePrism) Limited Features (WorkFusion) Customer Revenue Limited (UI Path) Single License (Softomotive) Music Deep Sky Blue by Graphiqs Gr