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DataPoint SSIS and Containers

By Andy Leonard | 04/04/2019

Andy has been working on a way to test SSIS package execution in Windows containers using the SSIS Catalog. That’s a lot of moving parts, which made for a lot of blog posts. Watch the video from the Data Driven TV Facebook page: Read the series at andyleonard.blog: Part 0 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3…

DataPoint AI Will Impact Every Business

By Frank La Vigne | 04/02/2019

In this Data Point, Frank ponders the wider impact on jobs and businesses related to self-driving cars that are not immediately obvious. From driving schools to truck stops, everyone will feel the change. The question then becomes: how can we prepare the workforce for the impending upheaval in the job market? Will teaching to the test…

DataPoint Chuck E. Cheese is Watching You

By Frank La Vigne | 04/01/2019

In this DataPoint, Frank discovers that Chuck E. Cheese is tracking game playing statistics with the use of RFID cards and how to look up your own data with their in store kiosks.

DataPoint The Eve of Disruption

By Frank La Vigne | 03/21/2019

While grabbing coffee at a recently renovated McDonald’s, Frank ponders the future of work: both low-skill and higher skill work. There’s going to be no hiding from this: we are truly on the Eve of Disruption, where AI will impact everyone everywhere. It’s not all gloom and doom and there might be a strategy to…

DataPoint Talking About AI, Ethics, and Transparency at a Super Secret Event

By Data Driven Team | 02/06/2019 |

This week, Frank is at (near) Microsoft’s headquarters just outside Seattle, Washington, attending internal, possibly even secret, training. In this impromptu Data Point, he chats with fellow attendees about AI, Ethics, and the ever-present Unintended Consequences of technological advancement.