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Kamal Hathi on Data Culture, Karate, and Being Data Driven

On this week’s Data Driven, Frank and Andy are honored to have Kamal Hathi on the show.  Kamal Hathi is a General Manager at Microsoft.  As the co-founder of Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar Analytics and Business Intelligence products, today Kamal leads the team that is responsible for the end-to-end strategy, design and engineering of Power BI.  The data analytics and visualization…

*DataPoint* Data Science and Theme Parks

Andy is out and about with his family today at King’s Dominion and he pauses to reflect on how data analytics is used at amusement parks. Links mentioned: https://themeparkanalysis.com/ http://dataconomy.com/2016/06/three-times-big-data-made-amusement-parks-better/ http://www.analyticbridge.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/amusement-park-analytics-increasing-both-fun-and-roi      

Darren Lacy on Making the Jump to Data Science from BI and Disneyland for Geeks

  Links: Kaggle Titanic data set – https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic/data ([14:20]) Sponsor: Audible.com http://audibletrial.com/DataDriven Sponsor: Enterprise Data & Analytics http://entdna.com   Notable Quotes: PowerPoint real-time translation ([8:00]) The Hype Cycle ([10:45]) On reaching 100% accuracy… ([12:30]) Advice on how to make the jump from BI to Data Science ([25:45]) Which to learn first: Python or R? ([27:20]) Supporting a family as…

*DataScienceDaily* Volvo Partners Up to Make Self-Driving Cars, Data Science Podcasts, and Oxford Startup Gets Series A Funding

Here are all the links to stories mention in today’s podcast. Data Science Daily Show Notes @jackverr54 #selfDrivingCars Volvo and Autoliv aim to sell self-driving cars with #Nvidia AI tech by 2021 http://tcrn.ch/2th2bX6  via @techcrunch @Ronald_vanLoon  Best Big Data, Data Science, Data Mining, and Machine Learning podcasts | #BigData #DataMining #RT http://bit.ly/1InIKHt @carrolltoonz Create a…