*DataPoint* Do You Need a PhD Do Be a Data Scientist?
*DataPoint* Brian Moran from DBBest Talks About Democratization of Data
*DataPoint* Live at Inspire
Today, Frank is in DC at the Microsoft Inspire conference, which used to be called the Worldwide Partner Conference. It’s where Microsoft gathers partners from around the world and share what their vision and priorities are for the upcoming year. There are a lot of interesting people in town and it’s our plan to get them…
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…
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…