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Brad Llewellyn on Statistics, Data Science, R, CBIG, Gaming, and Vanilla Ice

Frank and Andy speak with a real, live unicorn (data scientist), Brad Llewellyn.

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Notable Quotes:

Movie Quote – Star Wars: A New Hope ([1:55])
Bruce Lee ([2:20])
Book reference: Unicorns Among Us ([3:00])
CBIG – the Charlotte BI Group ([6:45])
Azure Machine Learning ([7:45])
Is Data Science only for super-nerds? ([12:50])
H2O’s Driverless AI ([13:40])
On Automation… ([14:25])
On Predicsis.ai… ([15:12])
On Amazon Machine Learning… ([15:45])
“Why is the ‘why’ important to you?” ([17:00])
Game reference: The Incredible Machine ([17:30])
Statistical terms ([19:15])
Microsoft SQL Server R Services ([21:12])
Movie reference: The Blues Brothers ([22:25])
“Python started around 1991.” – Frank ([24:17])
Video: Trapping a self-driving car ([26:20])
Vanilla Ice reference ([27:50])
Movie paraphrase: I, Robot ([28:10])

About the author, Data Driven Team

The Data Driven team is the dynamic duo of Frank La Vigne and Andy Leonard.

Frank La Vigne is a software engineer and UX geek who saw the light about Data Science at an internal Microsoft Data Science Summit in 2016. Now, he wants to share his passion for the Data Arts with the world.

Andy Leonard is a self-described Data Philosopher who literally lives in Farmville. No, not the game, the actual town. He slings code and manages data.