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Following your local happiness gradient - Dr. Catherine Williams

This episode features an interview with Dr. Catherine Williams, Global Head of IQ at Qualtrics, an experience management software platform. Catherine has extensive background in data science and quantitative analytics. Prior to Qualtrics, Catherine served as Chief Data Scientist and Chief Data and Marketplace Officer at AppNexus and Xandr, which is part of AT&T. Catherine holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Washington. She has also held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford and Columbia Universities. On this episode, Catherine discusses growing a machine learning approach to unstructured data, using data to get to the “why” of customer behavior, and following your local happiness gradient.

The Data Cloud & Public Sector With Deloitte

Welcome to Data Cloud Now, where we are dedicated to illustrating how the Data Cloud is pushing the possible forward, each and every day. In this episode we are exploring the impact it’s having within the public sector. Explore the impact the Data Cloud is having within the Public Sector with special guests Deloitte’s Monica McEwen & Frank Farrall along with Snowflake’s Jeff Frazier.

Moving to Log Analytics for BigQuery export users

If you’ve already centralized your log analysis on BigQuery as your single pane of glass for logs & events…congratulations! With the introduction of Log Analytics (Public Preview), something great is now even better. It leverages BigQuery while also reducing your costs and accelerating your time to value with respect to exporting and analyzing your Google Cloud logs in BigQuery.

How to build a self-service BI strategy

Think about the times you've wished you had more insight into your business data. Or all of the times you wished you could answer questions about your business performance without waiting for someone else to get back to you. Gone are the days when businesses rely solely on IT staff to provide reports and analytics. With self-service business intelligence (BI), users can create their own reports, dashboards, and data visualizations without relying on IT help.

What Challenges Are Hindering the Success of Your Data Lake Initiative?

Conventional databases are no longer the appropriate solution in a world where data volume is growing every second. Many modern businesses are adopting big data technologies like data lakes to counter data volume and velocity. Data lake infrastructures such as Apache Hadoop are designed to handle data in large capacities. These infrastructures offer benefits such as data replication for enhanced protection and multi-node computing for faster data processing.

Ep 59: New Zealand's Crown Research Institute CDAO, Jan Sheppard on Treating Data as a Treasure

Treating data as a treasure is a foundational principle for Jan Sheppard, the Chief Data and Analytics officer at New Zealand’s Crown Research Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR.) This agency leads ongoing research in public health, environmental health, and forensics for the country of New Zealand. Like many other CDAOs, her role is relatively new. But the unique values she applies to data can be traced back many hundreds of years to the indigenous Maori people of her country. Through her work, Jan recognizes the profound impact data can have on people and their environments for generations to come.

Get Ready for the Next Generation of DataOps Observability

I was chatting with Sanjeev Mohan, Principal and Founder of SanjMo Consulting and former Research Vice President at Gartner, about how the emergence of DataOps is changing people’s idea of what “data observability” means. Not in any semantic sense or a definitional war of words, but in terms of what data teams need to stay on top of an increasingly complex modern data stack.