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Making Data Simple

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Hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales at IBM. Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on leadership, big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Making Data Simple episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Making Data Simple for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Making Data Simple episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Host Al Martin, IBM VP of Hybrid Data Management & Client Success, and Sam Lightstone, CTO for Data, IBM Fellow & Master Inventor, present their Kansas City Techweek keynote. They go over what it means to make data ready for AI, become data driven and acquire growth. They deliver key industry insights to drive performance in a way that is easily understandable, avoiding the jargon. Be sure to follow along with presentation slides attached below.
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00:00 - Download and follow along with the presentation slides here.

00:00 - Check us out on YouTube and SoundCloud.

00:10 - Connect with Producer Steve Moore on LinkedIn and Twitter.

00:15 - Connect with Producer Liam Seston on LinkedIn and Twitter.

00:20 - Connect with Producer Rachit Sharma on LinkedIn.

00:25 - Connect with Host Al Martin on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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This week host Al Martin invites Shadi Copty, who is the Executive Director for AI Tools & Runtimes at IBM. In this episode he talks about automation, tools and multiple IBM AI technologies.
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Show notes:

00:00 - Check out "Making Data Simple" on YouTube and SoundCloud.

00:10 - Connect with Producer Steve Moore on LinkedIn and Twitter.

00:15 - Connect with Producer Liam Seston on LinkedIn and Twitter.

00:20 - Connect with Producer Rachit Sharma on LinkedIn.

00:25 - Connect with Host Al Martin on LinkedIn and Twitter.

00:40 - Connect with Shadi Copty on LinkedIn.

04:20 What is Data Science?

08:00 What is Watson Studio?

21:45 What is OpenScale?

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

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*NOTE: This episode was recorded before the COVID-19 outbreak. Any comments made in this episode on travel are no longer relevant or took place during ordered quarantines. Please stay home and be safe.*

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [[email protected]] and tell us why you should be next.

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Back for part 2 of his Making Data Simple series is Jad Chehlawi, CEO and Founder of TelosTouch. This episode follows up to part 1, where Jad explains how TelosTouch is aiming to redefine the client experience of investing. This episode focuses more on the emotional challenges that frequently alter decisions and how to better account for those changes.

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TelosTouch

Show Notes

03:47 - Check out these 6 hacks for fighting financial procrastination.

10:06 - The missing link. Learn about the void TelosTouch seeks to fill here.

17:37 - Need to get up to speed on natural language processing (NLP)? Find out more here.

25:49 - Learn more about modern portfolio theory here.

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Producer Liam Seston - LinkedIn.

Producer Lana Cosic - LinkedIn.

Producer Meighann Helene - LinkedIn.

Producer Kate Brown - LinkedIn.

Producer Allison Proctor - LinkedIn.

Producer Mark Simmonds - LinkedIn.

Producer Michael Sestak - LinkedIn.

Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

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Welcome to season 4 of Making Data Simple! We are starting this year with a bang, as it also marks our 100th episode anniversary! For this special podcast, we have invited on John Cohn as our guest. John is an IBM Fellow, engineer, maker-advocate, and commonly known as the "mad scientist". He is best known for his appearance on the Discovery Channel show, The Colony. John discusses his experience on the show, his career with IBM thus far, along with plans for the future. Stay tuned for part 2 coming next week.

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LinkedIn

Passion//Project Article

Twitter

Show Notes

5:40 - Watch The Colony here.

27:08 - Learn more about Burning Man here.

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Producer Liam Seston - LinkedIn.

Producer Lana Cosic - LinkedIn.

Producer Meighann Helene - LinkedIn.

Producer Mark Simmonds - LinkedIn.

Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

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Matthias Funke and Thomas Chu lead the team shaping IBM's strategy for hybrid data management. They join host Al Martin for a deep dive into trends around data management across cloud environments — from private, to public, to multicloud. Matthias and Thomas each started as software developers in the trenches of data and analytics, and they bring that knowledge of fundamentals to their work with large organizations in the grip of rapid change.
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00:00 - Check us out on YouTube and SoundCloud!

00:10 - Connect with Producer Steve Moore on LinkedIn & Twitter

00:15 - Connect with Producer Liam Seston on LinkedIn & Twitter

00:20 - Connect with Producer Rachit Sharma on LinkedIn

00:25 - Connect with Host Al Martin on LinkedIn & Twitter

01:25 - Connect with Matthias Funke on LinkedIn

02:29 - Connect with Thomas Chu on LinkedIn

10:02 - Prepare your data for AI.

19:25 - What is data efficiency?

22:01 - What is cloud computing?

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

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Making Data Simple - Al and Nancy discuss Data and AI and its impact on sports
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Abstract

Hosted by Al Martin, VP, Data and AI Expert Services and Learning at IBM, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.

This week on Making Data Simple, we have Nancy Hensley, Nancy is currently the Chief Marketing and Product Officer for Stats Perform. Nancy was the Chief Digital Officer at IBM.

Show Notes
1:37 – Nancy’s bio

3:10 - Are we talking Money Ball?

5:52 - On Base percentage

7:08 – Analyse examples

10:02 – Do you control the data?

11:24 – Out there statistics

14:12 - Can analytics go to far?

17:35 – Real time analysis

18:45 – Covid and sports

21:15 – Your role in sports betting

22:50 – What’s the most fascinating thing you’ve learned?

25:23 – What’s the future?
Website - Stats Perform

Money Ball

Stats Perform - Twitter

Bill James – Baseball Abstract

The Analyst


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Producer Kate Brown - LinkedIn.
Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn.
Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

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Hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.

This week on Making Data Simple, we have Cactus Raazi is the founder and former CEO of Elefant Inc., now a part of Exos Financial, which focused on building smarter marketplaces through AI-powered pricing. Cactus led Elefant Inc. to success working with a brilliant team of engineers and marketplace experts focused on improving the pricing, transparency, and efficiency of the bond market. In more than thirty years in sales, Cactus has developed an acute sense of how price affects the commercial transaction (and how we get it wrong). He has a graduate degree in business analytics from NYU, and lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Show Notes
5:45 – How do you make the connection and go start to Price?

9:20 – What should I be doing differently

16:25 – Topic of price

17:38 - How do you define price?

19:53 – How are prices set today?

26:27 – How do you track customers?

27:39 – Personalized pricing

Cactus Raazi - LinkedIn

Cactus Raazi’s book Price

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Producer Kate Mayne- LinkedIn.
Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn.
Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

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Hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.

This week on Making Data Simple, we have Orr Danon CEO at Hailo Technologies. Hailo has developed a breakthrough deep learning microprocessor based on a novel architecture which enables edge devices to run sophisticated deep learning applications that could previously run only on the cloud.

Orr has a decade of software and engineering experience from the Israel Defense Forces’ elite intelligence unit. Orr coordinated many of the unit’s largest and most complex interdisciplinary projects, ultimately earning the Israel Defense Award granted by Israel’s president, and the Creative Thinking Award, bestowed by the head of Israel’s military intelligence. Orr holds an M.Sc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tel Aviv University and a B.Sc in Physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Show Notes
4:28 – Is Edge a hardware solution?

11:45 – Where do you think the fastest growth in the Edge is going to be?

14:01 – What makes your AI chip different?

17:10 – Anything else in your secret sauce that makes you different?

18:28 – If I am a customer what do I do for proof of technology? And do your chips work together at the Edge?

21:35 – What about security?

22:50 – Tell us about the data?

26:40 – Where will you be in 5 years?

Hailo website


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Producer Kate Brown - LinkedIn.
Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn.
Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

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Hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.

This week on Making Data Simple, we have Lillian Pierson. Lillian is CEO of Data Mania and she supports data professionals to becoming world data leaders and entrepreneurs. Lillian started Data Mania in 2012, Lillian has had 1.2 million people take her courses or read her book.

Show Notes
3:37 – How did you make your transition to Data Mania?

8:20 – What is your Brand now?

9:32 – If I contact Lillian @ Data Mania what will I walk away with?

14:01 – Is it methodology or career coach or is it both?

16:35 – Where did you get your experience to put people in these buckets?

19:08 – Do you provide one on one services?

22:48 – Is your team worldwide?

24:36 – What differentiates your book from another?

26:48 – Who is Data Mania targeting?

28:32 – Where do I start?

Email - [email protected]

Data-mania

Data Superhero Quiz

Data Science For Dummies

Lillian Pierson - LinkedIn

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Producer Kate Brown - LinkedIn.
Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn.
Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

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On this episode, host Al Martin welcomes Michael Sestak, who is a creative media director at IBM. He and Al discuss his role in-depth. Listen to learn what sources of inspiration Michael draws from, and how data and the creative process collide.

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Check us out on:

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00:00 - Check us out on YouTube and SoundCloud.

00:10 - Connect with Producer Steve Moore on LinkedIn and Twitter.

00:15 - Connect with Producer Liam Seston on LinkedIn and Twitter.

00:20 - Connect with Producer Rachit Sharma on LinkedIn.

00:25 - Connect with Host Al Martin on LinkedIn and Twitter.

00:40 - Connect with Michael Sestak on LinkedIn.

07:30 - Project Management.

12:00 - UStream IBM.

20:00 - Future of Video with Watson.

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How many episodes does Making Data Simple have?

Making Data Simple currently has 395 episodes available.

What topics does Making Data Simple cover?

The podcast is about Blockchain, Entrepreneurship, Podcasts, Big Data, Technology, Business and Data Science.

What is the most popular episode on Making Data Simple?

The episode title 'Kansas City Keynote - Making Data Simple [Season 3 - Episode 2]' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Making Data Simple?

The average episode length on Making Data Simple is 38 minutes.

How often are episodes of Making Data Simple released?

Episodes of Making Data Simple are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Making Data Simple?

The first episode of Making Data Simple was released on Sep 19, 2018.

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