Lights On Data Show

How do you put together a successful data strategy? Let's learn about the typical framework for a successful data strategy, its key pillars, and success factors.  To walk us through these we're joined by Dora Boussias, Director of Enterprise Architecture & Data Strategy.

Our today's guest is Susan Walsh, the Classification Guru, the Founder and Managing Director of The Classification Guru Ltd, and the author of "Between the Spreadsheets: Classifying and Fixing Dirty Data." In this episode we address: Tips on fixing dirty data;  The perfect date format;  Normalization, standardization, and taxonomies;  Procurement and spend data;  Mixing fruits...

Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms are motivated by optimization processes that we observe in nature, such as natural selection, species migration, bird swarms, human culture, and ant colonies. They are fascinating. Let's learn more about them from Marcello La Rocca, Senior Software Engineer and Author of "Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures".

How do you make your analytics strategy compliant to your privacy laws? How does PIPEDA, CCPA, GDPR, and so on influence how you engage with your current and potential customers? What are the differences between the privacy laws in Europe and North America and how do you respect all of them? How do privacy laws affect your analytics strategy? Maciej Zawadziński, CEO of PiwikPRO, is joining us on t...

Do you want to get started with autoML? Join us and Nathan George, Author and Author & Data Scientist at Tink What autoML is and what it is used for What environments autoML works with The projects/tasks recommended using autoML for Best practices and advice Plus, advice for those wanting to get into data science Don't forget to check out Nathan George's book on "Practical Data Science with Py...

Democracy is under a lot of strain because politicians are more distant from their constituents and mass media is relinquishing its role to keep politics in check, just to name a few. Should A.I. start taking on that role and aid our society? Join us and our guest, Kye Andersson - Chief Experience Officer & Partner at Canucci + A.I. Sweden, as we'll address this topic and go over: A.I. applica...

Maciej Zawadziński, CEO of PiwikPRO, is joining us on the Lights On Data Show to discuss: Why mapping the digital customer journey is important Example of a typical journey Best practices, tips and tricks Action items as a result of the mapping exercise

How about a quick intro into Natural Language Processing (NLP) for documents? Join this episode with our guest, Nina Hristozova, Data Scientist (AI & NLP) at Thomson Reuters. We'll learn more about NLPs and their applications, challenges, and potential future, but also their current usage in documents and text based formats.

Have you ever been impacted by bad data quality? Did you ever: Get the incorrect sum credited from your account? Not receive the package you were waiting for? Get your name misspelled? Well, it's probably because a crime was committed against that data. Join us on this Lights On Data show episode as Merrill Albert, Enterprise Data Leader, will share some mind-blowing stories of "Crimes Against Dat...

How do we choose to apply our limited energy and resources toward creating data capabilities to influence our business? With data leadership. Anthony Algmin, is founder and CEO of Algmin Data Leadership. He's joining us on this episode to discuss about  Data leadership Why it is needed Its synergy with data governance The notion of data value and his passion of cars

Superposition, entanglement, and interference. Join us on this episode as we're learning more about quantum computing and what the future holds for us. This episode's guest is Sahar Ben Rached. She is a Research Master's candidate in Nanotechnology at the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis. She is currently a Quantum Computing research intern at the IPE, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany...

For the first time since we've started our show, we've met in person to record this episode with the following data influencers: Kate Strachnyi (Founder of Datacated), Ben Taylor (Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot), Scott Taylor (The Data Whisperer), Christina Stathopoulos (Analytical Lead at Waze), and yours truly, Diana Andreea Firican, and George Firican. We talked about putting the lights on da...

A lot of companies are struggling with creating a data culture. A culture that would be characterized by data-driven decision making. A culture where data is truly treated as an asset and where data quality is everyone's reasonability. So as a company, how can you setup a data culture? A data culture such as TikTok's. Join this episode's guest, Saquiful Alam, that will address this very important...

Are you starting out in data science? Do you want to build your data science portfolio? Then don't miss this Lights On Data Show episode with our guest, Michael Galarnyk - Developer Relations at Anyscale. We will address: Why building a portfolio is important How can one address their lack of work experience Examples of work/projects to include or not to include in a portfolio Resume tips Networki...

How can the implementation of your data catalog reconcile IT and Business? Join us on this next Lights On Data Show, along with Laurent Dresse - Head of Consulting at DataGalaxy, and learn more about: The challenges that a disconnect between IT & Business bring How these issues can be addressed through a data catalog How a data catalog will help reconcile IT & the Business  The video...

Data is the most important asset in the organization. Should data then be treated data as a service or as a product? Join us and Greg Coquillo, Linkedin Top Voice 2020 for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence and Technology Manager at Amazon, as we'll address: How to treat data as a product What a data team should look like Why culture matters What are the characteristics of a good data plat...

Let's learn what a data governance maturity model is, what types are out there, and how you can measure your own maturity level - in particular with OvalEdge's. Let's get these insights from Sharad Varshney, CEO of OvalEdge.

Have you ever thought of tokenizing your skills, digital and physical assets? What is tokenization anyways?  Tooba Durraze, Lead of Growth Strategies and Digital Membership at the World Economic Forum, will address the: - Tokenization of economy - How you can tokenize your work - NFTs, tokenization case studies and more

Join our today's guest, Ben Taylor - Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot, as we'll talk about augmented intelligence and how AI and humans can work together. Plus interesting projects that include AI and lasers :).

Our guest, Joel Solloway - Partner at EventWorks4D will tackle the topic of holograms. What are they, what are their benefits, and of course, their applications. Step into the future and join us on this very captivating episode.

What are the four levels of analytics? What about data literacy? How do these tie in with the data culture and business strategy? Join this episode of the Lights On Data Show with our guest, Jordan Morrow - the Godfather of Data Literacy, and learn about all of this. Jordan is the Head of Data, Design, and Management Skills at Pluralsight, and the author of "Be Data Literate: The Data Literacy Ski...

Learn how to seek, solicit, & speak data (and 2 hidden Ss). Plus, how should you align your data strategies accordingly?  We are joined by Kimberly Herrington, Data Journalist & Creator of #BuffaloBusinessIntelligence.

Data literacy is the ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information. I think in today's world any organization needs to invest in their employees to gain this ability. But how should that be done? Join us and Sharad Varshney, OvalEdge CEO, to learn how a Business Glossary can help with Data Literacy. Yes, a business glossary - the gift that keeps on giving.

Do you want to hear great stories on how data drives decision making? Then join this episode of the Lights On Data Show with international keynote speaker, Dr. Joe Perez. Our guest has more than 35 years of experience to the stage as an IT/higher ed professional. He has served as a Business Intelligence Specialist at NC State University and is currently serving as Senior Systems Analyst at th...

Data scientist, statistician, podcaster, and an ARTIST of data science. Join us for this live Q&A episode with a thought leader in the data science space, Harpreet Sahota. If you've joined any of his open office hours for data science you will understand why he's such a valued mentor of over 2,500 up-and-coming data scientists. Harpreet is a data science unicorn with strong business acumen, st...