National Cheesecake Day!
June 30, 2016 is National Cheesecake Day, a likely commercially driven holiday to which I, for one, am happy to fall victim. Adam's PB Cup Fudge Ripple is one of my favorites and also one of the worst (go figure).
History (#4)
Believed to have originated around 2,000 BC in Greece
Was served to athletes in first Olympic games as a source of energy
Original recipe, documented in 230 AD was: mashed cheese, honey, flour heated into a mass
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005 For the Love of Fireworks – For the Love of Data
News:
Big Data falls off the hype cycle: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/big-data-falls-off-the-hype-cycle
Tableau 10 in beta:
http://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2016/4/10-reasons-join-tableau-10-beta-53165
http://www.tableau.com/coming-soon
Fireworks!
NOTE: Overall, statistics are hard to follow across sites and even different reports from the same groups.
2015 Consumption Statistics:
Consumption: 260.7 Million lbs. (Consumer), 24.6 million ...
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004 The History of Hadoop – For the Love of Data
Let me set the stage for you...
It's 2003: Chicago just won the Oscar for Best Picture and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the top selling video game. Apple iPods still have scroll wheels and iTunes just started selling music for the first time. From a tech standpoint, Windows XP is all the rage as the latest Windows OS and folks with a lot of money to spend are buying PCs with a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz processor, 512MB of RAM (or maybe up to 2GB max), and an 80GB hard drive. Oracle just released v...
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003 The Data of Taxes – For the Love of Data
Huge thanks to @Deepak90Mittal for hanging out with me on this episode!
News Prologue:
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for BI is out - overhauled methodology, Oracle is out; Tableau and Microsoft (PowerBI) reign supreme!
https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2XXET8P&ct=160204&st=sb)
SQL Server on Linux! = millions of geeks rejoice and it may spell the end of Windows in the data center.
http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/
http://w...
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002 What Hot Models Look Like – For the Love of Data
Summary:
Hot models...data models that is. A survey of many of the most popular data modeling approaches in the news today. Third Normal Form, Anchor Modeling, Data Vault, Data Lakes, Data Swamps. What do they do well, what do they do badly, and which is the one true data model to rule them all? (Hint: it depends, as usual.)
Third Normal Form (3NF) (a.k.a. Naomi Sims)
History: E.F. Codd defined 3NF in 1971 while working at IBM.
Basic Concept:
"The Key, the Whole Key, and Nothing but the K...
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001 The Data of Church – For the Love of Data
Churches have a wealth of data that other organizations could only dream about--a weekly stream of attendees and donors who also participate in a wide variety of activities around the organization. In this episode, I sit down with Glen Brechner, the Executive Director of Chase Oaks Church in Plano. Chase Oaks is one of the top twenty churches in the DFW metroplex and is in the top 20% of megachurches in the US.
We discuss how they track member participation and donation information, how they ...
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000 Introducing “For the Love of Data with Robert Furr” (and what it means for you)
Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence... how do I keep track of what is going on in this ever-expanding technology realm? "For the Love of Data" is a monthly podcast covering data, big data, huge data, tiny data, analytics, and business intelligence trends across the industry. Join the discussion, write a review, or give us your feedback on our site.
This introductory episode covers the podcast's format, why I want to do it (because I love data!), and who may benefit from listening.
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