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Media Query Source: Part 37 The Data Chief (ThoughtSpot podcast)My biggest data priority this year (2022)Delivery of flagship data platformLargest dep

Note: unfortunately for the first time, I withdrew my response from consideration after discussing further with the Deloitte communications team. As I explained to folks at The Data Chief, while my response was generic, some uncertainty had subsequently been introduced as to whether the details I shared were permissible, and

Media Query Source: Part 35 CMSWire (US digital magazine)Synthetic data & how it's used in workplaceTest data that reflects prod data propertiesEntire

The responses I provided to a media outlet on February 9, 2022: Media: What is Synthetic data and does it have a digital workplace use? Gfesser: Synthetic data is a type of test data that is intended to reflect the statistical properties of real production data. Because of this, synthetic

Community Comment: Part 12

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6872288942620774400?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6872288942620774400%2C6873193451886825472%29 Chief Consulting Officer at Investment Management Firm: I've come to the conclusion that the working world is roughly

Media Query Source: Part 34 MSDynamicsWorld (US digital magazine)Azure Data Box family of productsCounterpart to AWS Snow family of productsData ingre

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 27, 2022: Media: What are the biggest gaps in Data Box capabilities, if any? Gfesser: The Azure Data Box family of products is essentially used to get data into Azure, focusing on storage optimized hardware. In contrast, the AWS Snow

Community Comment: Part 11

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6852656686390358016?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6852656686390358016%2C6852961081292328960%29 Principal at Data Analytics Firm: Two months ago I saved a startup client $15,000 a year on their Snowflake

Community Comment: Part 10

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6850577708255117312?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6850577708255117312%2C6850714748086968321%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6850577708255117312%2C6852606305358659584%29 Senior Data Scientist at Amazon: The goal is never to

Community Comment: Part 9

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6845703181511471105?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6845703181511471105%2C6846373628813066240%29 CEO of Insights & Data at Global Technology Consultancy: Data isn't oil. At least not anymore. Data is

Media Query Source: Part 33 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); Hadoop vs Spark: An an-depth big data framework comparison

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * Apache Hadoop & Apache Spark * Overlap can exist between installations * Performance & use cases My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (May 7, 2021). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article. The

Community Comment: Part 8

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6764517635876040704?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6764517635876040704%2C6766303415871041537%29 Head of Experimentation at Social Media Platform: We should re-title “data cleaning” as “understanding the data”. Why? 1. It’s

New Book Review: "Learning Spark (Second Edition)"

New book review for Learning Spark (Second Edition), by Jules S. Damji, Brooke Wenig, Tathagata Das, and Denny Lee, O'Reilly, 2020, reposted here: Copy provided by Databricks at Spark + AI Summit 2020. The foreword and preface to this book comment that an update to the first edition, published