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Episode 11: Small Data

August 6, 2019 Matthew Wittemeier Big Data, Business Intelligence, Small Data 11:23

We’re excited to bring you our first buzzITtalk brief, a shorter version of the podcast intended to tackle emerging buzzwords quickly giving you the 4-1-1 on the buzzword in question, in about 10 minutes or less. We couldn’t think of a more appropriate buzzword to deliver our first short episode then “small data”. Our guest, Nick Chubb from Intelligent Cargo Systems/Thetius takes us through what small data is, how it’s about humans and not just technology and gives us a practical example from the shipping industry.

Show Notes

Buzzword introduction (00:24)

John Steinbeck quote (00:48)

What is Small Data

Introduction to Nick Chubb (01:46)

Big data vs small data (02:39)

Digitization of manual processes (04:19)

The Human Element

Improving the human experience (04:57)

Small Data, Big Insights

Terminal performance insights (05:20)

Data shadows (05:58)

Small data, a solution to big data’s problems (06:22)

Wrap Up

Technology is a challenge (07:54)

Humans adaptation of technology is a challenge (09:04)

Closing thought from Steinbeck (09:36)

Closing credits (10:27)

 

Further Readings and Background Research

What is Small data? (Techopedia)

Small Data: The Next Big Thing (Forbes)

Small Data vs Big Data Infographic (EDUCBA)

7 Tips for Dealing With Small Data (Towards Data Science)

Small Data by Martin Lindstrom (Amazon)

 

Guest Speaker Details

Nick Chubb from Intelligent Cargo Systems/Thetius

 

 

Episode 02: Optimized Decision Making with Analytics

February 15, 2018 David Weaver Analytics 34:06

I recently sat down with Prof. Dr. Marco Lübbecke, currently a professor and the chair for the Operations Research department at the RWTH Aachen (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen) – the largest technical university in Germany.

I invited Marco on the show to talk about the enormous buzzword “analytics” – or “big data analytics” – These words are being thrown around in news stories and corporate updates around the globe: descriptive analytics, diagnostic analytics, predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics.

In this episode, Marco provides some helpful definitions and practical examples for each type of analytics and notes where companies can benefit most from the data they are collecting.

In the previous episode, we heard from Dr. Fraud, who mentioned some recent research revealing that in the next six months there is going to be more data available than in all of human history. The big question is what are companies doing with all of this data – Or what can companies do with all of this data? That is where these analytics buzzwords are coming into play, and we address these questions in episode 2 of buzzITtalk:

Show Notes

Marco Lübbecke introduces himself and focus of research (2:21)

Why studying mathematics is a great idea (4:17)

Different Types of analytics (8:00)

Descriptive analytics defined (10:33)

Diagnostic analytics defined (12:04)

Predictive analytics defined (13:20)

Prescriptive analytics defined (15:47)

Brief talk about cognitive analytics (20:55)

Does prescriptive analytics make better decisions than humans? (22:00)

Which type of analytics is receiving the most attention – where should companies be focusing their attention? (24:55)

What are some areas where prescriptive analytics has been proven most successful and where can it not be applied at all? (28:29)

What applications will we see in the future based on prescriptive analytics? (31:50)

Connect with Marco Lübbecke on Twitter to continue the discussion on analytics, or leave a comment below!

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Episode 0: buzzITtalk Pilot

January 18, 2018 David Weaver Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, General, Machine Learning 0:10:04

Welcome everyone to the pilot episode of buzzITtalk – the podcast where we talk buzzwords and the latest trends within the tech industry – with the goal of helping businesses and decision makers go beyond the buzz.

In this episode I take you through some basic definitions so we are all on the same page when it comes to “buzz” “buzzwords” “IT” and the “Tech Industry”

Furthermore, I cover the overall goals we want to reach with the podcast.

As a quick text form summary:

Our aim is to create fun, entertaining, and most importantly, informative content in order to enable cross industry learning in the tech space. We will take the latest IT Buzzwords and put them to the test as far as actual business value is concerned. We will accomplish this by interviewing tech experts from various industries.

Hopefully I was able to peak your interest a bit in this pilot episode –  Thanks for tuning in! If you have any questions for me, feel free to send an email to buzzittalk@gmail.com – or and reach out to me on one of the various social media channels I have listed on the “show team” page. The same holds true if you are interested in being a guest on the show. If you have IT buzzword you would like to share your thoughts on, let me know!

Additional show notes:

Format of Podcast (1:54)

Buzz, Buzzword, IT Defined (2:45)

Goal of the Podcast (5:07)