Be wiser than 98% of the world with this episode, continuing last week's conversation. More on GenAI, Hallucinations, RAG, Use Cases, LLMs, SLMs and costs with Armand Ruiz, Director watsonx Client Engineering and John Webb, Principal Client Engineering.

Let's talk data transformation and what makes a great
seller with Co-founder and CEO of Coalesce,  Armon
Petrossian.
 
As more companies move to the cloud the
weakness in data transformation is becoming profound.

• 01:15 Meet Armon Petrossian
• 02:21 The problem in being data driven
• 04:28 Introducing Coalesce
• 07:53 Automation defined
• 09:56 The ETL to ELT shift
• 11:54 Typical customer use case
• 12:55 The Coalesce differentiator
• 16:18 Proof of value
• 24:39 Column metadata
• 25:40 Data transformation inhibitors
• 28:17 The future
• 31:52 What makes a great seller

LinkedIn:
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/armonpetrossian/
Website:

https://coalesce.io/
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Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

Understanding Search, GenAI, RAG methodology, and vector databases with Nixon Cheaz, Engineering Lead at IBM's Experience Engine.  

• 02:24 Meet Nixon Cheaz
• 04:32 Search without Google
• 06:35 Experience Engine
• 08:30 Elements of Good Search
• 12:46 Search Data Source
• 15:36 GenAI Use Cases and Vector DBs 
• 19:40 Foundational Models?
• 22:07 Impact of Vector DBs
• 25:38 IBM Public Content DB
• 28:02 Use Cases
• 29:58 IBM Technologies
• 32:54 RAG
• 40:12 Health is Wealth

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nixon-cheaz

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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. 

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

A Data Science level set in 2024.  This episode is a live recording that talks to 

Distinguished Engineers at IBM from Client Engineering, Finance, and 

Research with Rachel Reinitz, Suj Perepa, and "Beware of simple questions" Darrell Reimer, respectively.  Pardon just a bit of sound quality issues. 

• 00:16 The Field of Data Science
• 00:50 Meet Rachel, Suj, and Darrell
• 03:37 What is Data Science Today?
• 07:00 Data Science Skills
• 10:25 How has Data Science Changed
• 12:07 A Day in the Life
• 14:25 AI Engineers?
• 23:45 Fake News and Cost
• 30:36 What's Next?
• 33:27 Too Much GenAI?
• 36:49 Low Barrier Risks
• 39:29 Deep Science vs Deep Business
• 42:17 For Fun

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rreinitz, https://www.linkedin.com/in/sperepa/
linkedin.com/in/darrellreimer

Website: https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-ai/foundation-models

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at
almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

More on GenAI, Hallucinations, RAG, Use Cases, LLMs, SLMs and costs with Armand Ruiz, Director watsonx Client Engineering and John Webb, Principal Client Engineering.  With this and the previous episode you'll be wiser on AI than 98% of the world.

• 00:12 Hallucinations
• 02:33 RAG Differentiation
• 06:41 Why IBM in AI
• 09:23 Use Cases
• 11:02 The GenAI Resume
• 13:37 watson.x 
• 15:40 LLMs
• 17:51 Experience Counts
• 20:03 AI that Surprises
• 23:46 AI Skills
• 26:47 Switching LLMs
• 27:13 The Cost and SLMs
• 28:21 Prompt Engineering
• 29:16 For Fun

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/armand-ruiz, linkedin.com/in/john-webb-686136127 Website: https://www.ibm.com/client-engineering

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Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

Let's go deep on GenAI, Foundational Models, and LLMs with Armand Ruiz, Director watsonx Client Engineering and John Webb, Principal Client Engineering.  Get a candid view on what is happening in the industy today.

• 01:40 Meet Armand Ruiz
• 05:09 Meet John Webb
• 06:43 The Client Engineering Practice
• 07:51 GenAI
• 11:50 IBM's AI Approach 13:50 GenAi in the Enterprise 15:47 Where to Start?
• 18:10 RAG Method
• 19:11 IBM's Differentiation
• 21:25 AI Regulation
• 24:22 LLM versus Smaller Models

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/armand-ruiz, linkedin.com/in/john-webb-686136127 Website: https://www.ibm.com/client-engineering

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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. 

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

Ronen Dar, Co-Founder & CTO at Run:ai, talks to 21st century gold. Why are GPUs the gold-standard choice for accelerating AI workloads?

• Meet Ronen Dar
• The founding of Run:ai
• Tech Behind Run:ai
• Run:ai Differentiation
• GPU Basics
• Dealing with Model Size
• GPU Memory Requirements
• Advice for Clients New to AI
• 3 Ways to go with LLMs
• Run:ai's GTM
• AI Blackouts
• GPU Fractioning
• Predicting the Future
• Where to Reach Ronen

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronen-dar/
Website: https://www.run.ai/

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

GenAI in Marketing.  Making Data Simple welcomes Michael Cohen, Chief Data Analytics Officer and ML and AI product and marketing expert in consumer data technologies.  Marketing Operations, Automated Decision Activation, Measurement and Analytics, Info Security and Privacy. 

• 01:15 Meeting Michael Cohen
• 03:33 The Plus Company
• 08:06 Traditional Approaches to Marketing
• 12:03 The Future of Marketing
• 17:31 Data Augmentin's Role
• 24:46 Data Inputs
• 26:18 The AIOS Product
• 31:39 Algorithms
• 34:03 2 Min Plus Pitch
• 41:13 Aggressive Innovation Roadmaps
• 44:44 Next Marketing Disruption
• 46:33 For Fun

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/macohen1/

Website: www.macohen.net, https://pluscompany.com

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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. 

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

Technology for Mindfulness. How to best utilize technology to your
advantage. The new year is always a good idea to revisit best practices.

• 02:50 Re-introducing Robert Plotkin
• 07:04 Why Technology for Mindfulness
• 11:27 Tech Designed for Addiction
• 15:58 Techniques and Habits for Mindfulness
• 19:11 Time Blocking
• 28:37 Breaking Up Big Tasks for Reward
• 34:22 Hofstadter's Law
• 44:08 Meditation Practice
• 51:52 Tuning out Distractions
• 54:02 Social Media

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robertplotkin,
https://technologyformindfulness.com/
Website: blueshiftip.com
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us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

#MakingDataSimplePodcast welcomes Jaclyn Rice Nelson, CEO & Co-founder of Tribe AI, a network of the world’s top technologists that build advanced AI solutions, AND Coalition Operators, an early-stage venture fund and top women’s operator network.  This week is Part 1 -  Where we simply discuss the state of AI.

• 01:29 Meet Jaclyn Rice Nelson
• 06:03 Being learning oriented 
• 08:22 Alphabets growth equity arm 
• 15:30 What AI now?  User interface?
• 19:52 What to do with hallucinations?
• 27:53 Business adoption

LinkedIn
WSJ spotlight https://techlive.wsj.com/person/jaclyn-rice-nelson/

Website: Tribe.AI, Coalition Operators

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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. 

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com 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.

It's a New Year! Setting your intentions; identifying what's important, and how to prioritize in business. Additionally, harness the superpower of identifying styles.

This week's episode is a replay of a highly rated episode with Lynne Snead, founder and owner of Talent Evolution Systems.  Lynne is a behavioral analyst, consultant, training specialist, speaker, coach. Lynne has a back ground in Educational Psychology, and has specialized in organizational performance for over 20 years. Lynne is one of the original Franklin Covey co-authors, has a best seller, she created Franklin Covey’s signature Project Development process and programs, worked directly with Stephen R Covey Senior and Stephen MR Covey Junior. Lynne started her own company in 2003. 

I've known Lynne for several years and highly recommend reaching out to her for more information.

Show Notes

• 1:42 – Lynne talks about her career
•  4:44 – What is your definition of Coach?
• 7:38 – Beginning of the year intentions
• 16:24 – Line of sight
• 36:40 – How do you prioritize in business?
• 44:40 – Style is important
• 50:54 – What is the “cheat” to align different styles?

 
Favorite book: Speed of Trust

Favorite book: Atomic Habits

About Vern Harnish 

Contact Lynne Snead

Connect with the Team
Producer Kate Mayne - LinkedIn.
Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. 

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