PASS Summit 2011
I am attending PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server) Summit in Seattle, Washington this week. If you are also at this conference, and would like to meet me, let me know by using the contact...
View ArticleComments on PASS Summit Wednesday Keynote
I am blogging from the PASS Summit in Seattle, WA. This morning’s keynote session with Ted Kummert of Microsoft had the expected announcements about SQL Server. In this post, I will talk about some of...
View ArticleComments on PASS Summit Thursday Keynote
Today’s keynote at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit was based on the phrase “The Fantastic 12 of 2012″. I’m thinking the “Fantastic 12″ was a spin-off of the movie and comic...
View ArticleComments on PASS Summit Friday Keynote
Today’s keynote was by computer science guru Dr. David DeWitt. I had heard that DeWitt was a good presenter, and found that to be true. He focused on Big Data, and specifically went through how Hadoop...
View ArticleAttending Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2012
I am new (meaning first year) to the Microsoft MVP program. Microsoft provides a budget for this program which translates into software licenses and other opportunities. One of the opportunities is an...
View ArticlePresenting at SQL Saturday 111 Atlanta on April 14
I will be presenting “Applied Enterprise Semantic Mining” at SQL Saturday 111 in Atlanta, on April 14, 2012. In this presentation, I discuss new technology for SQL Server 2012. This blog post has the...
View ArticlePresenting at TechEd Europe in June 2012
I will be presenting “Data Mining 2012 with Microsoft Excel 2010 and PowerPivot” at TechEd Europe in June 2012. The conference runs from June 26-29, 2012. This blog post has the details. The...
View ArticlePresenting at TechEd North America June 2012
I will be presenting “Data Mining 2012 with Microsoft Excel 2010 and PowerPivot” at TechEd Orlando in June 2012. I will also be leading a “Birds of a Feather” session. The conference runs from June...
View ArticleExcel is the Number One Commercial Tool for Analytics, Data Mining, and Big Data
Annually, the respected kdnuggets.com asks their users what tools people are using for analytics, data mining, and big data. I had seen the results summarized this morning, from a StatSoft STATISTICA...
View ArticlePASS Business Analytics Conference Announced: Spring 2013
PASS is the Professional Association for SQL Server. This largely volunteer organization works closely with Microsoft to promote education related to SQL Server. Today, Douglas McDowell announced a...
View ArticlePresenting at Data Science ATL on February 12
Data Science ATL is the name of a Meetup group in Atlanta, GA. The group members nominally call themselves “data scientists” but also include the following topics: Data management Data visualization...
View ArticleSponsoring and Presenting at SQL Saturday 226 South Florida June 29
I am happy to be a sponsor (via MarkTab Inc) and presenter at SQL Saturday 226 South Florida. I have been to this event in the past, and many of my presenter friends will also be at this excellent...
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