Publisher and tech visionary, Tim O’Reilly, has repeatedly said that “Data is the Intel Inside“. O’Reilly was referring, of course, to Intel’s famous “Intel Inside” ad campaign touting the importance of their chips, mainly since chips are invisible inside a computer or device and it’s easy for competitors to market their chips as being equal and interchangeable with Intel’s. O’Reilly’s recognition that data is the hidden value inside applications, the “Intel Inside” value, meant leveraging data was an imperative in application development.
The Gang talks with a data scientist (and accomplished applications developer) living here in the Twin Cities, Jamie Ostheimer. He is working with a string of startups and is deeply embedded within the world of data. Osterheimer has a PhD in Astronomy, a discipline all about the data (and no, not Commander Data from Star Trek Next Generation). Rather his focus is about the core data sets that power all of our analysis, driving insights and enabling us to gain new meanings from it.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: bluessmyth & the song “Down on My Luck” from the podsafe Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:
- Minneapolis startup TST Media acquires Wisconsin Sports Network site (Pioneer Press)
- Facebook’s $5 Billion IPO: The Next Google? Or The Next Groupon?
- Zuckerberg Controlling 57% of Facebook Seen as Risk to Investors
- Facebook’s Ad Business Is a $3 Billion Mystery
- In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad; Foxconn; Major Customers
- Was Google’s Disastrous January A Passing Storm Or Sign Of Things To Come?
- Employers added 243,000 jobs in January, pushing unemployment rate down to 8.3 percent
- Jamie Ostheimer links: What Is a Data Scientist? (the diagram we discuss); Forbes article
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