In this episode, we talk about the use and abuse of certifications, both the certifications you van achieve by passing an exam and the Industry ISV certifications that should help yu make purchasing decisions.

00:00 Recent events

Dave

5 enterprise uses of blockchain today

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3149504/cloud-computing/5-enterprise-related-things-you-can-do-with-blockchain-technology-today.html

Top 7 big data trends for 2017

https://datafloq.com/read/the-top-7-big-data-trends-for-2017/2493

How to discover the hidden value in your customer journey

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-discover-hidden-value-your-customer-journey-ronald-van-loon

Jhon

Achieving a 300% speedup in ETL with Apache Spark

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2016/12/achieving-a-300-speedup-in-etl-with-spark/

The Rhythm of Food

http://rhythm-of-food.net/ http://www.thefunctionalart.com/

Information is beautiful awards

http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/188-2016-the-winners

Making data personal: Big data made small

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2016/12/13/making-data-personal-big-data-made-small/

27:50 The sense and non-sense of certifications

Educational certifications ISV Certifications

50:59 End

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