In this episode, Frank and Andy talk to Buck Woody of Microsoft.

Warning: This show contains lots of laughter!

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Notable Quotes: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/learning-paths/data-science-process/ (TDSP) – Team Data Science Process  ([6:30]) MOOC – Massive Online Open Course – “democratizing intelligence” ([7:20]) Buck’s a “warrant officer” [Applied Data Scientist] ([15:40]) How Data Scientists are like your significant other… ([18:00]) BI and Data Mining are not the same thing. ([20:30]) Buck’s Data Science technology Matryoshka Dolls analogy ([22:22]) Movie reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804 (Office Space) ([25:30]) “No. And fix the bridges.” ([27:15]) “… as long as we’re not recoring this or anything…” ([28:00]) Buck does not answer my question about how to manage meetings! ([30:30]) Buck loves Andy’s car. ([33:45]) “Big data was invented to process my HR file.” ([34:45])