My Ultimate Agile Podcast blog post was such a hit I though it only appropriate to do one for Big Data. Who doesn’t need to data geek out when in the car, plane, train, or treadmill? Listening to podcast is one of the easiest ways to keep or skill up. However find a cultivated list of podcasts on just Big Data is not easy.
The list is intended to be a resource for the Big Data/Hadoop/Data Analytics community. So I will continue to update the list with new Big Data podcast or episodes.
If you a host of a big data related podcast below or new podcast and would like to interview me on your show, reach out by Twitter, comments, or etc..
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Since I’ve created this list, I’m putting the episodes of the podcast I was in first.
Big Data Podcast List by Category
Hadoop/Spark/MapReduce
Big Data Beard Podcast – Newly released podcast exploring the trends, technology, and talented people making Big Data a big deal. Host are Brett Roberts, Cory Minton, Kyle Prins, Robert Hout, Keith Quebodeaux, and myself. Join us as we talk to about our Big Data journey and with others in the community.
Get Up And Code 093: All About Running With Thomas Henson – In this Podcast episode my friend John Sonmez and I talk about how I ran my first 1/2 Marathon and the release of my Pig Latin Getting Started course. Pig Latin was one of my first languages I learned in the Hadoop ecosystem and I was excited to be able to give back to the community with this course.
My Life for the Code 02: Big Data Niche, Pluralsight, Family, and more with Thomas Henson – Another podcast I appeared on talking more about Pig Latin and where I see big data going on the next 10 years. Shawn and I also jump into to talking about pursuing your passion(spoiler mine is data analytics) while raising a family. We even threw in a couple of my books recommendations and teased my 2nd Pluralsight course HDFS Getting Started.
LinkedIn’s Kafka, Digital Ocean gets deep about cloud and Red Sox data! – LinkedIN’s Kafka processing 1 trillion messages…..
All Things Hadoop – Favorite episode Hadoop and Pig from Alan gates at Yahoo the title alone gives you an indication of how old it is but still awesome listen.
Puppet Podcast Provisioning Hadoop Clusters with Puppet – Learn how to use Puppet to automate your CDH environment with Puppet. Mike Arnold the creator of the Puppet module talks about to deploy CDH on a large scale with Puppet. If you virtualizing Hadoop (and you should be) then you’ll want to take note in the episode on how speed up your deployment process. My prediction is in the next year we will see more automation tools in the Hadoop ecosystem.
Roaring Elephant Podcast – Awesome insight from two guys working out in the field in Europe. They talk through hot topics in Hadoop ecosystem and also give some real world story from the customers they speak with. Great Podcast if you are just starting out in your Hadoop journey.
TechTarget Talking Data – Quick short digestible episodes all about data Build vs rent, Kafka and Spark Streaming
Data Engineering Podcast – Podcast dedicated to those who are running the Data pipelines in Big Data and Analytics workflows. Host Tobias does an amazing job keeping Data Engineers up to date with data workflows and tools to create those workflows.
Business of Big Data
Hot Aisle with Bill Smarzo – One of my favorite podcast episodes (full disclosure: I work with both the hosts of the Hot Aisle and Bill Schmarzo) on the topic of the business of big data. Bill’s insight into to what Big Data can mean for a business is something a lot of us as developers/admin lack when talking outside of the wall of IT. One of the biggest reasons Hadoop projects fail is because they aren’t tied to a business objective. In this episode learn about how to tie your Hadoop project to a business to generate more revenue for the company, which brings in more money to expand your Hadoop cluster (win-win-win).
Cloud of Data – Wow talk about an all-star cast of interview it looks like a who’s who of Data CEOs . The first episode was with InfoChimp’s CEO, which I actually worked at CSC during the InfoChimp’s acquisition. Those were some really bright data scientist.
Data Analytics/ Machine Learning
Data Skeptic – usually short format on specific topics in data analytics. the podcast is great. It’s about data analytics and not just about big data but confused as the same thing. My favorite episodes are the algorithm explanations b/c as someone who mostly stays on the software side I like to keep up with the use of these algorithms b/c it helps when working with the DS team.
Partially Derivative – Another great podcast on data analytics, my favorite episode was done live from Stitchfix my wife’s favorite product and mine to but for a different reason. Stichfix is a monthly subscription company that matches a customer with their own personal stylist, but behind the dressing room curtain Stichfix is really a data company. Listen in to hear about all the experimentation that take place on a daily basis at Stichtfix. Also hear about how they are using machine learning to pick out clothes you’d like.
Linear Digressions – Another short quick hit on Data analytics Machine learning on Genomics, how polls got Brexit, and Election forecasting.
Data Crunch -Podcast devoted to highlighting how data analytics is changing the world. Released 1 -2 times a month coming in under 30 minutes per episode.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Inquiring Minds Understanding Heart Disease with Big Data – Not a podcast dedicated IT or Big Data but in this episode Greg Marcus talks about analyzing the heart with IOT. Think that smartwatch is just for tracking steps and sending text messages? That smartwatch could help advance the science behind heart disease by giving your doctor access. Really great episode to hear how IOT is offering lower cost research in healthcare and provide more data than traditional studies.
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