Data Reveal

S2E2 Listening, Humility, and Data with Mark Meersman

🏆 Mark and IPC built a brand on doing analytics in a really unique way: combining Qlik and AWS. 00:51 📈 "The market is following Qlik and AWS": all in one solution for all the data Mark found in Qlik and the innovative solution of AWS to leverage technologies of their customers. 03:55 🚦 Comparing Waze to Qlik. 05:05 🤩 Why Mark threw away some BI systems: Data model patent Qlik made for fast reach of data. 08:00 😷 Mark became a TV personality: using data to inform the community during COVID ...

S2E1 Finding Your Strength Zone with Alan Stein Jr.

📚 Alan is Mark's old friend and a successful author. 00:35 ✍️ Alan enjoyed writing a book called Sustain Your Game: writing books serves as a therapeutic way to serve himself as well as others. 01:29 🗝️ You have the key: “People have the power to change more than they most likely believe they do.” 03:10 🏀 From basketball player to coach to motivational speaker: Coming from a family of educators, Alan always had a natural affinity to be of service to and teach others. 05:04 💪 The best advice ...

S1Ep12. Bonus: Kids and Tech with Loyal Hastings

👧 Loyal is nine years old, and she loves learning in STEM. 01:12 🌉 Fun engineering projects: building bridges with toothpicks, popsicle sticks, and marshmallows. 02:20 🎙️ Third graders are learning about history and social studies: Loyal’s favorite podcast. 04:43 🐇 Loyal’s friends talk about podcasts in school: when you got sucked into like the deepest hole of podcast. 07:04 😍 Word association game in the episode. 11:20 🤩 What Loyal wants to be when she grows up: she and her friends chose ...

S1Ep11. Season Recap: Discussing What Data Really Reveals

🏁 The end of season 01 and our impressions. 00:35 📻 College radio hosts and various topics in our podcast all centered around people. 02:05 🌉 Treating podcasting as a bridge between the human and business sides, not as a commercial. 04:51 🛣️ Daveed Gartenstein-Ross’ episode: a journey into radicalization pre and post 9/11. 06:20 🎯 Discussing the third-rail topics thoughtfully and not provocatively. 07:34 🤓 Chris Wilson and what the word joint means: translator, leadership, and interoperabi...

S1Ep10. Uniting the Financial Crimes Community to Protect Vulnerable Populations with Ian Mitchell

😱 Huge issues Ian is dealing with: 25 million people in human trafficking. $63 billion lost in unemployment scams. 02:25 🎯 Human Crime: fighting fraud since he was 28, Ian believes we all can get involved in solving these issues. 🤫 The financial intelligence community deals in secrets to find fraudsters, terrorists, and money launderers. 03:19 💸 The neural bank networks detect anomalous behaviors and fight fraud: Ian started in the risk management world. 06:57 🥊 Working on the cyber front, ...

S1Ep09. Capitalism, Activism, and Motivation with Jere Simpson

🙅‍♂️ It's not good for capitalism to be filled with false information or even misleading marketing information. 00:35 😮‍💨Jere’s article, negligent behavior towards veterans, and his traumatic experience on 09/11. 03:31 🤯 Taking care of veterans: Effective medicine is being pushed out. 08:40 😢 The suicide rate of veterans is extremely high: 4000 suicides before Veteran’s Day. 11:24 🤓 Studies about MDMA treatment and its effectiveness for helping with PTSD. 13:45 💊 Threat to finances and se...

S1Ep08. Leadership Intuition and Readiness with Jim McHugh of BigBear.ai

✅ Jim McHugh’s vast experience. 00:35 🤕 Many government agencies are not ready for AI and ML solutions. 04:09 😳 Real visionaries get frustrated and burned out and resign. 06:38 🚚 Supply chains are being rewritten. 07:44 👔 Not enough leaders are empowered. 11:58 👉 Supply management: a production, information, and financial flow. 13:10 🔧 AI and ML is not a panacea for decision-making; it is a tool that can help. 15:19 🕴️ Need to develop leadership intuition: relying too much on technology t...

S1Ep07. Creative Disruption for the Next Federal Workforce with Monica Breidenbach

🌎 Changes in the data world. 02:46 👉 The great resignation and the talent war are not that surprising. 03:19 🏛️ The federal government is the nation's largest employer. 04:53 📋 A need for a centralized dashboard for both comparison and benchmarking purposes. 06:25 📈 Agencies are not using the same HR systems, and a generalized platform would be beneficial. 07:56 🤔 How to bring a more diverse population into the workforce? 10:23 🧑‍💻 We need to grow and include more digital native Gen Z’s ...

S1Ep06. A New Self-Health Platform with Femi Ayanbadejo

🤝 How Mark and Femi met. 00:35 🙃 Entrepreneurs, like Femi, give us a different way of looking at disruptions. 01:59 🏈 Femi is a former NFL player. 04:09 ☯️ Blending Eastern and Western philosophy and, medicine to maximize his career. 05:17 4️⃣ Four levers of self-health: Survival, information quality, awareness, and traditional health performance metrics. 07:17 🧘‍♂️Health and emotions are connected: Struggling through anxiety with exercising. 10:09 🤗 “We have the ability to heal others and ...

S1Ep05. Trustworthy AI and Women in Data with Monica McEwen of Deloitte

👉 9/11 was a turning point in the government's willingness to try and use data more effectively. 03:16 💫 The pandemic has created a significant turn to data and cultural change within organizations. 04:32 👔 Requirements for data are now being driven much more by the business and not just IT today. 05:28 ⏳There are so many new technologies that exist today that make data analytics more powerful. 08:05 💨 Moving to the cloud will enable agencies to move faster, remove technical barriers, and en...

S1Ep04. An Inflection Point in Data with Chris Wilson

Welcome, Chris. 02:20 Chris’s career journey: Joined the army, his time in active duty, and his work with the Threat Reduction Agenecy.03:29 Going to Stratcom, the Missile Defense Agency, USSTRATCOM, and the Qlick Federal team.06:12 Defense industrial base manufacturers ensure supply chains because any issue can cause an immediate impact on real-world missions. 08:36 Experiencing 9/11 at a Superfund site and his unit’s work.10:26 Impactful things after 9/11: the communication expedition for data...

S1Ep03. Inclusion or Bust?: Discussing Inclusive Nationalism with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross part 2

⚠️ Reflection after 20 years of 9/11: We are at a time of profound tension. 00:36 🤔 We need outside-of-the-box thinking, but a controversial view of virtually anything in 2021 can cost you your job and professional status, and that is not healthy. 03:30 🗽 Buiding inclusive nationalism and challenges around it: It's important that we have a national identity that we're proud of. 06:01 🤓 Moving forward: the raising of the right values, reducing polarization, diversity, openness within generatio...

S1Ep02. Inclusion or Bust?: Discussing Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

👉 Reflection and activation: 20 years after 9/11. 00:35 🧐 Politics is a profound tension, a tension between competing ideals and values. 01:20 💬 Data related to domestic violent extremism.03:12 👋 Welcome, Dr. Daveed! 04:15 🤔 DVE’s are a growing challenge and wrong usage of data. 06:06 🖥️ Daveed and Mark ‘met’ via a counterterrorism blog in 2005. 08:59 😮‍💨 Mark’s experience on 9/11 and the vivid memories that have lasted. 6:48 🏛️ Andrew was at a conference in Baltimore with the Social Se...

S1Ep01. Welcome to Data Reveal

🤓 Think big, start small and keep asking questions that make you grow. 00:36 😇 The world is being remade in data's image, and we have a chance to remake the world in a more humane image. 02:57 🗽 People across the government are doing useful and important things with data and technology. 06:13 ⚡Use cases: Robotic process automation became a hot topic 09:49 🧐 On data literacy and leading organizations from a data perspective. 14:43 ⚖️ Balancing risk vs. speed is not much different from risk vs...

00. Introduction