My three sessions from Ignite 2017 in Orlando are available from their web site. They did well in the rankings, which I suppose tells me that the audience found them relevant. The overview of practical data science for the DBA, related to my live courses, ended up being in the top 3 of data track sessions of the conference, based on the information that was shared with me. Enjoy:

• Artificial Intelligence: Past, present, but is the future just about machine learning?
• Accuracy, reliability, model cross-validation and p-values.
• Practical data science for a DBA with SQL Server 2017 and Cortana Intelligence.

The AI session is one that I have keynoted with at a few conferences this year. I have deep concerns about the way deep learning and ML is being positioned as a “blackbox” that solves everything… I think more problems will be created that way than solved. I hope the session gives you some ideas how to avoid that.

Rafal