Summary: Cory Minton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/coryminton/) sits down with John Lambert (https://twitter.com/runswim2404/media) from SAS & Matt Maccaux (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmaccaux/) from Dell EMC to understand how these companies are partnering together to enable exploratory analytics to organizations. John talks about some of the technology advancements that SAS has made in recent years around its new cloud based platform SAS Viya and how this is proving modern techniques and tools to help facilitate the citizen data scientist. Matt goes on to discuss how Blue Data and containerization is enabling companies to leverage platforms like SAS Viya and allow their data scientists to dive into the data without putting production environment at risk. It pays to refer your friends to Spark + AI Summit (https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/north-america). Bring your friends with you to Spark + AI Summit 2018, and they can save 15% off their conference registration. Share this special referral code Ref-6851. This can be used by up to 10 of your colleagues. We are also excited to announce that the Big Data Beard is now a partner of the Disney Data Analytics Conference (https://www.ddaconference.com/) that is taking place on August 28th & 29th in Orlando, FL. Stay tuned to our next episode for a chance to win a free pass to this incredibly cool event. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP29 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP29) Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).
