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Tim Rodman revisits his backyard BBQ education in PowerPivot. Not just any BBQ, this one hosted two corporate powerhouses casually chatting analytic software over the grill. After this informal introduction, Tim went on to become yet another Power BI OG.
Lars Schreiber is another one of the great examples of the human element of data that we love! He’s an MVP, a long-standing member of the Power BI Community, and his passion for the Power Platform is quite catchy!
For the second part of our 2022 New Year double feature, we sat down with Olivier Travers. Olivier has had quite the data journey that has taken him from France to Germany, Portugal, Italy, and finally, to Chile where he serves clients all over the world as a Business Intelligence advisor and consultant…an expert in Power BI, he’s focused on data visualization, SaaS integration, and software architecture! He also knows quite a bit about MMA and Brazilian JuJitsu, and a spirited discussion on who would win in a fight ensues!
Our guest for the first part of the double feature is Geoff Mcneely, a very interesting human! He has a degree in Anthropology (we can check that one off of our interesting background list!) He’s a Power BI OG, starting one of the first two Power BI user groups (Rob having started the other). He’s a full-time Power BI professional working for Microsoft who has a strange distinction of being a non-Full-Time Full-Time employee (we will explain)!
This week’s episode is a bit of a fun departure, as we peel back the curtain and talk a bit with Luke Pirozzoli, producer of Raw Data and Operations Manager at P3 Adaptive! A story not necessarily data-based, but certainly as winding and different a path as any! We have some great episodes already recorded to start 2022 with a bang! Happy Holidays!
The data gene lurks everywhere, including deep in the heart of Texas High School Football! Enter Coach Chase Hargis, Defensive coach of the Magnolia High School Football team in Texas and also a data guy, who asked P3 Adaptive to help with a very specific data problem…how to visualize football data so as to give an edge to his players?
What’s the first feeling that you get when you hear the word Sales or Salesperson? We believe that most people do not get warm fuzzies when they hear those words! Carson Heady is Director, Health Solutions – U.S. Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft and shatters the negative stereotypes of the Salesperson. He is about as human and helpful as any guest we’ve had on the show, and we’re quite sure that his customers agree!
Adam Harstad is one of the few guests that have been on with us twice! This time around, we cover some pitfalls that data people fall into including cognitive bias and how people behave in the face of uncertainty, how these traps can be applied and avoided in life and in data, and we do throw in some Fantasy Football talk!
For our 50th episode a few weeks ago, we shared an episode that Rob recorded with his grandfather, Bob “Pop” Collie. We had some content that didn’t quite fit the vibe of the episode, and we just didn’t feel right about keeping this amazing stuff to ourselves! It’s a lot of Pop Collie’s Navy stories of him being goofy, how he played football for a legendary college coach, and how a series of strange events led to him meeting his wife!
Mary Fealty is a prime example of the spirit of “Why not?” that we’ve been exploring as of late! She is a Power BI early adopter (we like to call folks like Mary a Power BI OG!), and her experience and knowledge place her as a leader in the data solutions field.
We’ve been quite busy not only just here at Raw Data, business at P3 Adaptive HQ has been booming! So much so, that we’ve had to add our 4th Director of Client Services to the team to keep up with our ever increasing business. His name is Angel Abundez, and his journey has zigzagged him across both Rob and Tom’s paths in the past (and maybe yours as well along the way) and has led him here today, sitting down and sharing his story with us!
For this episode, we wanted to do something a bit different. Our guest is a very special human-Bob “Pop” Collie is Rob’s 96 year old grandfather on his father’s side. Rob credits Pop Collie for so many things, like teaching him the power of “Why Not?” That spirit of “Why Not?” has molded and shaped not only Rob’s philosophy, but it’s also a huge part of the philosophy of P3 Adaptive. When someone tells us something is not possible, we ask….”why not?” And make it possible!