David Walker is a Principal Consultant who leads large data warehousing projects with staff sizes between 1 to 20 people. He enjoys rugby and spends time with his family in Dorset when not traveling for work. The document provides biographical details about Walker's background, responsibilities, interests, and perspectives on technology and business challenges.
Even staunch cyberutopians are feeling beaten down. But is the Net as disappointing as we're constantly told. Let's look at four basic ideas about ourselves that the Net has changed...
Even staunch cyberutopians are feeling beaten down. But is the Net as disappointing as we're constantly told. Let's look at four basic ideas about ourselves that the Net has changed...
Business considerations for privacy and open data: how not to get caught outtheODI
When all around you seems to be going "open", what should you know and bear in mind to avoid a privacy debacle. Unless your data is solely about inanimate objects, there will be privacy considerations for your business or organisation. Done properly, suitable consideration may be trivial; done badly, it can be catastrophic, and hindsight is always better when the stories are about a different organisation.With kittens and hopefully some humour, Sam Smith of Privacy International covers how your organisation can avoid a future audience laughing (uncomfortably) at the privacy choices you should have made for your users, your customers and citizens.
Metanomics is a weekly Web-based show on the serious uses of virtual worlds. This transcript is from a past show.
For this and other videos, visit us at http://metanomics.net.
Intelligence, Insight, and the role of Scale: Data stories from the business ...Paul Miller
A presentation to the IDCC 2013 conference in Amsterdam, 15 January 2013.
The presentation looks at the growing use of data in business, science, and everyday life, and asks whether or not we always need the scale encouraged by Big Data enthusiasts.
Infrastructure as Destiny — How Purdue Builds a Support Fabric for Big Data E...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how Purdue University provides IT as a service, using big data and the IoT technologies, to support such worthy goals as student retention analysis.
TDWI Keynote: Outside In - The Future of Business Intelligence innovationmark madsen
The real future of business intelligence rather than the retro future we've been building, and where to look for inspiration and innovation in the future.
A solution to controlling and dealing with the dark data inspired by biologic...Ali Alizade Haghighi
Today, Many global companies show clearly their tendency to analyze the disposal data and exploit it in order to enlarge their money-making machines. Now, We attempt to control the Dark Data and turning it into a pre-processed Big Data with new strategies. We try to create the ability to process and classify the Dark Data inspired by Biological Phenomena...
Business considerations for privacy and open data: how not to get caught outtheODI
When all around you seems to be going "open", what should you know and bear in mind to avoid a privacy debacle. Unless your data is solely about inanimate objects, there will be privacy considerations for your business or organisation. Done properly, suitable consideration may be trivial; done badly, it can be catastrophic, and hindsight is always better when the stories are about a different organisation.With kittens and hopefully some humour, Sam Smith of Privacy International covers how your organisation can avoid a future audience laughing (uncomfortably) at the privacy choices you should have made for your users, your customers and citizens.
Metanomics is a weekly Web-based show on the serious uses of virtual worlds. This transcript is from a past show.
For this and other videos, visit us at http://metanomics.net.
Intelligence, Insight, and the role of Scale: Data stories from the business ...Paul Miller
A presentation to the IDCC 2013 conference in Amsterdam, 15 January 2013.
The presentation looks at the growing use of data in business, science, and everyday life, and asks whether or not we always need the scale encouraged by Big Data enthusiasts.
Infrastructure as Destiny — How Purdue Builds a Support Fabric for Big Data E...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how Purdue University provides IT as a service, using big data and the IoT technologies, to support such worthy goals as student retention analysis.
TDWI Keynote: Outside In - The Future of Business Intelligence innovationmark madsen
The real future of business intelligence rather than the retro future we've been building, and where to look for inspiration and innovation in the future.
A solution to controlling and dealing with the dark data inspired by biologic...Ali Alizade Haghighi
Today, Many global companies show clearly their tendency to analyze the disposal data and exploit it in order to enlarge their money-making machines. Now, We attempt to control the Dark Data and turning it into a pre-processed Big Data with new strategies. We try to create the ability to process and classify the Dark Data inspired by Biological Phenomena...
Government 2.0: architecting for collaborationTara Hunt
Unfortunately, the video won't embed this way. :( And it makes it soooo awesome. So, here is where to find them:
1. The Day of the Longtail By Michael Markman, Peter Hirshberg, Bob Kalsey; Produced for The Computer History Museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xAA71Ssids
2. What the Heck is BarCamp? by Ryanne Hodson & Jay Dedman
http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2006/06/barcampsf.html
3. Transit Camp on CityTV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDkEPvIwarI
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What data scientists really do, according to 50 data scientistsHugo Bowne-Anderson
My talk at PyData NYC, 2018.
This is the abstract:
Hugo Bowne-Anderson, data scientist and host of the DataFramed podcast, will give you a view into the thinking of 50 leading data scientists from around the world about the trends driving the data science revolution. During his interviews with these thought leaders, Hugo discovered themes and lessons about the past, present, and future of data science.
Big Data Week 2016 - Worldpay - Deploying Secure ClustersDavid Walker
A presentation from the Big Data Week conference in 2016 that looks how Worldpay, a major payments provider, deployed a secure Hadoop cluster in order to meet business requirements
Data Works Berlin 2018 - Worldpay - PCI ComplianceDavid Walker
A presentation from the Data Works conference in 2018 that looks how Worldpay, a major payments provider, deployed a secure Hadoop cluster in order to meet business requirements and in the process became on e of the few fully certified PCI compliance clusters in the world
Data Works Summit Munich 2017 - Worldpay - Multi Tenancy ClustersDavid Walker
A presentation from the Data Works Summit conference in 2017 that looks how Worldpay, a major payments provider, deployed a secure Hadoop cluster to support multiple business cases in a multi-tenancy cluster.
Big Data Analytics 2017 - Worldpay - Empowering PaymentsDavid Walker
A presentation from the Big Data Analytics conference in 2017 that looks how Worldpay, a major payments provider, uses data science and big data analytics to influence successful card payments.
A discussion on how insurance companies could use telematics data, social media and open data sources to analyse and better price policies for their customers
Data Driven Insurance Underwriting (Dutch Language Version)David Walker
A discussion on how insurance companies could use telematics data, social media and open data sources to analyse and better price policies for their customers
An introduction to data virtualization in business intelligenceDavid Walker
A brief description of what Data Virtualisation is and how it can be used to support business intelligence applications and development. Originally presented to the ETIS Conference in Riga, Latvia in October 2013
A presentation to the ETIS Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Working Group in Brussels 22-Mar-13 discussing what Saas & Cloud means and how they will affect BI in Telcos
Business intelligence requirements are changing and business users are moving more and more from historical reporting into predictive analytics in an attempt to get both a better and deeper understanding of their data. Traditionally, building an analytical platform has required an expensive infrastructure and a considerable amount of time for setup and deployment. Here we look at a quick and simple alternative.
Using the right data model in a data martDavid Walker
A presentation describing how to choose the right data model design for your data mart. Discusses the pros and benefits of different data models with different rdbms technologies and tools
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
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• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
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Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 days
Connections a life in the day of - david walker
1. A Life In The Day Of:
Getting Personal: David Walker
Title: Principal Consultant
Data Management & Warehousing
Responsibilities: Strategy, Architecture and Team
Leadership in large data warehouse
projects
Staff size: Depends on projects etc but between 1 and 20 normally
Previous jobs: Technical Leader (Databases), Sequent Computer Systems
Head of Customer Services, EMIS
Computer Resources Manager, BCFE
Education: Degree in Maths and some other bits of paper
Claims to fame:
I once did the traffic news for a San Francisco radio station. I went down to do a helicopter
sight seeing trip and the guy also did the traffic news and thought it would be fun to have
“a British person do it with his English accent”
For a laugh:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are going camping. They pitch their tent under the stars
and go to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night Holmes wakes Watson up.
"Watson, look up at the stars, and tell me what you deduce."
Watson says, "I see millions of stars, and if there are millions of stars, and if even a few of
those have planets, it’s quite likely there are some planets like Earth, and if there are a few
planets like Earth out there, there might also be life."
Holmes replied: "Watson, you idiot, somebody stole our tent!"
How the devil are you?
Well, my shoulder is a bit stiff, and I had a nasty cough last week, and there’s this nail on
my big toe, and … Oh I’m fine thanks.
2. Currently, what's giving you a buzz?
Wasps – my son and I are big fans of London Wasps rugby team.
On the work front delivery is, and always has been, the biggest buzz going for me – being
in a project that is actually achieving what it sets out to do and being at the heart of it is
great, long hours and late nights are just forgotten when you are succeeding especially if
the project is doing something interesting and/or worthwhile.
In technology I am looking at what column storage databases and data warehouse
appliances will deliver to businesses over the next three years and if they can disrupt the
existing technologies.
What challenges are you currently facing?
Data Warehousing projects often are difficult to justify based on the initial cost and yet at
the same time the business wants faster, more accurate data. The challenge is therefore to
reduce cost and yet increase benefit.
There are also a large number of quick wins offered to businesses that really either cost too
much or lock the business in to a vendor – these are difficult to compete with when you feel
you have a better long term solution for the client.
What projects top your priority list for 2008?
Company projects include producing more high quality white papers, so many produced
these days are empty advertorials but when I take the time to write I want it to convey
something of value.
Client projects will, I am sure, be focused around driving more information and less data
from systems and getting better value from their data warehouses. This will include faster,
higher quality data and re-hosting to new platforms
What really rattles your cage?
Technology for technology sake – My mother constantly feels the need to get a
video/DVD/camcorder/computer for which she has no use, then after six months on the
shelf I get a phone call that starts ‘I’ve got a … and I can’t get it to work.’
I’ve had the same conversation with clients who have bought software or hardware but
failed to find a true use for it and eventually call needing help either to commission or de-
commission it – in either case it is a waste of time and money.
What initiatives have added real value to our lives?
Two areas strike me as important, the first is social justice, things that help people get on
the bottom rung of the ladder but not handouts – give a man a fish and you feed him for a
day, give him a rod and you feed him for a life time type stuff.
The second area is communications – as the cost of communication has dropped we have
had the opportunity to understand others better, it has however often been a wasted
opportunity.
3. If you could travel back in time what technology would you drown at birth?
Why?
Microsoft Visual Basic. It was an innovative product that made it really easy for anyone to
start programming and that was the problem. Suddenly everyone was a programmer and
this led to a rapid demise in the quality of programming, a loss of good design,
abandonment of change management and the birth of the script bunnies who have created
so many of the viruses that are around.
What's the next big thing?
In the technology market in general it will be some change in the way in which media
(music, books, movies) etc is handled. The current status quo of copyright, DRM etc. is not
sustainable and people want more media for less cost so will work to break protection
where it exists. In the data warehousing space it will be a boom in appliances and the
rationalisation of tool vendors that will most change the market
Who do you most admire?
My wife; she puts up with me coming and going around the world for work whilst keeping
the kids on the level. Cooks for unexpectedly large groups at the drop of a hat and still has
a sense of humour after fifteen years of marriage.
Outside of work, what do you get up to?
I coach and play rugby and as a family we also go to the theatre a lot. We spend as much
time as we can at our house in Dorset. I also enjoy travelling, reading and listening to
music. My nerd factor comes from my stamp collection which I find incredibly therapeutic
just sifting and sorting stuff without any responsibilities.
Who's invited to your dinner party?
My family and friends – celebrity is over-rated. If I did have to pick from the famous then
Richard Feynmann (Physist) , Umberto Eco (Author and Professor of Semiotics), Bernard
Knight (Pathologist, but dead funny!)
What's the worst job you've ever had?
I worked for a small company immediately after leaving Sequent. It only lasted a few weeks
because the owner was one of the most dishonest people I have ever met – he misled me
about the company product, company turnover, sales pipeline, and just about everything
else – but even then I am more disappointed with myself for believing him.
Aside from your house, what's the most expensive thing you've ever bought?
I once spent £2,000 on a pair of 1920 Egyptian Revival enamelled cufflinks. They have
Cleopatra’s head at one end and Cleopatra’s needle at the other. I bid for them in auction
against one of the TV newsreaders and Vanessa Feltz and got a bit carried away – but I
won!
What item can you not live without?
My mobile, running a small business you need to be in contact and able to read e-mail etc
wherever you are. I don’t like it but I can’t live without it whilst I do this job!
4. Shipwrecked on the proverbial desert island, what are you reading, what are you
listening to and what are you watching?
Umberto Eco – The Name Of The Rose, Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue, Michael Caine – The
Italian Job