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How would you like to finally write your amazing book, get completely unstuck in the writing process and never worry about sitting in front of a blinking cursor with writer's block again?

All by using the power of AI to supercharge your writing! You’ve probably heard a ton about AI recently and maybe you're skeptical about it - perhaps understandably so.The first thing I want to point out is that I am not talking about having AI do all the work and write some regurgitated mess from the web - no one wants that.

But what if you’re stuck on crafting a really engaging title and sub-title and you just need some great examples to draw from. I’m going to show you how AI can help with that.

Or what if you are stuck with creating a great table of contents and flow for your book and you’d like to see the best structure to use for a business book, or self help book, or coaching, medical, legal or consulting book?

I’m going to show you how AI can help with that.

What if you're stuck needing a relevant stories or anecdote to drive home your message—be it leadership triumphs, coaching successes, sales victories, or client breakthroughs.

AI can help with that too!

The speaker, Rob Kosberg, is the founder of Best Seller Publishing and we have helped thousands of authors to write, publish and launch their books to bestseller status.

Over the last decade we have developed our own proprietary methodology (and trademarked it) we call Enhanced Ghostwriting™ And we have taught AI to model that method.

I want to invite you to my Write Your Book with AI Workshop and I am going to show you how to use AI and get unstuck forever with your writing.

We will discuss how to:

• Use AI to help you dial in your ideal reader and client
• Use AI to craft an amazing hook, title and sub-title
• Use AI to craft a table of contents and flow for your book
• Use AI to set your chapter structure up properly
• Use AI to give you great story and anecdote ideas or to simply enhance your own story *

About the Speaker

Rob Kosberg

• Founder and CEO of Best Seller Publishing.
• 2x Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Best Selling Author.
• 10+ years experience helping 1000's of Coaches, Business Owners, and Entrepreneurs to Publish and Promote their own book.
• Featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times, and CNN.

AI for the rest of us is on a mission to make AI easier to understand.

AI is ready for everyone. No matter who you are. No matter what your role.

We promise no hype, no jargon and no confusing terminology. We're a warm and inclusive community where we meet you where you are, and help get you where you want to be!

Join us for our next in-person meetup in London on Thursday June 19th

At this event we have two amazing speakers who will provide unique perspectives on the Human benefits and impacts of AI. Azahara Corrales (AI Digital Transformation Leader) will be speaking about how AI can be a tool that empowers people and Rob Price (Founder, Futuria) will be reflecting on Digital Responsibility when delegating work to multi-agent teams.

Where and When?

• Thursday, June 19th
• Doors open at 18:00
• Talks start at 19:00
• Adaptavist, 28 Scrutton St, London EC2A 4RP

Talk 1: AI, Made Human: What You Really Need to Know (Azahara Corrales, Digital Transformation Leader)

In a world where AI can feel distant, overwhelming, or even threatening, this talk brings it back to the human level. Azahara Corrales breaks down what AI really is (and isn’t), and shows how anyone, regardless of background, can start using it today to improve productivity, creativity, and confidence. It's not about replacing humans; it’s about empowering them.

Azahara Corrales is an international public speaker and award-winning AI strategist, known for helping brands and professionals embrace artificial intelligence to drive meaningful transformation. With a background in digital marketing and a passion for closing the tech gap, she empowers organisations and individuals, especially women, to confidently navigate the future of work with AI.

Talk 2: Digital Responsibility with Multi-Team, Multi-Agent Agentic AI (Rob Price, Founder of Futuria)

Rob founded the global Corporate Digital Responsibility movement and brings that knowledge and experience to the domain of multi-agent teams. As we innovate with AI agents we are constantly asking ourselves the questions of "what work do we delegate to teams of AI agents?" and importantly "what does that mean for us?"

Massive thank you to our sponsors DevRev.ai and Kolteki who host our meetups! Without their support this would not be possible!

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PyDataMCR November

THE TALKS

Developing High-Resolution Models for Future UK Climate Extremes - Rob Shooter (He/Him)

Extreme events of climatological variables have the potential to cause significant damage to buildings and infrastructure in the UK. With the expected effects of climate change, these extremes are likely to increase in magnitude. Therefore, estimating the size of future extreme events, such as 100-year precipitation events, is important for climate adaptation strategies, where high resolution is also often desired. In this talk, Rob will give an overview of some approaches to estimating present-day extremes of environmental hazards, then describe how 2.2 km resolution climate data can be used to produce estimates of 100-year precipitation events in the year 2070, detailing some of the computational challenges that need to be overcome.

Rob has a background in statistics, working mostly on spatial statistics models applied to environmental data. He has previously worked at the Met Office and EDF Energy, developing models for extreme values of precipitation and temperature across the UK for present-day and future timescales.

From Data Science to Data Engineering - Kerry Parker (She/Her)

Do you know the difference between Data Science and Data Engineering? Or are you considering moving from one role to the other and want to know more? During this talk, Kerry will share her experience and learnings from working in both roles and what you might expect when making the jump.

Kerry is a Data Engineer at BJSS with a background in physics and over 5 years experience as a Data Scientist across several industries. With a recent move from Data Science to Data Engineering, Kerry will share her experience of the difference in roles.

Location We'll be at AutoTrader, who are kindly supplying the venue and catering. The capacity is limited to 80.

EVENT GUIDELINES

PyDataMCR is a strictly professional event, as such professional behaviour is expected.

PyDataMCR is a chapter of PyData, an educational program of NumFOCUS and thus abides by the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct

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ACCESSIBILITY

There is a quiet room available if needed. Toilets and venue are accessible.

SPONSORS

Thank you to NUMFocus for sponsoring Meetup and further support.

Thank you to AutoTrader for their sponsorship and for the awesome venue and catering!

Thank you to Krakenflex for sponsoring PyDataMCR.

Across Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Copilot SDK, Azure AI Foundry is everywhere developers want to be. Learn how the Azure AI Foundry SDK empowers teams to access their most popular models, integrate Azure AI into their apps, and develop faster with simplified coding experiences.

To learn more, please check out these resources: * https://aka.ms/Ignite24Plan-OperationalizeYourGenAISolutions * https://aka.ms/AzureAIFoundryportalIgnite2024Blog * https://aka.ms/AzureAIFoundrySDKAnnouncement * https://aka.ms/ADAI_OpGenAISols_Plan

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀: * Rob Chambers * Dan Taylor

𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: This is one of many sessions from the Microsoft Ignite 2024 event. View even more sessions on-demand and learn about Microsoft Ignite at https://ignite.microsoft.com

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Send us a text This week we chat with Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President, Software and Chief Commercial Officer at IBM. Rob talks health and hobbies, the state of AI, and IBM's overall vision.  01:57 Maintaining Health 03:57 Where is IBM Today? 06:58 Modernizing the Data Center 08:08 Acknowledged Mistakes 10:41 The State of AI 13:48 IBM's Position on AI 17:14 The InstructLab Project 19:33 IBM's Vision and Outlook 20:43 What Must IBM Get Right? 21:40 Emerging Technologies 23:30 THINK Conference Announcements 24:25 Artificial General Intelligence 25:48 The Art of Influence 26:46 Hobbies LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robertdthomas Website: robdthomas.com/  Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.  Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Hosted by Amdaris, an Insight company - https://amdaris.com and sponsored by Data Masterminds - https://datamasterminds.io/

Data Masterminds will hold a free raffle to win a couple of ebooks - Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches (manning.com)

Amdaris, an Insight company, is your trusted partner for high velocity extended delivery teams.

Data Masterminds is a leading Microsoft Data Platform consultancy and managed service provider to customers across the globe.

Location: Amdaris, Finzels Reach, Aurora, Bristol BS1 6BX

AGENDA

18.00 – 18:30 Meet & Greet

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18:30 - 19:15 dba tools by Jess Pomfret

Folks - the wait is over! - REPLICATION commands are in dbatools.

One of the most highly requested dbatools features was for commands to manage snapshot, transactional... and even merge replication and now they're here. The wait is over!

In this session, we'll run through the available commands and work through demos including:

- Enabling publication and distribution for our instance - Creating publications - Adding articles to publications - Adding subscriptions - Confirm it's all working - Tearing it all back down again!

If you have been managing replication through the GUI and dreaming of a better way - come and join me for this action-packed session.

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19:15 - 19:45 Pizza and Networking

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19:45 - 20:30 Deploy your Azure Data Solutions with Bicep and Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions by Rob Sewell

Lets migrate to the cloud.

You can go to the portal and click in the blades and manually create all of the resources that you need. Such as Azure SQL Databases, Azure SQL VMs, Azure Arc Enabled Managed Instances, Azure Databricks or Azure Data Factory for example. You will want to ensure that they are all logging to Log Analytics and have monitoring enabled, maybe you need all of them to have Private Endpoints set up.

But you will forget something, you will mistype something, you will need to create multiple environments and they will need to be the same. Manually creating things is time consuming and mistake prone. Humans make mistakes.

Come and join me and I will show you how to deploy your data infrastructure into Azure using Bicep and Azure DevOps. How to ensure that when you deploy your resources, you automatically include Log Analytics or monitoring or add Private Endpoints.

You will learn • What Bicep is • How to compose Bicep with VS Code • How to create a pipeline in Azure DevOps to deploy the code • How to add Logging and Monitoring to your Azure Data Platform • How to create modules so that you can ensure that you deploy all of the resources that you require quickly, easily and repeatedly

You are • Someone interested in Infrastructure as Code for cloud data resources • Interested in learning new things • Want to deploy consistently to Azure • Never heard of Bicep or pipelines

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20:30 - Pub

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• Bicycle parking: We do not have arrangements with the venue for secure storage. There are public bicycle stands by Spicer and Cole/Premier Inn (to the left of Amdaris). Bicycles are left at your own risk

-------------- About Amdaris - https://amdaris.com/

We are Amdaris, an Insight company, and at our core we specialise in extending teams with highly skilled software experts. With bespoke Software Development, Product Design, Strategy and Consultation, Managed Services and Data Solutions, we seamlessly integrate into your business and culture, bringing passion, care, and technical proficiency directly to you.

About Data Masterminds - https://datamasterminds.io/

Data Masterminds is a leading Microsoft Data Platform consultancy and managed service provider to customers across the globe.

Our expert team offers comprehensive guidance and mentorship throughout the entire data lifecycle, whether your systems are on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid environment.

Utilizing our Data Platform Maturity Model, we can optimize your systems and enhance your team’s skills, ensuring your Data Platform delivers superior performance, stability, and relevance to meet your business objectives.

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Ook in November weer een meetup! Locatie nog vast te stellen (suggesties uiteraard welkom), de speakers hebben inmiddels toegezegd! Hugo neemt ons mee in de prachtige wereld van de execution plans: You have learned the relevance of execution plans. You know where to find them, and you’ve been taught the basics of how to read them. You’ve looked at some of the clean, simple execution plans that presenters used in classroom training, or at conferences, and you feel confident that you can work with them. And then you get your first problem query at your workplace, you look at its execution plan, and you just want to crawl under a rock and cry.

Real code is much more complicated than demo code. Real code translates to large, complex, and often messy execution plans. The principles of reading execution plans still apply, but the plan is large and messy and you struggle where to even begin.

If your query uses a lot of I/O, then which operators are to blame? If your query uses a lot of memory, then what area is responsible? What are some things you should always look at?

Knowing the root cause of a problem can help find a cure. Knowing where to look in a large execution plan can help you find that root cause faster!

Rob gaat dieper in op de security van Azure SQL door het gebruik van Defender: Your work for a company with much exposure in the market. You have setup several things like auditing for being able to notice that something happened to the data. Microsoft Defender for Windows is running. For Legal reasons they require more. They want you to be able to block access when someone tries to get into your system.

The company stakeholder selected a tool for this.. Defender for SQL. Choice is made upon the fact that it combines protection of data in Azure and on Premise. The requirements made up also include things like to protect only certain systems. A wish of the stakeholder is also to include the audit data in the same portal.

How does Defender for SQL work? What is the reaction time. You also struggle about the fact to do it selectively. Can this be done? How to identify data from Premise Cloud in the same Portal? Can we use this data with more solutions? Let me help you getting on the road.

If you work with SQL Server, dbatools is a lifesaver. This book will show you how to use this free and open source PowerShell module to automate just about every SQL server task you can imagine—all in just one month! In Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches you will learn how to: Perform instance-to-instance and customized migrations Automate security audits, tempdb configuration, alerting, and reporting Schedule and monitor PowerShell tasks in SQL Server Agent Bulk-import any type of data into SQL Server Install dbatools in secure environments Written by a group of expert authors including dbatools creator Chrissy LeMaire, Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches teaches you techniques that will make you more effective—and efficient—than you ever thought possible. In twenty-eight lunchbreak lessons, you’ll learn the most important use cases of dbatools and the favorite functions of its core developers. Stabilize and standardize your SQL server environment, and simplify your tasks by building automation, alerting, and reporting with this powerful tool. About the Technology For SQL Server DBAs, automation is the key to efficiency. Using the open-source dbatools PowerShell module, you can easily execute tasks on thousands of database servers at once—all from the command line. dbatools gives you over 500 pre-built commands, with countless new options for managing SQL Server at scale. There’s nothing else like it. About the Book Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches teaches you how to automate SQL Server using the dbatools PowerShell module. Each 30-minute lesson introduces a new automation that will make your daily duties easier. Following the expert advice of dbatools creator Chrissy LeMaire and other top community contributors, you’ll learn to script everything from backups to disaster recovery. What's Inside Performing instance-to-instance and customized migrations Automating security audits, best practices, and standardized configurations Administering SQL Server Agent including running PowerShell scripts effectively Bulk-importing many types of data into SQL Server Executing advanced tasks and increasing efficiency for everyday administration About the Reader For DBAs, accidental DBAs, and systems engineers who manage SQL Server. About the Authors Chrissy LeMaire is a GitHub Star and the creator of dbatools. Rob Sewell is a data engineer and a passionate automator. Jess Pomfret and Cláudio Silva are data platform architects. All are Microsoft MVPs. Quotes All SQL Server professionals should learn dbatools. With its combination of knowledge transfer, anecdotes, and hands-on labs, this book is the perfect way. - From the Foreword by Anna Hoffman, Databases Product Management, Microsoft Excellent guide for dbatools with lots of practical tips! Required reading for anyone interested in dbatools. - Ruben Vandeginste, PeopleWare A must-have for any SQL server developer. - Raushan Kumar Jha, Microsoft If you want to automate all vital aspects of SQL Server, wait no more! Learn dbatools in a month, with guidance from the best minds in the business. - Ranjit Sahai, RAM Consulting

Summary Collecting and processing metrics for monitoring use cases is an interesting data problem. It is eminently possible to generate millions or billions of data points per second, the information needs to be propagated to a central location, processed, and analyzed in timeframes on the order of milliseconds or single-digit seconds, and the consumers of the data need to be able to query the information quickly and flexibly. As the systems that we build continue to grow in scale and complexity the need for reliable and manageable monitoring platforms increases proportionately. In this episode Rob Skillington, CTO of Chronosphere, shares his experiences building metrics systems that provide observability to companies that are operating at extreme scale. He describes how the M3DB storage engine is designed to manage the pressures of a critical system component, the inherent complexities of working with telemetry data, and the motivating factors that are contributing to the growing need for flexibility in querying the collected metrics. This is a fascinating conversation about an area of data management that is often taken for granted.

Announcements

Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $100 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show! Modern Data teams are dealing with a lot of complexity in their data pipelines and analytical code. Monitoring data quality, tracing incidents, and testing changes can be daunting and often takes hours to days. Datafold helps Data teams gain visibility and confidence in the quality of their analytical data through data profiling, column-level lineage and intelligent anomaly detection. Datafold also helps automate regression testing of ETL code with its Data Diff feature that instantly shows how a change in ETL or BI code affects the produced data, both on a statistical level and down to individual rows and values. Datafold integrates with all major data warehouses as well as frameworks such as Airflow & dbt and seamlessly plugs into CI workflows. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/datafold today to start a 30-day trial of Datafold. Once you sign up and create an alert in Datafold for your company data, they will send you a cool water flask. Today’s episode of Data Engineering Podcast is sponsored by Datadog, the monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Datadog’s machine-learning based alerts, customizable dashboards, and 400+ vendor-backed integrations makes it easy to unify disparate data sources and pivot between correlated metrics and events for faster troubleshooting. By combining metrics, traces, and logs in one place, you can easily improve your application performance. Try Datadog free by starting a your 14-day trial and receive a free t-shirt once you install the agent. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/datadog today see how you can unify your monitoring today. Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Rob Skillington about Chronosphere, a scalable, reliable and customizable monitoring-as-a-service purpose built for cloud-native applications.

Interview

Introduction How did you get involved in the area of data management? Can you start by describing what you are building at Chronosphere and your motivation for turning it into a business? What are the

Summary Business intelligence efforts are only as useful as the outcomes that they inform. Power BI aims to reduce the time and effort required to go from information to action by providing an interface that encourages rapid iteration. In this episode Rob Collie shares his enthusiasm for the Power BI platform and how it stands out from other options. He explains how he helped to build the platform during his time at Microsoft, and how he continues to support users through his work at Power Pivot Pro. Rob shares some useful insights gained through his consulting work, and why he considers Power BI to be the best option on the market today for business analytics.

Announcements

Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management What are the pieces of advice that you wish you had received early in your career of data engineering? If you hand a book to a new data engineer, what wisdom would you add to it? I’m working with O’Reilly on a project to collect the 97 things that every data engineer should know, and I need your help. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/97things to add your voice and share your hard-earned expertise. When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show! Are you bogged down by having to manually manage data access controls, repeatedly move and copy data, and create audit reports to prove compliance? How much time could you save if those tasks were automated across your cloud platforms? Immuta is an automated data governance solution that enables safe and easy data analytics in the cloud. Our comprehensive data-level security, auditing and de-identification features eliminate the need for time-consuming manual processes and our focus on data and compliance team collaboration empowers you to deliver quick and valuable data analytics on the most sensitive data to unlock the full potential of your cloud data platforms. Learn how we streamline and accelerate manual processes to help you derive real results from your data at dataengineeringpodcast.com/immuta. Equalum’s end to end data ingestion platform is relied upon by enterprises across industries to seamlessly stream data to operational, real-time analytics and machine learning environments. Equalum combines streaming Change Data Capture, replication, complex transformations, batch processing and full data management using a no-code UI. Equalum also leverages open source data frameworks by orchestrating Apache Spark, Kafka and others under the hood. Tool consolidation and linear scalability without the legacy platform price tag. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/equalum today to start a free 2 week test run of their platform, and don’t forget to tell them that we sent you. You listen to this show to learn and stay up to date with what’s happening in databases, streaming platforms, big data, and everything else you need to know about modern data platforms. For more opportunities to stay up to date, gain new skills, and learn from your peers there are a growing number of virtual events that you can attend from the comfort and safety of your home. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/conferences to check out the upcoming events being offered by our partners and get registered today! Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Rob Collie about Microsoft’s Power BI platform and his

Can smartphone apps help track the spread of the novel coronavirus, privately and securely? In this report, Rob Pegoraro weighs the issue of whether mobile apps can help trace and then slow the spread of COVID-19 or will end up as just another episode of botched government procurement and application of technology. Apple and Google have recently devised a system to track COVID-19 infections anonymously using Bluetooth with iOS and Android smartphones. This development points a spotlight on a needed debate about balancing privacy and collecting useful data. Do privacy-optimizing techniques, such as federated learning and differential privacy, offer useful alternatives to building centralized databases that may later invite abuse? This report takes a close look at this subject and then provides recommendations for software developers, public health authorities, and elected officials who want to build on the Apple-Google API. Understand the scope of the problem, including how contact tracing can help slow and stop outbreaks Take a closer look at Apple and Google’s proposed remedy Learn how other countries including Singapore, India, France, and Australia have traced the spread of COVID-19 Examine the risk factors for adopting and using a decentralized system like the Apple-Google app