US President talks about Data Science

Check out the video of US President talking about Data Science and the first Chief Data Scientist of the USA talks about his mission.

Oracle ACEs at OUG Ireland 2015

The annual Oracle User Group in Ireland Conference will be on Thursday 19th March. This year the conference will be held in the Croke Park conference centre. This conference centre is only a short taxi ride from Dublin Airport and Dublin City Centre.

If you are planning a hotel stay for the conference I would recommend staying in a hotel in the city centre and get a taxi to/from the conference venue.

We have a large number of Oracle ACEs presenting at the conference. The following table lists the ACEs, their twitter handle and their website.

Oracle ACE	Type of ACE	Twitter Name	Blog / Web Site
Brendan Tierney	ACE Director	@brendantierney	http://www.oralytics.com
Debra Lilley	ACE Director	@debralilley	http://www.debrasoracle.blogspot.ie/
Jonathan Lewis	ACE Director	@JLOracle	http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/
Tim Hall	ACE Director	@oraclebase	http://oracle-base.com/
Alex Nuijten	ACE Director	@alexnuijten	http://nuijten.blogspot.com/
Dhananjay Papde	ACE Associate
Stewart Bryson	ACE Director	@stewartbryson	http://www.redpillanalytics.com/
Antony Heljula	ACE	@aheljula	http://www.peakindicators.com/
Gurcan Orhan	ACE Director	@gurcan_orhan	https://gurcanorhan.wordpress.com/
Heli Helskyaho	ACE Director	@HeliFromFinland	https://helifromfinland.wordpress.com/
Marco Gralike	ACE Director	@mgralike	http://www.xmldb.nl
Roel Hartman	ACE Director	@roelh	http://roelhartman.blogspot.com/
Martin Widlake	ACE	@mdwidlake	https://mwidlake.wordpress.com/
Liron Amitzi	ACE	@amitzil	http://www.dbaces.com/
David Kurtz	ACE Director	@davidmkurtz	http://www.go-faster.co.uk/
Marcin Przepiorowski	ACE	@pioro	http://oracleprof.blogspot.com/

Make sure you check out the full agenda for the conference by clicking on the following image. Plus there is a full day session on Friday 20th March with Maria Colgan on the Oracle In-Memory option.

My OTN 2 Minute Tech Tip: Predictive Queries

A few days ago I recorded a 2-minute tech tip with Bob Hubbard of OTN.

My topic was on Predictive Queries which are a new feature in the Oracle 12c Database.

The challenge was to talk about the topic within 2 minutes. That is a lot harder than you time. Believe me.

Check out the video on the Bobs OTN 2-Minute Tech Tip channel or click on the link below.

It was fun doing this and hopefully I get a chance to do another video with Bob.

Here is a screen capture of when things were being recorded.