Diva Tech Talk Podcast

Diva Tech Talk interviewed the mother/daughter data-driven duo of Amy O’Connor, Big Data Evangelist at Cloudera (www.cloudera.com), and Danielle Dean, Data Scientist Lead at Microsoft (www.microsoft.com.) Amy hails from the era where punch cards reigned supreme. Danielle experienced the dichotomy of more complex and paradoxically easier data. Both share a common fascination with how data helps humans make better decisions, in business and beyond “When I first entered technology, I was much more focused on writing software that was used to run mainframe computers,” Amy explained. When she started, it was well before computers became ubiquitous. She obtained dual undergraduate degrees in computer science and electrical engineering, and then her MBA, “so that I could really figure out how to apply technology to business opportunities.” Amy migrated from software development to IT program management to engineering leadership to business strategy roles and marketing, and finally “landed” in the field of big data.