Data Reveal

Mark Fedeli, Courtney Hastings and Andrew Churchill
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Data Reveal is a podcast about why data is remaking our world in its digital image. It explores data literacy and perceptions about data, unique use cases of data analytics across market sectors, and the role of next-level alliances to protect the free world from autocratic regimes.

  1. 06/01/2021

    00. Introduction

    Data Reveal

    1 min

  2. 07/08/2021

    S1Ep01. Welcome to Data Reveal

    🤓 Think big, start small and keep asking questions that make you grow. 00:36 😇 The world is being remade in data's image, and we have a chance to remake the world in a more humane image. 02:57 🗽 People across the government are doing useful and important things with data and technology. 06:13 ⚡Use cases: Robotic process automation became a hot topic 09:49 🧐 On data literacy and leading organizations from a data perspective.  14:43 ⚖️ Balancing risk vs. speed is not much different from risk vs. reward. 18:21 🕵️‍♀️  Is hiding or hoarding your data really moving the mission forward? 21:43 📚 Kevin Hanegan’s new book Turning Data into Wisdom is a must-read. 24:28 👥  Let the data reveal even what is uncomfortable. 27:04 The article mentioned: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/us/police-resignations-protests-asheville.html?referringSource=articleShare Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.   Mark Fedeli LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeli Twitter: @markfedeli   Andrew Churchill LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/ Twitter: @FAChurchill   Courtney Hastings: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastings Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

    28 min

  3. 08/25/2021

    S1Ep02. Inclusion or Bust?: Discussing Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

    👉 Reflection and activation: 20 years after 9/11. 00:35 🧐 Politics is a profound tension, a tension between competing ideals and values. 01:20 💬 Data related to domestic violent extremism.03:12 👋 Welcome, Dr. Daveed! 04:15 🤔 DVE’s are a growing challenge and wrong usage of data. 06:06  🖥️ Daveed and Mark ‘met’ via a counterterrorism blog in 2005. 08:59 😮‍💨 Mark’s experience on 9/11 and the vivid memories that have lasted. 6:48 🏛️ Andrew was at a conference in Baltimore with the Social Security Administration and his work with the government after 9/11. 11:06 ✌️ Courtney was a senior in college and eventually began working on interoperability issues that caused the death of so many first responders during 9/11. 12:16 ⚖️ Daveed was in law school at NYU, and 9/11 interrupted the course of his life and career. 13:09 6️⃣ A positive outlook: Six things that have gone right tactically after 9/11/2001. 16:15 📱 Post January 6th: the maturation of technologically empowered mobilization. 21:11 🗣️ Social media can be used to not only mobilize movements quickly but also to predict actions and help prevent them. 25:12 ↔️ Daveed’s papers and overviews of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism and the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement. 26:30 🇺🇸 Militant anti-fascists and anarchists in the United States and predictions for the future. 29:46 ❗ Drifting to extremes: Our reactions are immediate and based on scant information on social media. 31:44 🤓 The quality of the information we all receive: basic critical thinking skills and media literacy are crucial now. 35:39 Articles mentioned: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/14/skinheads-saints-and-national-socialists/ https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/14/behind-the-black-bloc/ Connect with Daveed: https://valensglobal.com/who-we-are/#team https://www.fdd.org/issue/domestic-extremism/ Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.   Mark Fedeli LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeli Twitter: @markfedeli   Andrew Churchill LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/ Twitter: @FAChurchill   Courtney Hastings: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastings Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

    40 min

  4. 09/08/2021

    S1Ep03. Inclusion or Bust?: Discussing Inclusive Nationalism with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross part 2

    ⚠️ Reflection after 20 years of 9/11: We are at a time of profound tension. 00:36 🤔 We need outside-of-the-box thinking, but a controversial view of virtually anything in 2021 can cost you your job and professional status, and that is not healthy. 03:30 🗽 Buiding inclusive nationalism and challenges around it: It's important that we have a national identity that we're proud of. 06:01 🤓 Moving forward: the raising of the right values, reducing polarization, diversity, openness within generations, and what are the KPIs? 09:41 😇 KPIs for measuring inclusive nationalism: A sense of national pride and acceptance of people with different views. 12:57 🔊 US-ness as a critical KPI: the noise of data surrounding us is a big challenge to overcome. 15:27🌞 We need hope, for an inclusive future, for our nation. 18:03 🙌 Takeaways: Ownership, humanizing others, and taking other opinions in. 20:45 🤩Transactional is not the same thing as transcendent. Togetherness isn't just some handout. 25:46 👉 Connect with Daveed:https://valensglobal.com/who-we-are/#teamhttps://www.fdd.org/issue/domestic-extremism/ 📰 Daveed’s Articles:https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/14/skinheads-saints-and-national-socialists/https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/14/behind-the-black-bloc/ 👍 Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney. 🙃 Mark FedeliLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeliTwitter: @markfedeli ☀️ Andrew ChurchillLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/Twitter: @FAChurchill 🤓 Courtney Hastings:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastingsTwitter: @chatrhstrategic

    28 min

  5. 09/22/2021

    S1Ep04. An Inflection Point in Data with Chris Wilson

    Welcome, Chris. 02:20 Chris’s career journey: Joined the army, his time in active duty, and his work with the Threat Reduction Agenecy.03:29 Going to Stratcom, the Missile Defense Agency, USSTRATCOM, and the Qlick Federal team.06:12 Defense industrial base manufacturers ensure supply chains because any issue can cause an immediate impact on real-world missions.  08:36 Experiencing 9/11 at a Superfund site and his unit’s work.10:26 Impactful things after 9/11: the communication expedition for data and communication between federal agencies and across different systems. 15:19 How do you measure interoperability: being able to communicate with the data in different mission sets. 19:51 Having everyone operating from a single source of truth is crucial. 21:50 How do we protect individual rights while protecting the sovereignty of the nation and society as a collective? 24:07 Importance of leadership in bringing data across the multitude of agencies systems and operational domains 30:32 Are we at a point where we can visualize information in these sort of ‘war rooms’ like in the movies? 34:05 Two driving forces are the functionals leading up by highlighting what we don't know and top parts of government leading down by saying, ‘This is where we have to get to.’ 36:30 Suicide and sexual harassment prevention examples. 39:13 Building teams around data and the role of the translator who sits between the data scientist and the business or mission owner. 44:21 From a leadership standpoint if you're going to lead up you want translators on your team. 46:18 Define success: what are you looking to achieve? 47:39 Chris’ AHA moment: Key thing to touch on in the future is data literacy. 49:39 Connect with Chris Wilson LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopher-wilson-pmp-45993a3 Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.   Mark Fedeli LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeli Twitter: @markfedeli   Andrew Churchill LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/ Twitter: @FAChurchill   Courtney Hastings: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastings Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

    51 min

  6. 10/06/2021

    S1Ep05. Trustworthy AI and Women in Data with Monica McEwen of Deloitte

    👉 9/11  was a turning point in the government's willingness to try and use data more effectively. 03:16 💫 The pandemic has created a significant turn to data and cultural change within organizations. 04:32 👔 Requirements for data are now being driven much more by the business and not just IT today. 05:28 ⏳There are so many new technologies that exist today that make data analytics more powerful.  08:05 💨 Moving to the cloud will enable agencies to move faster, remove technical barriers, and enable better data sharing, ultimately increasing the speed of decisions. 09:35 🤖 There's a vast misunderstanding of AI: building a trustworthy AI pipeline and describing AI in a more tangible way to increase acceptance. 12:11 ⚡ The world's going to change in the next five years, and AI will be at the center of it. 14:36 🤨 Challenges faced with large-scale implementations of AI and data in the federal government. 15:44 🚦 Examples of using data and AI from Arizona and Las Vegas. 16:43 💻 About younger generations that are being raised with technology and STEM education. 18:20 😇 The gender gap in companies is going to close: The rise of women in technological fields. 22:01 📊 General inequity is being looked at more closely: Interesting use cases of data to drive change. 26:12 📈 Investing in explainable AI, having confidence in data models, and building foundations. 27:59 🏭 Data integration across all the silos that exist and creating a centralized data fabric is critical. 30:12 🙃 The next level of cognitive capability is coming. 31:51 🙌 All the use cases: from IT, through enterprise, government, defense, etc. 33:52 🎿 Lesson: "Don't get too far over your skis" 35:25 1️⃣ First step: let's get the data integrated to the point that we can get the data into the hands of the decision-makers. 37:58 Connect with Monica McEwen: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/profiles/monica-mcewen.html Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.   Mark Fedeli LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeli Twitter: @markfedeli   Andrew Churchill LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/ Twitter: @FAChurchill   Courtney Hastings: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastings Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

    40 min

  7. 10/20/2021

    S1Ep06. A New Self-Health Platform with Femi Ayanbadejo

    🤝 How Mark and Femi met. 00:35 🙃 Entrepreneurs, like Femi, give us a different way of looking at disruptions. 01:59 🏈 Femi is a former NFL player. 04:09 ☯️ Blending Eastern and Western philosophy and, medicine to maximize his career. 05:17 4️⃣ Four levers of self-health: Survival, information quality, awareness, and traditional health performance metrics. 07:17 🧘‍♂️Health and emotions are connected: Struggling through anxiety with exercising. 10:09 🤗 “We have the ability to heal others and heal ourselves. And when we don't, we ask for help.” 10:51 🎯 Take care of yourself and then of others: “Self-awareness, plus selflessness equals self-actualization” 13:48 🖐 Five stages of survival: Survive, assess, learn, deploy, and share. 15:21 🤕 Mental health drives everything, and non-addressed trauma creates deeper issues. 18:29 📱 HealthReel app: getting body composition assessment on any smart device and the holistic component. 20:57 👆 We normalize sub-optimal living but in reality, it's not normal. 26:01 👌 Femi has heard it all: myths and issues he is addressing in a 52-week health journey. 26:55 🙅 Giving people information, raw data without education, and entertainment value is not enough. 29:30 😎 Government, military, and corporate fitness all can be addressed with the app: b2b, b2c, and direct to consumer approach. 30:21 💚 Breaking things down on a human level--not an occupational level--to help people be better. 34:17 🤯 Preventing depression, obesity, suicide in the military with data from the HealthReel app. 38:14 ⚙️ Focus on the NASA algorithm: body fat and corrected BMI. 40:27 📊 Data literacy and evolution of what types of metrics are acceptable. 41:04 🤩 Empowerment for self-health, through data, is so exciting. 43:24 📱 How to get the app? 46:04  👉 Download HealthReel: www.healthreel.com 🔗Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.   ✅ Mark Fedeli LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeli Twitter: @markfedeli   🅰️ Andrew Churchill LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/ Twitter: @FAChurchill   ☑️ Courtney Hastings: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastings Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

    48 min

  8. 11/03/2021

    S1Ep07. Creative Disruption for the Next Federal Workforce with Monica Breidenbach

    🌎 Changes in the data world. 02:46 👉 The great resignation and the talent war are not that surprising.  03:19 🏛️ The federal government is the nation's largest employer. 04:53 📋 A need for a centralized dashboard for both comparison and benchmarking purposes. 06:25 📈 Agencies are not using the same HR systems, and a generalized platform would be beneficial. 07:56 🤔 How to bring a more diverse population into the workforce? 10:23 🧑‍💻 We need to grow and include more digital native Gen Z’s into the government workforce. 12:47 🌊 The wave of the future: being more flexible, allowing remote work, and understanding who Gen Z’s really are. 16:20 👴 “My grandfather's workplace”: looking at the changes in the workforce throughout history and accepting the change. 19:15 🤓 Young people don’t know where to apply for government jobs. 23:44 🧱 Is entering the federal government a brick wall? 27:47 ▶️ Andrew is hiring for roles in the Qlik team: the labor market is incredibly tight. 29:55 🦾 Matrix structures vs. stifling outdated policies and criteria: creating new organizational structures 32:04 🕵️‍♀️ Are we identifying data literacy as a skill we need? 36:05 ❓ How do we quantify data literacy and segment it? 39:14 🖐 From hierarchical to viral or visual: Five things we all need. 42:46 🤩 Monica wants to inspire individuals to serve a greater good. 44:48 🔗Connect with Monica  Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-breidenbach 🔗Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.   ✅ Mark Fedeli LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeli Twitter: @markfedeli   🅰️ Andrew Churchill LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fachurchill/ Twitter: @FAChurchill   ☑️ Courtney Hastings: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastings Twitter: @chatrhstrategic

    48 min
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Data Reveal is a podcast about why data is remaking our world in its digital image. It explores data literacy and perceptions about data, unique use cases of data analytics across market sectors, and the role of next-level alliances to protect the free world from autocratic regimes.

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  • Creator
    Mark Fedeli, Courtney Hastings and Andrew Churchill
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Mark Fedeli, 2021
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