An Englishman Abroad – Day One

Straight from the successful Webtrends Engage London, I find myself in Washington DC for the Teradata Partners (#tdpug) conference and Teradata Cares. It’ll be quite the week – I’m also speaking the eMetrics on Wednesday. Will be posting some recaps of the shows here and as they happen on Twitter.

I started my last presentation at Engage with the strains of “Hip To Be Square” by Huey Lewis and the news an ironic doth of the cap at the perceived geekiness of ...

the practice of using data, something that the 2500 practitioners here in DC would be acutely aware of.

That being said, I chatted over breakfast with some guys from the NFL players association all ex pros from the sixties and seventies, that’s the beauty of these giant conference centres separate societies homogenized into one  (I think one was called Ed “Too Tall” Jones apparently he is famous. But what would I know – in the UK we have REAL football) .

They asked what I did and the discussion of data came up, obviously as sports professionals they also live by data and statistics and were extremely interested by the fact that thousands of people got together to speak about it, In fact they thought it was COOL.

One guy who was wearing a ring similar to one I saw Dan Marino wear in Ace Ventura – Pet Detective said ” We all live by numbers in some way”  To quote Huey for the final time; “Take it from me, its hip to be square” 

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