Beans, Band-Aids, and Bullets: How Your Data Can Work for You

Listen in as Carolyn and Willie find out the true power of data. Sean Applegate, CTO of SwishData, explains how data can be utilized across an entire mission to empower the warfighter. For more resources and links mentioned in today's episode, please visit https://tech-transforms.captivate.fm/episode/your-data-can-work-for-you (https://tech-transforms.captivate.fm/episode/your-data-can-work-for-you) Episode Table of Contents[01:00] Smart People With Great Ideas [07:29] Your Data Can Work for You up to Some Extent [14:15] Securing the Application So Your Data Can Work for You [22:08] Eight Guiding Principles [28:03] Applicability of AI Episode Links and Resources Smart People With Great IdeasCarolyn: I'm Carolyn Ford and this week, my guest co-host is Willie Hicks, public sector CTO at Dynatrace. I'm super excited that we get to talk to Sean Applegate, CTO of https://swishdata.com/2021/05/qlik-insights/ (SwishData). Sean: I'm excited to be here, it should be a blast. Carolyn: Honestly, this is the best part of my week. This is the best part of what I do. I love talking to really smart people with great ideas about how technology can better our lives and how the government specifically can do that. So, Sean, you've written a lot of stuff. You're a pretty prolific writer, blogs articles, and a recent blog that I saw, I'm not going to lie, it kind of broke my head. It was a lot of technical stuff, but there were a couple of things in it that were kind of gotchas for me. I'd love for you to drill down into a little bit. At the beginning of your blog, you write, the name of the blog is Optimizing Mission Outcomes with Intelligent Insights. In one of the beginning paragraphs, you say transforming the DoD to a data-centric organization requires that data is visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, interoperable, and secure. So I would love for you to dive into that. Sean: I would say the one thing that DoD is noticing, and you'll see this with some of their DevSecOps reference architectures