Jennifer's average day

Jennifer Reif: I'm still discovering what average is, but often I get home and start to figure out a particular application or demo that I'm going to be doing for the next presentation.

I spin up a new instance, pump some data into it, start writing queries, and figure out what's interesting, and what I'm trying to get out of this data.

I think, "What would people find interesting about this? Are there some other things that I can do as well? Can I add plugins? Can I run algorithms on this data? Can I pipe in a vendor integration to pipe this information out to a visualization or to another analysis tool of some sort?"

Next, I start putting together a presentation. I usually have a little bit of intro, then I walk through the meat of the technical information, and finally, I give some sort of demo, wrapping up the wow factor there at the end.

The week before I go out of town and present, I start rehearsing and walking...