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Joel Cochran

Joel Cochran

Movie buff, Bacon lover, coffee geek, and pool player. I also do some coding and data stuff.

Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States

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Joel Cochran is the Chief Technology Officer for Causeway Solutions, a data and analytics firm based in New Orleans. Prior to joining Causeway, he served as a Technical Evangelist on the Microsoft Campaign Technology Services team and worked with numerous partners during the 2016 Presidential Campaign cycle. A developer since the late 90s, Joel has been dedicated to the Microsoft stack since 2003. His most recent experience is in leveraging Microsoft Azure’s many features and services to build innovative data solutions. Over the years he has ranged through a variety of web, desktop, and database development tools and environments. An accomplished writer and speaker, Joel loves to teach and was a 6-time Microsoft MVP prior to joining the company. He lives in Harrisonburg, VA, with his family, and is an avid pool player.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Creating an ADF Pipeline Management System

Azure Data Factory is an ETL game changer. While it has an impressive list of connection types and an extensive feature set, one thing it lacks is a comprehensive job management system. Real world ETL workloads require an additional layer of control, configuration, and oversight that doesn't exist out of the box. In this session, we will discuss the components and techniques involved in building a robust pipeline and queue management system.

Getting Started with Azure Data Factory Data Flows

Azure Data Factory Data Flows (ADFDF) provides the ability to move and transform data as part of an Azure Data Factory pipeline. This session will introduce you to the basics of ADFDF, including how to: define Sources and Sinks, transform data values, add and delete columns, filter data, leverage the new rule-based mapping feature, edit the code behind, and more.

Real World Azure Data Factory Data Flows

Azure Data Factory Data Flows (ADFDF) provide the ability to move and transform data as part of Azure Data Factory pipelines. This session will introduce you to the features of ADFDF by walking through a series of real world production scenarios. Examples include parsing fixed width text files, configuring data sets, handling unknown schemas and file layouts, working with very wide column counts, dynamically creating tables in Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and more.

Understanding Azure Data Factory v2

Whether it is enterprise, government, or science and research, big data and analytics projects require processing large volumes of data. Data ingestion, movement, and transformation operations consume significant time and resources. This is exacerbated by the fact that in today's rapidly shifting ecosystem, data comes from a wide variety of sources: structured and unstructured, logs, streaming data, and more. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is an Azure service that allows you to create pipelines for automatically ingesting, moving, and processing large volumes of data. In this session, you will learn the basics of ADF v2, how to create and schedule pipelines, process data from various sources, and how to create custom activities with C#.

Common Patterns in Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory has evolved into a rich and highly functional data engineering environment. In this session we will review a handful of workflow and pipeline patterns that occur on a regular basis, and discuss practical tips for how to implement their solutions.

Azure Synapse: Firing on all Neurons

Azure Synapse represents a new generation of data warehousing capabilities. Traditional Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake Storage, Spark, pipeline orchestration, and much more, are all unified under the Azure Synapse umbrella. This session will provide you an understanding of what Synapse is and what it can do for you, with a particular focus on three execution engines: SQL Pools, SQL On-Demand, and Spark.

CFS - Fall 2019 Reston Azure DataFest: Big Data & Analytics Conference Sessionize Event

October 2019 Reston, Virginia, United States

CodeStock 2019 Sessionize Event

April 2019 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

CFS - Spring 2019 Reston Azure DataFest: Big Data & Analytics Conference Sessionize Event

March 2019 Reston, Virginia, United States

Reston 2018 Azure DataFest - Big Data and Advanced Analytics Conference Sessionize Event

October 2018 Reston, Virginia, United States

Atlanta 2018 Azure DataFest: Microsoft Azure Advanced Analytics and Big Data Conference Sessionize Event

August 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Joel Cochran

Movie buff, Bacon lover, coffee geek, and pool player. I also do some coding and data stuff.

Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States

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