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Home Comfort Tactics

Eric Gans -Certified Home Energy Auditor

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This podcast will help homeowners understand the places and ways in which their homes are losing energy and it is not as obvious as it may seem. Have you heard of home performance? It is not new, but it is about to explode on the scene! Listen to recorded discussions about what we find in the Maryland housing stock that leads to nagging comfort problems and high energy usage. Insulation, air sealing, duct leakage, blower door testing, and many other building science topics will be covered, i ...
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The Connected Data Podcast

Connected Data World

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Welcome to the Welcome to the Connected Data Podcast. Connecting Data, People and Ideas since 2016. Community, Events, Thought Leadership. For those who use the Relationships, Meaning and Context in Data to achieve Great things. Bringing together Leaders and Innovators in Knowledge Graphs Graph Databases Graph Analytics / Data Science / AI Semantic Technology Stay tuned and dive into our diverse content. Engage, network, learn and share ideas and best practices. Presentations, Masterclasses, ...
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Connected Data is coming back to London in 2024, on December 11-13. Join us for a tour de force in all things Knowledge Graph, Graph Analytics / Al / Data Science / Databases and Semantic Technology. Call for submissions and volunteers, program committee, chairs, and initial lineup have been announced. This online roundtable highlights the Connecte…
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What does reasoning have to offer? How does it add so much value to data? Who is using it and why should I care? All questions that we’re delighted to answer. Access to data has exploded over the last decade, but it leaves us asking what to make of it all? Often lacking quality, reasoning is required to enrich data by adding context and insights, s…
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An AI tsunami is on the rise, and the past few months have only amplified it. To survive it and thrive in tomorrow’s economy, organizations big and small must rethink the way they do business. To do this, a radical shift in the way they work with their data is needed. And no, we don’t mean Big Data. By now, most organizations have gotten their Big …
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Graph-based technologies became first-class citizens in various industries and many practical applications. Still, building performant and reliable machine learning pipelines over graph data, e.g., graph machine learning applications and products, remains a non-trivial task. This panel discussion brings together academic and industrial experts from…
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After the amazing breakthroughs of machine learning (deep learning or otherwise) in the past decade, the shortcomings of machine learning are also becoming increasingly clear: unexplainable results, data hunger and limited generalisability are all becoming bottlenecks. In this talk we will look at how the combination with symbolic AI (in the form o…
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This podcast episode from "Home Comfort Tactics" delves into the story of a homeowner in Rockville, MD, named Alex, who faced a perplexing condensation issue in their new home. Despite numerous consultations with experts, the problem persisted, causing discomfort and energy inefficiency. The host, an experienced energy auditor, was approached to he…
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What do graphs have to do with novel hardware architectures for AI workloads? Graph processing is the key to unlocking new architectures, as much as new architectures can boost execution of graph-oriented workloads. As machine learning-powered applications are proliferating, the workloads that are created in order to serve their requirements are ta…
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In this episode of Home Comfort Tactics, we dive into the Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates (HEEHR) program, a cornerstone of the Inflation Reduction Act to make homes more energy-efficient. We explore how the program's $4.5 billion fund is helping low- and moderate-income households afford crucial upgrades like heat pumps, electric stoves…
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While mathematicians have used graph theory since the 18th century to solve problems, the software patterns for graph data are new to most developers. To enable "mass adoption" of graph technology, we need to establish the right abstractions, access APIs, and data models. RDF triples, while of paramount importance in establishing RDF graph semantic…
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What you may find a little different about my approach to explaining the Inflation Reduction Act HOMES Rebate program is that I try remembering when I was a homeowner and a window contractor. I did not know or understand anything about the whole-house approach or how it could change how I think about comfort and energy use in my home. When some of …
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Overview of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (H.R. 5376): Two years ago, the United States government introduced the Inflation Reduction Act, a bold move with a whopping $8.8 billion earmarked specifically for Home Energy Rebates. It is a significant investment in Home Energy Rebates and should highlight the importance of getting these improveme…
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Taxonomies are the duct tape of connected data. They seem simple, flexible, and familiar. They are widely used. And they seem to work across many use cases and many domains. But when looked at in more detail, taxonomies turn out to be crude tools for knowledge organization that are very difficult to create, to scale, to adapt, to align, and to buil…
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Thank you for listening! If you would like to learn more about my home performance company or get in touch, please visit https://www.hometrustremodeling.com or https://ericgans.com. Unlock Your Home's Full Potential - Hometrust Remodeling, Your Trusted Partner in Maryland Home Performance Learn more at homeairleakagetest.com Watch this stuff on You…
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What is Connected Data, and how is it interesting from a market point of view? Knowledge Graphs have reached peak Gartner hype. Graph data science and graph AI are the fastest growing areas in AI. Graph databases are the fastest growing category in enterprise software. Add to this the historical foundations of graph algorithms and analytics and sem…
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I am a Certified Energy Auditor in Maryland. I have had several revelations over the past several years, and this important one is about replacement windows. I am a contractor and a homeowner who fixates on personal comfort in my living space. I like to share my experiences with home comfort and remodeling so that you can make decisions that are li…
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If you live in Maryland and want to learn more about the insulation R-values you need in the different areas of your home, this video podcast can help. You need to measure insulation through a slightly different lens. Rather than focusing on which insulation is better, achieving the recommended R-value for specific areas of your home's shell is mor…
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Getting a home energy audit is one of those things that many do not fully comprehend the benefits of until the assessment is complete. At that time, a well-trained energy consultant will be able to walk you around your home and illuminate issues that you have likely been walking right past for many weeks, months, or in some cases YEARS! Don't wait …
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Continue your journey to better home comfort with part two of my fall bucket list of things you can do to make your home more comfortable. I have helped hundreds of Maryland homeowners attain a better quality of life regarding their home comfort. This podcast's mission is to break through to homeowners and help shape a new way to think about your l…
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Start your journey to better home comfort with my fall bucket list of things you can do to make your home more comfortable. I have helped hundreds of Maryland homeowners attain a better quality of life regarding their home comfort. This podcast's mission is to break through to homeowners and help shape a new way to think about your living space, wh…
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This episode of Home Comfort Tactics shares several exciting and interesting ways you can think about your house as a system. Chances are that your house will have at least one of the things on the list that might be neglected. I was once an unsuspecting homeowner (and contractor simultaneously) living in uncomfortable houses and paying for new HVA…
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As an energy auditor, certified through the local Maryland utility, I am responsible to help homeowners figure out solutions for their damp or cold crawl space and explain to them in easy-to-understand ways the benefits of insulating it right. 00:00 How Can this Episode Help? 02:48 Recent Crawl Space Visit 04:52 The Reason this Encapsulated Crawl S…
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We learn to get to the root of the problem in grade school, and it can apply to many aspects of our lives including issues around the house that don't get the correct diagnosis and reappear. I used this podcast episode to touch on a few key points related to a recent situation that unfolded between May and June 2023. The homeowner in Rockville Mary…
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I will tell you right now - this study proves that you should not replace your windows if you want to make your home more comfortable! This study shows that replacement windows only reduce drafts by 6% compared with other, less expensive retrofit plans, including sealing the attic and other important places like the top of the foundation wall in a …
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Performing a home energy audit without proper testing equipment or training is not possible, however every homeowner can look for these five signs to decide if getting a comprehensive home energy audit is worth the investment. In order to decide if you need a comprehensive home energy audit, it is helpful to have a general idea of it's overall func…
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JSON is the de facto data format for developers today because it’s easy to use, but it’s not without its issues. JSON-LD builds on top of JSON, and has also been called "the gateway drug" for Linked Data. Our panel of experts explores the many facets of JSON-LD and how it can facilitate enterprise data integration. Featuring Kurt Cagle, Freelance T…
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If you just bought a home - congrats! Chances are very high that you got a home inspection during the process, and it has a list of things you need to do to keep it up to "code". But I am willing to bet that the list lacks many essential items to make your home super cozy and energy efficient. Here is a link to the podcast file: https://residential…
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This week we discuss the importance of choosing the right energy auditor to maximize your available incentives. We touch on encapsulating your attic compared with not and some of the advantages you get - going either way. Overall, it was a fun episode with several good nuggets of information, including a little bit about roofing. Learn more at home…
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Graph Analytics has long demonstrated that it solves real-world problems including Fraud, Ranking, Recommendation, text summarization and other NLP tasks. More recently, Graph Machine Learning applied directly on graphs using graph algorithms and machine learning, has been demonstrating significant advantages in solving the same problems as graph a…
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2023 should be the year you start looking at your home and comfort in three-dimensional ways. You can make intelligent, inexpensive upgrades with the proper guidance. As a certified home energy auditor, I see the same problems repeatedly. The most important thing to understand is that many of the issues I point out to homeowners are hiding in plain…
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Maryland homeowners turn to their HVAC contractors when the temperature inside heats up. But, it stops there after HVAC people install the machine and controls. They have very little to do with the comfort level in your home. It's a good practice to focus on the shell around your home. A well-sealed and insulated shell can play a big part in adequa…
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In this third podcast episode, Eric and Kyle team up to discuss how they got into the industry, which leads to healthy conversations about air sealing, blower door testing, HERS Rating, the hospitality industry, and replacement windows. Join us to talk about building science and learn new ways to think about how you improve your home. Learn more at…
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Are your personal data, documents, files and messages all over the place? Do you find yourself switching between applications, devices and files, unable to remember or find what you were looking for? Would it make you feel better to know that it's not entirely your fault, and maybe there is a way out? You know the stories about how the volume of da…
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In this episode, we're shining a light on a little-known program that's making a big difference for Maryland homeowners. The Pepco Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® Program offers comprehensive energy audits and financial incentives to help homeowners make their homes more energy-efficient. Despite the program's potential to save homeowners hundre…
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The AI industry is now facing its next big challenge. What are the necessary properties of representational structures that could allow vast amounts of data become meaningful in the human sense of the word? How can knowledge architectures be constructed in a way that allows for both the efficiency and effectiveness of models they support? In his Co…
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Most Major Companies are Exploring or Using Knowledge Graphs. Knowledge Graphs are at the top of the Garter AI Hype Cycle. But Knowledge Graphs are much more than hype! Knowledge graphs are a mature technology used in large scale deployments. Anyone heard of Google, Facebook, Alibaba, or Uber? Knowledge graphs address major weaknesses in traditiona…
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Fall is the time for not only pumpkin spice and raking leaves, but also to take the opportunity to button up a few key places around your home while the weather is nice. Learn about 5 things you can do around your house to make for a more comfortable winter and save energy at the same time! The 5 Things 1. Target Recessed Lights 2. Seal the Attic F…
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Join us as we have a sneak peek through the Connected Data World 2021 program, and discuss the Connected Data landscape. Our Program Committee members go through the 50+ sessions and 70+ speakers, and talk about: The Connected Data landscape Knowledge Graphs Graph Databases Graph Analytics Graph Data Science & Semantic Technology Topics, speakers a…
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What does graph have to do with machine learning? A lot, actually. And it goes both ways Machine learning can help bootstrap and populate knowledge graphs. The information contained in graphs can boost the efficiency of machine learning approaches. Machine learning, and its deep learning subdomain, make a great match for graphs. Machine learning on…
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Personalized medicine. Predictive call centers. Digital twins for IoT. Predictive supply chain management, and domain-specific Q&A applications. These are just a few AI-driven applications organizations across a broad range of industries are deploying. Graph databases and Knowledge Graphs are now viewed as a must-have by Enterprises serious about l…
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Connected Data encompasses data acquisition and data management requirements from a range of areas including the Semantic Web, Linked Data, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Representation and many others. Yet for the true value of many of these visions to be realised both within the public domain and within organisations requires the assembly of oft…
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"The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st Century is to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker", said Peter F. Drucker in 1999, and time has proven him right. Even NASA is no exception, as it faces a number of challenges. NASA has hundreds of millions of documents, reports, project data, les…
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As the interest in, and hype around, Knowledge Graphs is growing, there is also a growing need for sharing experience and best practices around them. Let’s talk about definitions, best practices, hype, and reality. What is a Knowledge Graph? How can I use a Knowledge Graph & how do i start building one? This panel is an opportunity to hear from ind…
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May graph technology improve the deployment of humanitarian projects? The goal of using what we call “Graphs for good at Action Against Hunger” is to be more efficient and transparent, and this can have a crucial impact on people’s lives. Is there common behaviour factors between different projects? Can elements of different resources or projects b…
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Big Data has transformed the world big time. It led many companies to strongly focus on data analytics, trying to collect and control gigantic amounts of data. After years in the rat race, several of them are slowly realizing that the continuous striving for having more data than others is maybe not the most meaningful business objective for everyo…
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AI is transforming the financial media industry, impacting everything from content creation to consumption trends. Childs shares insights into how Dow Jones is reimagining what the news looks like. Learn how Dow Jones’ knowledge graph platform – powered by Stardog – enables the company to unify structured and unstructured data from a vast range of …
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“Knowledge Graph” is an overloaded term. Today Knowledge Graphs are becoming mainstream, and as this happens, more and more people associate Knowledge Graphs with data models, semantics, knowledge management, and ontologies For many other people, however, Knowledge Graphs still mean Google Search Info Boxes, panels, SERPs, and SEO (Search Engine Op…
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The Financial Industry Business Ontology, FIBO, is a business conceptual model of how all financial instruments, business entities and processes work in the financial industry. FIBO combines existing financial industry data standards with ontological approaches. It has been developed by the EDM Council, a non-profit global association created to ad…
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