Best data.world Podcasts (2024)

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From Moneyball to Gen AI 37:37

25m ago37:37

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Eric Avidon is a journalist at TechTarget who's interviewed Tristan a few times, and now Tristan gets to flip the script and interview Eric. Eric is a journalist veteran, covering everything from finance to the Boston Red Sox, but now he spends a lot of time with vendors in the data space and has a broad view of what's going on. Eric and Tristan di…

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Everything you wanted to know about Knowledge Graphs but were afraid to ask with Ora Lassila 55:43

3h ago55:43

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Knowledge Graphs are gaining more and more attention due to their role of structuring data and knowledge and providing accuracy for LLMs through GraphRAG. In this episode, we are joined by Ora Lassila, one of the “fathers” of RDF graphs and semantic web, which are the foundations for modern knowledge graphs, where we will dive into the questions yo…

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TAKEAWAYS - Everything you wanted to know about Knowledge Graphs but were afraid to ask with Ora Lassila 9:29

3h ago9:29

9:29

Knowledge Graphs are gaining more and more attention due to their role of structuring data and knowledge and providing accuracy for LLMs through GraphRAG. In this episode, we are joined by Ora Lassila, one of the “fathers” of RDF graphs and semantic web, which are the foundations for modern knowledge graphs, where we will dive into the questions yo…

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Leadership transformation in this Data and AI world with Sol Rashidi 1:02:24

1h ago1:02:24

1:02:24

CDO, CDAO, CAIO, CIO, CTO! Oh my, it's a cluster! Sol Rashidi joins Tim and Juan to help navigate this cluster, sharing honest no bs advice from her vast experience in the Data and AI world. If you are a leader, or a practioner aspiring to go to leadership, this is the must listen episode!By data.world

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TAKEAWAYS - Leadership transformation in this Data and AI world with Sol Rashidi 7:21

9d ago7:21

7:21

CDO, CDAO, CAIO, CIO, CTO! Oh my, it's a cluster! Sol Rashidi joins Tim and Juan to help navigate this cluster, sharing honest no bs advice from her vast experience in the Data and AI world. If you are a leader, or a practioner aspiring to go to leadership, this is the must listen episode!By data.world

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Demystifying Vector Databases with Bob van Luijt 52:42

10d ago52:42

52:42

When you think about Gen AI applications, one of the first things that comes to mind is Vector Databases as part of the stack. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Bob van Luijt, co-founder of Weaviate, to demystify Vector Databases.By data.world

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TAKEAWAYS - Demystifying Vector Databases with Bob van Luijt 5:35

21d ago5:35

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When you think about Gen AI applications, one of the first things that comes to mind is Vector Databases as part of the stack. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Bob van Luijt, co-founder of Weaviate, to demystify Vector Databases.By data.world

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Being Pro-Human in the AI Era 50:09

26d ago50:09

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Barry McCardel is the co-founder and CEO of Hex. Hex is an analytics tool that's structured around a notebook experience, but as you'll hear in the episode, goes well beyond the traditional notebook. We're big fans of Hex at dbt Labs, and use it for a bunch of our internal data work. In this episode, Barry and Tristan discuss notebooks and data ana…

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Crawl, Walk, and Run on How to be AI Ready with Peter Kromhout and Mariam Halfhide 53:39

18d ago53:39

53:39

Everyone wants to be doing AI and we know that data is at the center. So, how do we become AI Ready? Tim and Juan chat with Peter Kromhout and Mariam Halfhide from Xebia to discuss strategies and techniques to become AI Ready.By data.world

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TAKEAWAYS - Crawl, Walk, and Run on How to be AI Ready with Peter Kromhout and Mariam Halfhide 6:51

18d ago6:51

6:51

Everyone wants to be doing AI and we know that data is at the center. So, how do we become AI Ready? Tim and Juan chat with Peter Kromhout and Mariam Halfhide from Xebia to discuss strategies and techniques to become AI Ready.By data.world

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Who’s buying Data Catalogs and Why? with Neil Burge 1:00:33

25d ago1:00:33

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Neil Burge has been researching who’s been buying data catalogs and why. His LinkedIn posts are a gold mine for data practitioners, leaders and vendors. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Neil to go over his research, learnings and recommendations for the data industry.By data.world

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TAKEAWAYS - Who’s buying Data Catalogs and Why? with Neil Burge 8:09

25d ago8:09

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Neil Burge has been researching who’s been buying data catalogs and why. His LinkedIn posts are a gold mine for data practitioners, leaders and vendors. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Neil to go over his research, learnings and recommendations for the data industry.By data.world

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The 2024 Machine Learning, AI & Data Landscape (w/ Matt Turck) 36:22

29d ago36:22

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Matt Turck has been publishing his ecosystem map since 2012. It was first called the Big Data Landscape. Now it’s the Machine Learning, AI & Data (MAD) Landscape. The 2024 MAD Landscape includes 2,011(!) logos, which Matt attributes first a data infrastructure cycle and now an ML/AI cycle. As Matt writes, “Those two waves are intimately related. A …

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Data Security and AI: How to get them on the same page with Jesse Sedler 1:08:15

1M ago1:08:15

1:08:15

Data governance and security may be scary and hard, but with the right solutions in place, data teams can enable the right balance between security and usability to drive their businesses forward!By data.world

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TAKEAWAYS - Data Security and AI: How to get them on the same page with Jesse Sedler 8:43

1M ago8:43

8:43

Data governance and security may be scary and hard, but with the right solutions in place, data teams can enable the right balance between security and usability to drive their businesses forward!By data.world

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Live from Data Council Austin: what’s your honest no-bs take of the data world? 44:51

1M ago44:51

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Tim and Juan will be attending Data Council Austin and will be live interviewing anyone who wants to be interviewed! One question: what’s your honest no-bs take of the data world?By data.world

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How the Media Covers Gen AI (w/ Matthew Lynley, Supervised) 48:15

1M ago48:15

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Matthew Lynley is a bit of a hybrid. He's been a long-time journalist covering enterprise tech, currently in his fantastic AI and data newsletter Supervised, and he's also been a hands-on data practitioner. Matthew has covered the analytics tech stack, but this time Tristan turns the tables to get Matthew’s perspective on the rise of Gen AI as a to…

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What data will say when you're willing to listen with Scott Taylor 1:02:56

2M ago1:02:56

1:02:56

Shhh...do you hear that? It's the Data Whisperer. And he's here to tell a story: A data story. He'll disclose some hard-won truths. He'll philosophically approach the idea of truth before meaning. There may even be...data puppets.By data.world

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TAKEAWAYS - What data will say when you're willing to listen with Scott Taylor 12:24

2M ago12:24

12:24

Shhh...do you hear that? It's the Data Whisperer. And he's here to tell a story: A data story. He'll disclose some hard-won truths. He'll philosophically approach the idea of truth before meaning. There may even be...data puppets.By data.world

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Gartner Data and Analytics 2024 Takeaways: Metadata is Everywhere with Cris Hadjez from Norwegian Cruise Lines 52:43

2M ago52:43

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What are we hearing at talks and in the hallways at Gartner Data and Analytics 2024? AI is not only the cool kid, Metadata is everywhere. Join us to learn about the latest takeaways from the conference.By data.world

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When business goals and data strategies align with Amy Raygada 1:06:27

2M ago1:06:27

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Amy works at the cross-section of arguably the most important thing to a business: aligning data strategy with corporate vision. How do you ACTUALLY use data to achieve business goals, and how do you know if you're going in the right direction? Amy stops by to discuss.By data.world

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AI's Impact in the World of Structured Data Analytics (w/ Juan Sequeda, data.world) 48:18

2M ago48:18

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Juan Sequeda is a principal data scientist and head of the AI Lab at data.world, and is also the co-host of the fantastic data podcast Catalog and Cocktails. This episode tackles semantics, semantic web, Juan’s research in how raw text-to-SQL performs versus text-to-semantic layer, and where we both believe AI will make an impact in the world of st…

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Don't lift and shift: Data governance to AI Governance with Karen Meppen 1:05:05

3M ago1:05:05

1:05:05

You can’t lift and shift your traditional data governance practices to AI governance. AI's unique quirks bring unique governance requirements: understanding its limitations, ensuring fairness, protecting personal and intellectual property rights, and tailoring accuracy to specific use cases.By data.world

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The End of the Modern Data Stack (w/ Benn Stancil, Mode) 45:46

2M ago45:46

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Benn Stancil, cofounder and CTO at Mode, returns to The Analytics Engineering Podcast to discuss the evolution of the term "modern data stack" and its value today. Tristan wrote on this idea for The Analytics Engineering Roundup in Is the Modern Data Stack Still a Useful Idea? For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's…

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Another sucky year for startups and investment? with Eva Nahari 1:08:40

3M ago1:08:40

1:08:40

If you really want to win, you need to take some risks and be the first with something new. But how do you minimize risk? Eva Nahari, Principal at DNX ventures, talks to us about the current genAI investment environment.By data.world

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Bridging Innovation and Open Source to the Real World with Paco Nathan 1:02:52

3M ago1:02:52

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Paco Nathan has a career on bridging innovation and open source project on Data and AI to the real world. This episode will be his honest, no-bs take on the impact of open source in the real world. And of course, we will also talk about Knowledge Graphs and LLMs.By data.world

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Without information architecture, there is no AI with Jessica Talisman 1:07:40

4M ago1:07:40

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A world without AI? Unimaginable. And that's why - so is a world without information architecture, according to Jessica Talisman, information architect at Amazon. Information architecture extends beyond browse menus and UX/UI. We talk about why.By data.world

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Productivity is not performance with Santona Tuli 1:29:25

4M ago1:29:25

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Santona Tuli is the head of data at Upsolver. She's a voice we like to listen to about how data teams assemble: data roles, data culture, the function of data at a company...She stops by Catalog & Cocktails to talk workflows, architecture, and looking at data teams with a 10,000-foot view.By data.world

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The data mesh-terclass 1:01:49

4M ago1:01:49

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Samia Rahman is the Director of Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance at Seagen. She's a data mesh expert, and she's here to tell us why data mesh often gets mesh-understood. Also - we discuss knowledge graphs, prompt engineering, and whether AI and data governance should be separate.By data.world

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How will AI impact 2024 and beyond? 1:01:15

4M ago1:01:15

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Jeremiah Owyang is a general partner at Blitzscaling Ventures. His career arc has spanned web, sharing economy, and autonomous/AI technologies. He believes that AI is going to help humanity accomplish many of the big challenges we have for society, from health to learning to work and more. But the way we communicate and measure work will change - r…

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Season 6 Finale with Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda 59:11

5M ago59:11

59:11

2023 is coming to a close and so is our season 6 with 20 episodes. Join Tim and Juan where they will provide the takeaway of takeaways for all the episodes of season 6. We will be back in January 2024 and kick off Season 7.By data.world

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Data Mesh Architecture at Large Enterprises (w/ Moritz Heimpel and Ben Flusberg) 46:07

5M ago46:07

46:07

Moritz Heimpel from Siemens and Ben Flusberg from Cox Automotive have very similar jobs. They both act as stewards of the data strategies at large, complex companies. In this episode, we get into what it’s like to collaborate with data at scale. Ben and Mortitz share their experiences adopting a data mesh architecture and what that looks like at th…

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Data Contracts and Shift Responsibility to Left with Andrew Jones 1:03:50

6M ago1:03:50

1:03:50

Data contracts are all the rage and it’s about shifting responsibility to the left. What does that actually mean? How do you do that? Do we actually need more technology for it? Who needs to be involved? So many honest no-bs questions and who best to answer them than Andrew Jones, inventor of data contracts.…

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Making Data Science more Accessible with Doris Lee 44:01

6M ago44:01

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In this episode we will chat with Doris Lee on how data science started from an exclusive, hi-tech branch, how it's become more accessible over time, and what's still missing. We will also go over the data science market and the role of open source.By data.world

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Understanding the Role of Knowledge Graphs on Large Language Model’s Accuracy for Question Answering on Enterprise SQL Databases 48:47

6M ago48:47

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Investing in Knowledge Graph provides higher accuracy for LLM-powered question-answering systems. That's the conclusion of the latest research that Juan Sequeda, Dean Allemang and Bryon Jacob have recently presented. In this episode, we will dive into the details of this research and understand why to succeed in this AI world, enterprises must trea…

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Let's Talk About Data Vault (w/ Brandon Taylor and Michael Olschimke) 44:04

6M ago44:04

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If Data Vault is a new term for you, it’s a data modeling design pattern. We’re joined by Brandon Taylor, a senior data architect at Guild, and Michael Olschimke, who is the CEO of Scalefree—the consulting firm whose co-founder Dan Lindstedt is credited as the designer of the data vault architecture. In this conversation with Tristan and Julia, Mic…

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Navigating AI Complexity (w/ Jonathan Frankle) 46:20

7M ago46:20

46:20

Jonathan Frankle is the Chief Scientist at MosaicML, which was recently bought by Databricks for $1.3 billion. MosaicML helps customers train generative AI models on their data. Lots of companies are excited about gen AI, and the hope is that their company data and information will be what sets them apart from the competition. In this conversation …

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Data Storytelling with Kat Greenbrook 1:04:55

7M ago1:04:55

1:04:55

Data Storytelling is a topic that constantly comes up, but do we really know what it is? And what it isn’t? Who best to have this #honestnobs discussion than Kat Greenbrook, author of the upcoming book The Data Storyteller’s Handbook: How to create business impact using data storytelling.By data.world

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LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Knowledge Graph, Vector Databases with Mike Dillinger 1:06:21

7M ago1:06:21

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RAG, Retrieval Augemented Generation, is the term you now constantly hear in conjunction with LLM that provides context. But how does it actually work? And what's the relationship with Vector Databases and Knowledge Graphs? This will be a geeky AI episode with Mike Dillinger.By data.world

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Data Catalogs, The Power of Collaboration with Krystin Kim 1:02:43

7M ago1:02:43

1:02:43

Technical folks miss the boat and are boring when they talk about the features of data catalog such as glossaries and data lineage to business people. In this episode Krystin Kim will share how a data catalog should be presented to the business: the ultimate place to share ideas across big companies, a treasure trove of use cases for others to disc…

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Career Growth in Data Roles (w/ Hubspot's Kasey Mazza at Coalesce 2023) 29:17

7M ago29:17

29:17

In this conversation with Tristan recorded at Coalesce 2023, Kasey Mazza, an analytics engineering manager on the RevOps team at HubSpot, discusses the roles of data analysts and analytics engineers, the importance of building internal data communities, and the evolving landscape of data teams. Watch Kasey’s Coalescse 2023 presentation The career g…

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Data Stewardship, Data Product Management, Data Governance and AI with Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda 37:36

7M ago37:36

37:36

What's the state of data stewardship today and where is it going? Will data stewards continue to exist? How is this evolving with respect to data products? And what is the impact of AI? All of these questions and more is what Tim and Juan ranted about in this episode.By data.world

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Operationalizing Your Warehouse, Streaming Analytics, and Cereal (W/ Arjun Narayan of Materialize and Nathan Bean of General Mills) 42:23

7M ago42:23

42:23

It turns out data plays a big role in getting cereal manufactured and delivered so you can enjoy your Cheerios reliably for breakfast. We talk with Arjun Narayan, CEO of Materialize, a company building an operational warehouse, and Nathan Bean, a data leader at General Mills responsible for all of the company's manufacturing analytics and insights.…

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Generative AI, Data Products and Business Value with Jon Cooke 1:01:54

8M ago1:01:54

1:01:54

With the hype of Generative AI, how do we keep focused on the goal of delivering the right valuable and business facing analytics and data use-cases with as low friction and maximum agility as possible? Jon Cooke, founder of Dataception has a lot of honest no-bs thoughts to share!By data.world

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TAKEAWAYS - Generative AI, Data Products and Business Value with Jon Cooke 9:22

8M ago9:22

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Takeaways from With the hype of Generative AI, how do we keep focused on the goal of delivering the right valuable and business facing analytics and data use-cases with as low friction and maximum agility as possible? Jon Cooke, founder of Dataception has a lot of honest no-bs thoughts to share!By data.world

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From London to San Francisco: Summary of BigDataLDN and AI Conference 16:46

8M ago16:46

16:46

Tim and Juan provide an honest no-bs summary of what they observed and learned at Big Data London and the AI Conference in San Francisco. Tune in to get the latest on Data and AI and short interviews from Peter Norvig (Google), Nazneen Rajani (Hugging Face), Fabiana Clemente (YData), Danny Bickson (Visual Layer), Gev Sogomonian (AimStack), Yujian T…

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Roche’s Data Transformation Journey (w/ Yannick Misteli) 40:05

8M ago40:05

40:05

Yannick Misteli is the head of engineering for the go-to-market domain at Roche, a $250 billion multinational pharmaceutical and diagnostics company. Roche was an early supporter of dbt Cloud, and Yannick helped move his team of 120+ engineers to a modern data stack. He always finds a way to push the boundaries to make a large company founded in 18…

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Business Value on the #meandatastreets with Chris Tabb 59:55

8M ago59:55

59:55

Live from #meandatastreets of Big Data London, Tim and Juan will be chatting with Chris Tabb on how data teams need to be driving the message on providing the ability to increase the performance of the business across all domains with the use if data.By data.world

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Tim and Juan Rant from Amsterdam: where is the data budget? 11:31

8M ago11:31

11:31

Tim and Juan will share their latest thoughts about where the budget for data projects are heading.By data.world

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