Slow or inadequate data infrastructure can seriously hinder the progress of data science projects, making it a constant battle to balance the need for speed with accuracy and quality. Today I learn the challenges data science teams face and how to overcome the obstacles of data infrastructure from Ville Tuulos, author of "Effective Data Science Inf…

AI is emerging as a powerful tool for data scientists and businesses. But how can we leverage this technology to its fullest potential? Join me as I learn from Tobias Zwingmann, author of AI-Powered Business Intelligence. You can follow Tobias on LinkedIn. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-058 Book Giveaway Do you want to…

A great data leader is a provocateur. They "provoke" the organization with their ideas and demonstrating success. Join me as I learn from Tom Redman the Data Doc. You can follow Tom on LinkedIn. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-057 Membership Waiting List https://airtable.com/shrGDK9R143gXZD0X For Guests Do you enjoy edu…

Learn how to extract business value from text from the father of the data warehouse: Bill Inmon. You can follow Bill on LinkedIn. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-056 Join the Discovering Data community! Do you want to turn data into business outcomes and get promoted? Discovering Data just launched a new Discord server …

Analytics requires a real involved effort across the entire organization. So what does it take to build team that not only understands your organization's data but the analytic and business requirements as well? Today I learn from John Thompson, best selling author, analytics innovator, and data thought leader. Episode page https://www.discoveringd…

What is semantic modeling? How and when do you need it? Can you automate it? Today I speak with Panos Alexopoulos author of the book "Semantic Modeling for Data - Avoiding Pitfalls and Breaking Dilemmas" published by O'Reilly. You can follow Panos on LinkedIn. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-054 Join the Discovering Dat…

When was the last time a data engineer got invited into a strategy meeting and asked, "Hey, I value your opinion. Can you come and sit with the CEO?" Today, we map the habits you need to develop for maximum business impact and promotion. You can follow the panelists on their LinkedIn: Tobias Zwingmann Vishal Ramrakhyani Swati Vishwanathan Episode p…

Can a system help us build better products? Today I learn everything about DataOps from Christopher Bergh, CEO and Head Chef at DataKitchen. You can follow Chris on LinkedIn. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-053 Events coming up - Data Teams Summit The Data Teams Summit is coming up on January 25. It's an online live eve…

Today we look back to look forward: 🗓️ 1 Year 🎙️ 2 Podcasts 👨‍💻 50 Data Leaders 💡7 Lessons What are the biggest lessons in data management for next year? This is our first Live-Show ever, a collaboration between Discovering Data and Data Management Association Norway (DAMA) a LIVE podcast co-hosted by myself and Winfried Adalbert Etzel. This is wha…

The Modern Data Stack is getting too complex and costly to maintain. What are some of the worse anti-patterns in the MDS? What are the drivers and incentives that prevent us from scaling? Join me as I follow the white rabbit with Lauren Balik. You can follow Lauren on LinkedIn. Episode page http://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-052 Join th…

Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification, and it’s what we need if we want to be able to search for data. What can go wrong and how do you do it well? Join me as I learn from Helen Lippell. You can follow Helen on LinkedIn. 'Taxonomies' Book Giveaway & Special Offer We are giving away 10 copies of Helen's new book: "…

Psychological safety fuels learning and growth. It feels good and it’s good for business too! After a decade working in Simon Sinek’s team and hundreds of keynote presentations my guest Stephen Shedletztky joins me today to talk about creating a Speak Up culture. You can follow Stephen on LinkedIn. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podca…

How do you leverage unstructured data to create better and more sustainable products, increase margins, and grow the business? Today I learn from Korbinian Spann, CEO, and founder of Insaas.ai. You can follow Korbinian on LinkedIn. Episode page Link For Brands Do you want to showcase your thought leadership with great content and build trust with a…

How can we maximize innovation in the enterprise? Today I learn from Ron Itelman in a voyage from data contracts to metacognition, neuroscience, and more. You can follow Ron on LinkedIn. Episode page Link For Brands Do you want to showcase your thought leadership with great content and build trust with a global audience of data leaders? We publish …

How do you come up with new ideas to monetize data assets? My guest is the one and only Doug Laney who just published a new book called Data Juice: 101 stories of how organizations are squeezing value from available data assets. Signup to win a free copy at discoveringdata.com/juice. You can follow Doug Laney on LinkedIn. Episode page https://www.d…

Business users must be able to communicate their data needs quickly without writing code. This is the idea of the semantic warehouse. But how do you build one? Join me as I learn from Chad Sanderson, Head of Data at Convoy. You can follow Chad on LinkedIn. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-046 Data Products Substack If yo…

Data therapists are translators that sit between business and technical data leaders. They are great facilitators, they understand tech but they also speak business. What happens in a data therapy session? Who runs it? When do you know you need one? Today I learn from a real expert on this topic, Ashley Faith. Ashley is a professional data scientis…

The average CDO has 2 years to turn data into business value. Today we talk about data products, implicit and explicit knowledge, and the cultural revolution we need to turn data into knowledge at scale. My guests today are Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper from data.world co-hosts of the Catalog & Cocktails podcast. Episode page https://www.discoveringd…

What’s the business impact of data observability? Today we continue the conversation with Salma Bakouk, CEO and co-founder of Sifflet. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-043 For Brands Do you want to showcase your thought leadership with great content and build trust with a global audience of data leaders? We publish conve…

If data means money, we want to detect data issues before they turn into costly mistakes. We need to go from firefighting to fire prevention and be able to resolve issues quickly when they occur. Today we dive into data observability with Salma Bakouk, CEO and co-founder of Sifflet. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-042 F…

This is part two of turning data into knowledge at scale, and about the arduous job of cleaning, defining, collapsing and expanding information and knowledge in the enterprise. My guest today is Jessica Talisman senior Taxonomist at Pluralsight. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/taxonomies-ontologies-and-a-true-data-mesh-2 For Br…

Today we talk about turning data into knowledge at scale, and about the arduous job of cleaning, defining, collapsing and expanding information and knowledge in the enterprise. My guest today is Jessica Talisman senior Taxonomist at Pluralsight. Episode links and resources https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/taxonomies-ontologies-and-a-true-dat…

If data and analytics are going to be taken seriously by business executives, we need to talk about value in their language. Today I speak with the Dean of Big Data Bill Schmarzo about the skills, mindsets and mental models we need as data practitioners to find a revenue connection in everything we do. Follow Bill Schmarzo on LinkedIn. Full episode…

The promise of a data catalog is to help everyone search and find every document and datapoint in the organization. Easier said than done. This episode is for everyone that wants to map all their organization’s critical data assets, understand how they relate to one another, and enable teams to find them quickly. Review the show: https://www.discov…

Trailblazer is a series of short interviews designed to inspire you to lead the data conversation. This is a partnership between Discovering Data and Women in AI. Today we learn from Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum. Follow Kay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedi…

In stressful conflicts, our instinct is to react and push back. “Going with” and not “against” a threat is the essence of the Japanese martial art known as Aikido. Can Aikido help us become more effective leaders? Join me as I learn from Aikido black-belt, Andrew Sunter. Follow Andrew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-sunter-85619110/…

Mapping and engineering the information flow is the job of enterprise information architects or EIAs. But what is exactly information architecture? What does a day in the shoes of an information architect look like? What can we do to help them do their job better? Join me as a learn from Dora Boussias, Senior Director, Data Strategy & Architecture …

If you are rolling your eyes when you hear “knowledge management”, it’s because we have been doing it wrong. If we want to win in complex, uncertain, and volatile environments we need both sides of our brain, the artistic and the analytical side. Today I learn about radical knowledge management from its creator Stephanie Barnes. Follow Stephanie on…

In digital marketing we get so fixated with conversion rates and exponential growth curves that we often don’t have time to worry about data privacy and data ethics. What are the long term business impacts of unethical use of personal data? Join me as I learn about the future of digital marketing from my guest Stéphane Hamel. Follow Stéphane on Lin…

Trailblazer is a series of short interviews designed to inspire more women to lead the data conversation. Today we learn from Lillian Pierson, CEO and Head of Product at Data-Mania. You can follow Lillian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lillianpierson/ — Useful links: Lillian’s newsletter: https://www.data-mania.com/newsletter Women in AI:…

When was the last time you had an important fact to share but nobody seemed to care? This is for you if you want to learn how to communicate insights effectively and make things happen. My guest today is Brent Dykes, a master data storyteller. You can follow Brent on LinkedIn or checkout his book here. -- We have a new home at discoveringdata.com w…

Bias kills creativity and can lead us to the wrong solutions. One way to detect and correct for bias effectively is with a culture of diversity and inclusion. How does this help us build safe and innovative solutions? Join me as I learn from Debbie Botha, Chief Partnership Officer at Women in AI. You can follow Debbie on LinkedIn. Read/listen: disc…

Every data leader wants to be a strategic partner to the business. What does it take to do this effectively? Today we dive into design thinking with my guest Brian T. O’Neill founder and principal at designingforanalytics.com, and host of the Experiencing Data podcast. You can follow Brian on LinkedIn and Twitter. 📣 Twice a year Brian runs a LIVE i…

Today we learn about the role that trusted data played to scale an eCommerce business to $1B and beyond with James Edwards, CDO and founder of Pet Circle. We talk about the business impact of fragmented data and strategies to bring everyone on the same page. You can follow James on LinkedIn. Read/listen: discoveringdata.com 📣 1 WEEK LEFT: Data line…

As tools get better in the modern data stack, business impact is increasingly dependent on effective communication, collaboration and governance. What does it take to do this well? Join me with Matt David, Product Marketing Manager (Data) at Atlassian and co-author of the book “The Informed Company”. Read/listen: discoveringdata.com Community Coffe…

Discovering data only makes sense if it stimulates a conversation, and it's hard to have a conversation when you broadcasting. So how do we make that transition from something that happens in a virtual room to something that it's more interactive? What does Discovering Data mean to you? Read/listen: discoveringdata.com Find your tribe, unwind, and …

Lineage is a critical capability, it's complex and expensive so it's really important to know what can go wrong and how to avoid pitfalls to deliver maximum value to the business. Today I am joined by Irina Steenbeek an absolute expert on this topic. Irina has a lot of experience managing ERP implementations, she is the founder of Data Crossroads a…

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New year, fresh energy and new name: The Data Project becomes Discovering Data! In this episode I talk about what this project is becoming and how it will help you become a more impactful data leader. Learn more at https://www.discoveringdata.comBy Loris Marini

The latest research shows that 90% of the value of the SP500 is attributed to intangible assets, of which data is a big chunk. But is data and information truly intangible? It turns out that information is every bit as physical as anything we can touch and see. Learn more at https://www.discoveringdata.com…

Managing data assets is not just about technology but the right platform can make our life a lot easier. The folks at Ataccama have been leading the space for years. What are they doing differently? Join me as I learn all about it from Marek Ovčáček, VP of Platform Strategy at Ataccama. Learn more at https://www.discoveringdata.com…

Data is an intangible asset with unique economic properties. What are some of the strategies we can use to monetise it? Follow me as I unpack this with Doug Laney, author of "Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage". Learn more at https://www.discoveringdata.com…

How can we use data to improve people's life and manage better the information and relationships that make up our businesses? Follow me as I speak to FX Nicolas, VP of Product at Semarchy. I would like to thank Semarchy for making this episode possible. Learn more at https://www.discoveringdata.comBy Loris Marini

Being more effective for me starts with learning how I behave, and for that I need just the right amount of information. How does this scale when you are looking at a team? Follow me as I explore this with Chris Boys co-founder of Umano, a team analytics company that takes team effectiveness to a whole new level. Learn more at https://www.discoveri…

"I've never seen an organization that understands the cost, value, and benefit of their information assets." Follow me as I speak with James Price, a black belt in information asset management and a true multi-domain expert. Learn more at https://www.discoveringdata.comBy Loris Marini

Information flow is at the heart of any resilient organisation. But we are unlikely to see outcomes unless data is properly managed and people feel empowered to use it. To understand more about the second challenge today I speak with Ben Jones, co-founder and CEO of Data Literacy.com. Learn more at https://www.discoveringdata.com…

Datasets are a limited representation of what we do in the world. The extent to which they are useful depends on our ability to structure data, use it to refine our intuition, and maintain a growth mindset until best practices become second nature. My guest today is Andrew Andrews, Vice President of DAMA Australia. Learn more at https://www.discove…

Great data scientists blend prediction models with reliable data and domain knowledge, but without a data management program, the last two are left to chance. What do the best data science teams do differently? Follow me as I find out with Vlad Ardelean, lead data scientist at Growth from Knowledge (GFK). Full Transcripts: https://www.discoveringda…

Data Governance is the cornerstone of every successful data management program, but it is often associated with suffocating rigidity, great cost, and unclear ROI. How can we get it right? Today I speak with George Firican to find out! George is the Director of Data Governance & Business Intelligence at The University of British Columbia, the creato…

What can data teams learn from community managers? When my friend and community manager Ravit Jain reached out I was thrilled to discover how his mindset at work could be useful to data teams. Learn more at https://www.discoveringdata.comBy Loris Marini