Lights On Data Show

How to you ensure the value of your predictive analytics projects? How do you best estimate the ROI before the project stars? Let's find out. Keith McCormick is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker, and author of seven books. He has created over 20 LinkedIn Learning courses and frequent conference workshops, and has reached 1000s of individuals trying to learn statistics, machine learning,...

Our guest today is Ashish Patel, Chief Data Scientist at IBM. He'll share his story, how to get into the field and best practices to follow as a business data scientist. He'll also tell us why the agile methodology is not the best to use for ML/AI projects, what are the important things to follow to make your data science project successful and why failure is welcome.

Data lineage helps organizations understand the full story behind their data so they can make better business decisions. There are, however, MULTIPLE ways how to do data lineage. Let's understand these different approaches, the importance of each, best practices to follow, and the connection to business glossary, data quality, and overall data governance. Our guest for this episode is Torsten Prie...

Jordan Morrow, author of "Be Data Driven" will tell us how organizations can harness the power of data and become a data driven organization.

Learning and acquiring the skills required to be a data scientist can be hard and sometimes cost prohibitive. Some courses and some tools are definitely expensive. But you shouldn't let this deter you from achieving your goal of becoming a data scientist or improving your existing skill set. There are some great FREE resources out there for data science.  T. Scott Clendaniel, Lead Artificial...

Change management 101 for data projects. In today’s episode we’ll have a fireside chat on: What change management is and why it’s important; The 4 main principles to follow; Different change management frameworks; Best practices to abide by. With Change Management Professional and Expert, Diana Firican.

Discussing about those best practices on creating data communities and growing a data culture. Our guest today is Christopher Wagner, Principal Data Insights & Analytics Solution Architect @ KratosBI and creator of the Data Gods. 

Tiankai Feng is a Data Governance Professional, Musician & LinkedIn Creator. He's combining his artistic talents with his passion for data. In this episode he will tell us how data governance can be made more fun and approachable, share tips and tips on how to make it meaningful to its stakeholders, and tell us about his journey from digital analytics into data governance.

Joe Reis, CEO of Ternary Data and Matthew Housley, CTO of Ternary Data are joining us on this insightful episode to talk about the Fundamentals of Data Engineering.

Lee Feinberg is the Chief Data Officer and the creator of the concept, "Intent Before Content". He'll give us some tips on how to create a data visualization that sticks with the audience and the message it is trying to convey. Quick tips: its starts with the intent, knowing the audience, drawing the sketch, asking the question, and only at the end employing those data visualization best practices...

Should data governance be called "data governance" or is there a better name for it to ensure its adoption and support? What about the "data steward" role? How should we use communication and change management to help the organization better embrace it? What are those best practices to best improve data quality? How do we stop a data lake from turning into a data swamp? We address all these questi...

What is the difference between marketing analytics and product analytics? How do the overlap and what should we know to harness their benefits? If you'd like to step into this field, then listen to this episode with our guest, Jean-Sebastien Provost, Ph. D. He is a data scientist with over 12 years of experience performing data analysis to uncover hidden trends in data that tell stories about beha...

What's the secret recipe to drive company-wide metrics alignment? Arnaud de Turckheim is the CPO & Co-Founder at Castor and will reveal this to us on this Lights On Data Show episode.

The data transformation is a long journey for most companies. So how should we best engage teams and individuals in the data transformation journey, help them grow the data literacy, culture, etc.? Let's address this important topic with Nicolas Averseng, Founder and CEO of YOOI.

Marius Moscovici, CEO and Founder of Metric Insights, will define what BI Governance is and discuss the key BI governance challenges while providing a practical approach to tackling those challenges with a BI Portal. An effective BI governance strategy ensures that you are getting maximum engagement with BI across your enterprise.

Data analyst, data scientist, data engineer, project manager, data steward, etc. We always encounter some or all of these roles in data projects and programs. But there are also some critical roles which more than often are overlooked. Because of that, most data science projects fail. To tell us all about it, let's welcome Tom Redman, "the Data Doc", and the President of Data Quality Solutions.&nb...

Data catalogs are here to stay and a great asset to data-driven organizations. But how do you best implement a data catalog? To tell us all about it, walk us through the pitfalls to avoid and the best practices to follow, is Rupal Sumaria, the Head of Data Governance at Penguin Random House UK who successfully implemented a data catalog recently.

Kent Graziano, ‘The Data Warrior,’ is an award-winning industry thought leader, author and speaker. A semi-retired Snowflake data cloud and data vault evangelist, an advisor at Lyftrondata, and an overall legend within the world of data.  We'll learn more about the mysterious data warrior, his recent move to join Lyftrondata, data warehouses and the rise of the cloud, Snowflake vs. Redshift,...

Why do so many data governance programs fail? What are those common pitfalls that we can avoid and what are those approaches that work better? Shinji Kim is the Founder and CEO of Select Star and is joining us on this Lights On Data Show episode to share her thoughts and best practices on this topic.

This episode's guest is Brent Dykes, Chief Data Storyteller at AnalyticsHero. He'll walk us through the steps to create a good data story, insight vs. observation, the importance of the narrative, colors and emotions, and how to avoid those common mistakes and pitfalls when creating an effective data story. "The ability to effectively communicate and telling a story with data is no longer a luxury...

John Thompson is a 2 x Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, and Innovator in AI, Data & Advanced Analytics. As a senior technology executive leading Data Science & Product teams is the best one out there to reveal to us what the future of data holds.

Companies have a hard time to create a data strategy and especially one that you can drive value from. Why is this challenging and what can we do about it? How do you drive value from your data strategy? What are some potential ROIs that you can call out and measure? Our guest for this episode is Nicolas Averseng, Founder and CEO of YOOI.

In this episode we'll go over a real-case study and go over how a fintech company matured their data governance program, what their drivers were, how support was gained to invest in the data catalog tool, OvalEdge, how they onboarded it, and the company's outcomes of the enhanced data discovery and data literacy. We'll be joined by Sharad Varshney, CEO of OvalEdge, and Lucia Arando, Data Managemen...

Christina Stathopoulos, Analytical Lead at Waze (Google), shares tips and advice from her experience on how to build a data science career when the odds seem to be against you. We'll talk about what skills to invest in, how to build a portfolio, find a mentor, and women in tech. We'll even talk about why reading is beneficial for your health and how you can read more as well as learn a new languag...

What is your top time sink in your data team? For most it's the time it takes to provide data access, migrate data to the cloud, and govern it all. So what can be done about these time sinks? How can these be mitigated? Join us on the Lights On Data Show with James Beecham, CTO & Co-founder at ALTR as we'll address this topic.