Monday Morning Data Chat

Andreas Welsch  (Chief AI Strategist, Host of the Intelligence Briefing) joins the show to discuss the change management required to succeed with Generative AI in today's business world, prompt engineering, and more.

Data contracts are all the rage right now. Andrew Jones originated the term "data contracts", so who better to chat with? We discuss data contracts - how they originated, how they were implemented, what they are, and why you should care. #data #datacontracts #dataengineering,"

Data collaboration is hard. Andrew Padilla chats about how to effectively address data collaboration at a common level across your organization, then apply the relevant parts to your internal orgs. #data

Joe Perez ("Dr. Joe") joins the show to chat about the importance of actionable data to inform decision-making. We also discuss the various ways disparate data are brought together into a cohesive data warehouse, and how there should be a finite, measurable, deployable strategy

Colin Zima joins the show to chat about what data modeling should look like in 2023 and beyond. We'll chat about real ETL, semantic layers, the troubles with BI, and much more. #datamodeling #data #dataengineering #analytics

Saket Saurabh joins the show to chat about taking a data product-centric view to reinventing data management. #data #dataproducts #datamanagement #dataengineering

There's a lot of debate on big and small data. For systems and compute, some say "Big Data is Dead", while others challenge this notion. In AI and ML, big tech companies can pour tons of money and data into building massive LLMs, while open source provides compelling "small data" alternatives to the LLM walled gardens. So which is it? Will Big Data reign supreme or will sma...

Santona Tuli discusses the product management aspects as a data scientist - product and stakeholder management, due diligence of requirements gathering, and developing a strategy before implementing DS/ML pipelines. You know, the fun stuff ;)

Brian Olsen joins the show to chat about data virtualization. Does it put the heat on vendors that want to lock you in with proprietary storage? Will virtualization and federation enable data mesh, allowing you to move your data at will? Tune in and learn more! #datamesh #dataengineering #data

Tim Berglund is an OG of developer relations (aka devrel), having worked in devrel before it was cool. He joins the show to chat about the art of devrel and much more. #devrel #data

Dave Mariani (Founder/CTO at AtScale) joins the show to chat about the rise of the semantic layer in the modern data stack. Dave is a Silicon Valley veteran with a ton of experience building companies, amazing tech stacks, and everything in between. #semanticlayer #data #dataengineering #atscale

Artyom Keydunov & Pavel Tiunov (co-founders of Cube.dev) join the show to chat about all things semantic layers. Curious about the future of data apps? Then check out this episode. #data #semanticlayer #dataengineering #analytics

Malcolm Hawker joins the show to chat about data product management, generative AI and its impact on data products and the broader data industry, and much more. #datamesh #dataengineering #dataproducts #data

Joe Reis and Matt Housley rant about generative AI, Data Council, WASM, data modeling, regulations, and how programming languages and paradigms impact the business. #data #dataengineering #datamodeling #chatgpt

Larry Burns is a longtime data modeling expert and author on the topic. He joins the show to discuss some of the (often misunderstood) ways data modeling relates to data engineering, logical data modeling, and much more. If you're a data engineer, you can't afford to miss this discussion. #dataengineering #data #datamodeling

Jess Haberman  (Anaconda, formerly at O'Reilly Media) joins the show to chat about ways to upskill in a downturn, tech and data education, publishing a tech book, and much more. Jess is zero BS and always brings a practical perspective. We should know. She signed our book ;)

Cody Coleman and Will Gaviria Rojas (Co-founders of Coactive.ai) join the show to chat about the rising importance of unstructured data and the role of AI in unlocking the value of unstructured content. Their motto is "Content is King, and AI is the new Queen." Given the rise of unstructured data, this is a must for anyone working in AI. https://coactive.ai

Felix GV designs HUGE distributed systems as a principal staff engineer at LinkedIn. We talk about the Venice open-source project and the challenges of massively distributed data.  But Felix is also thinking about something WAY bigger - designing software for a multi-planetary civilization! This is a very interesting discussion that you won't usually come across on this planet, or others (yet...

Rogier Werschkull is keen on detecting BS in the data industry. This is a very opinionated and informative discussion about the state of affairs of hype and reality in the data industry today.

Matt Turck (Firstmark Capital) joins us to chat about what's new in the data landscape, the economic realities impacting the startup ecosystem, all things AI, and much more.   Matt is easily one of our favorite thinkers in the data and tech space, so this is definitely worth tuning in for. MAD Landscape 2023: https://mattturck.com/mad2023/

Neelesh Salian (Staff software engineer at dbt labs) joins the show to discuss building data infrastructure, general engineering topics at the staff+ level, and more.   #dataengineering #softwareengineering #data

Joe and Matt discuss getting Fundamentals of Data Engineering signed with O'Reilly, the writing process, and marketing a best-selling tech book. This is worth a listen if you've ever wanted to write a technical book.   #dataengineering #data #author #oreilly

Scott Taylor has become our regular for Valentine's Day week. Join us for a grab bag of thoughts and listener questions.   #data #masterdatamanagement

Venkat Venkataramani (CEO & co-founder at Rockset) joins the show to chat about real-time analytics at massive scale. In a former life, Venkat led Facebook's infrastructure team that handled billions of events per second for all of Facebook's user data services. Venkat is on OG in the real-time analytics space, so you'll learn a lot about this topic.   #dataengineering #data #realtimedata...

Are data catalogs amazing or are they limited in their use and potential? Join Shirshanka Das and Ananth Packkildurai for a live debate on the practicality of data catalogs.   Streamed live on LinkedIn Live and Youtube on 2/2/2023. #datacatalogs #dataengineering #data