Season 1

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 .

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 Shedletzky—or “Shed” to his fri...

The data space is crying out for great leadership. But what is a leader? Anyone who is setting a path and providing direction for those around them to follow. A great data leader is a provocateur. They have the courage …

There is enormous and largely untapped business value in text. But managing and modelling this type of data is riddled with challenges. Today I learn all about textual data from the father of the data warehouse, Bill Inmon. B...

If you are a data engineer you probably feel that turning data into knowledge is super hard, no matter the architectural paradigm you use. Data sprawl is a nightmare. It erodes trust, and adoption, and it makes it really hard...

You can’t talk to your stakeholders if your pipelines are down. You can't get good quality sleep if your data products brake in the middle of the night. You can't earn the trust of your stakeholders if it takes you …

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...

How often do you get invited to business meetings? Do your stakeholders know why and how your work helps them? As data engineers, it's easy to be labelled as the “smart techies” that speak a language nobody else understands. ...

Data and analytics is a team effort that involves everyone across the entire organization. It's not just about finding someone smart who is knee-deep in the data and wants to step up. Not just the data engineers, database man...

The data space is evolving at a rapid pace. You might be making the mistake of focusing too much on the technical aspects and neglecting the critical role of business intelligence. To truly leverage the power of AI and make …

As an infrastructure engineer, you know how frustrating it can be when data infrastructure gets in the way of data science projects. Business leaders expect results at the speed of business, but slow or inadequate data infras...

In this episode, I sit down with Ravit Jain, community manager at Packt Publishing, to explore the power of authentic community building and content creation. Ravit shares his journey from market research to community managem...

Insights are worth nothing unless they are used. In this episode I speak with Gilbert Eijkelenboom—a true innovator in behavioral economics and the human side of data. Gilbert shares his journey from the technical trenches of...

Welcome to a cross-disciplinary journey to design and execute your data strategy.

Today we talk about the importance of business understanding to extract actionable insights, and common challenges in data analytics. We touch on the discrepancy between business needs and technical capabilities, the complexi...

Today, I’m speaking with Luiza Menezes. Luiza is a seasoned data analyst with a passion for analytics. Her journey started back in 2014 when she flew to Sydney to study robotics at the University of Sydney. Later, she spent t...

Today I speak with Rebecca Lodin. Rebecca has been working in advanced manufacturing for 13 years, from telecom to automotive, and medical. We talk about the impact of data in manufacturing and project management, the similar...

Today I speak with Nadja Jury about her 7-steps plan to navigate uncertainty when building new data products. The path is not an easy one, but nothing worth having comes easy.

Analytics engineering is about delivering high quality data transparently to everyone comfortable with SQL. This episode is about the big ideas behind the modern data stack. Today I speak with Jonathan Brooks about data trans...

Data management is a strategic imperative for any organisation but it doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Until not too long ago most of the data of an organisation used to be in one place, typically expensive and inflexib...

In this episode, I reflect on how a podcasting experiment, which started in a bathroom wrapped in a blanket (yes, really), transformed into a continuous journey of discovery around data, business, and community building. I’ll...

Let’s face it—data governance has a bad rap. It’s often seen as rigid, expensive, and bureaucratic. Some even advise not to say the "G word" when talking to business leaders. But what if I told you that data governance is …

What happens when a passionate PhD in Statistics steps into the real world of business? In this episode, Vlad Ardelean, Lead Data Scientist at GFK, reflects on his seven-year journey from academia to industry, revealing the h...

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...