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March 5, 2023

Tobias Zwingmann: AI for Effective BI

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...

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Feb. 26, 2023

Tom Redman: Be a data provocateur

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.disc...

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Feb. 19, 2023

Bill Inmon: The immense business value of textual data

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 com...

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Feb. 12, 2023

John Thompson: The art of building analytics teams

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...

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Feb. 5, 2023

Panos Alexopoulos: Minimum-viable semantic model

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...

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Jan. 25, 2023

Panel: Habits of Successful Data Engineers

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 …

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Jan. 17, 2023

Christopher Bergh: Build a little, test a little, learn a lot

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/podc...

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Dec. 23, 2022

LIVE: 7 data management lessons for 2023 with Winfried Adalbert Etzel

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 …

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Dec. 13, 2022

Lauren Balik: Why the modern data stack is broken and how to fix it

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 …

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Dec. 6, 2022

Helen Lippell: Harnessing the power of semantics

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 …

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Nov. 29, 2022

Stephen Shedletztky: Psychological safety and a Speak-Up culture

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 t...

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Nov. 16, 2022

Korbinian Spann: Text analytics to get in the head of your customers

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 Li...

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Nov. 9, 2022

Ron Itelman: Thinking in Networks

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 w...

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Oct. 26, 2022

Doug Laney: A framework to turn data into $$$ + Data Juice book givea…

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 …

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Oct. 6, 2022

Ashleigh Faith: What’s a data therapist and why you need one

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 d...

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Sept. 29, 2022

Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper: Data products in a knowledge-first world

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 J...

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Sept. 14, 2022

The ROI of data observability with Salma Bakouk

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...

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Sept. 7, 2022

Salma Bakouk: Avoiding Data Catastrophes

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 …

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Sept. 1, 2022

Jessica Talisman: PT. 2 -Taxonomies, ontologies, and a true data mesh

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 Taxono...

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Aug. 25, 2022

Jessica Talisman: PT. 1 - Taxonomies, ontologies, and a true data mesh

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 Taxono...

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Aug. 11, 2022

Bill Schmarzo: Speak the language of the business

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 …

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April 27, 2022

Lillian Pierson: Trailblazer 01 with Debbie Botha from WAI

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:/...

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April 14, 2022

A conversation with Brent Dykes

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 …

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March 30, 2022

Debbie Botha: Diversity and inclusion in data

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...

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