Monday Morning Data Chat

It seems like LLMs are taking the analytics world by storm. But how do you use them to support the analytics workflow? Yali Sassoon (CTO, Co-founder of Snowplow) joins us to chat about this and much more. We'll also likely dive into behavioral analytics and more. Snowplow: https://snowplow.io/

David Yaffe (Estuary) and John Kutay (Striim) join the show to chat about the state of streaming and change data capture (CDC) in 2024 and beyond. There is a lot to cover and learn in this show. Estuary: https://estuary.dev/ Striim: https://www.striim.com/

Data products are all the rage. But what are they? And what the heck does "customer-facing" mean? Will your old-school BI tool handle customer-facing needs? Solomon Kahn joins us to chat about customer-facing data products and much more. He's one of the people we consider to be at the bleeding edge of modern analytics and data products, so definitely check this out. Delivery Layer: https://www.deliverylayer.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/solomonkahn/

Katharine Jarmul is a AI/ML privacy and security expert, and the author of Practical Data Privacy. She joins us to chat about whether we are solving the "right" problems with AI/ML/data science, exploring what "safe", "responsible", and "ethical" AI means, and much more.

Cedric Chin (CommonCog) and Sam Taylor join us to chat about communicating sophisticated stuff to stakeholders, statistical process control, XmR charts, and a ton more. CommonCog: https://commoncog.com/ XMRIT: https://xmrit.com/

Martin Musiol (Founder and CEO of generativeAI.net and GenAI Lead for Europe at Infosys) joins us to chat about all things generative AI, and his new book, "Generative AI: Navigating the Course to the Artificial General Intelligence Future."

Veteran data industry analyst Tony Baer joins us to chat about his outlook for generative AI in 2024 and beyond. Tony goes way deeper than most people in his analysis, and if you're interested where things are going with generative AI, you better tune into this.

Ethan Aaron (CEO of Portable) joins us to chat about whether data is a job or a skill, what's stopping companies from running their analytics out of a Google Sheet, and much more.

Jean-Georges Perrin joins the show to chat about data mesh, data contracts, modern data engineering standards, Bitol (is open standard project with the Linux Foundation), data architecture, and much more. This is a wide-reaching discussion. Enjoy!

Joe Reis and Matt Housley are back for another listener Q&A. They chat about the demise of the Modern Data Stack, architecture, data modeling, AI, and much more.

Our favorite Valentine's Week guest and all around love doctor, Scot Taylor, joins the show to chat about explaining "value" to the business, puppets, and much more.

Michel Tricot (CEO of Airbyte) joins the show to chat about the impact of AI on traditional data practices (e.g. ETL/ELT), building a company, and much more.

Benn Stancil joins the show to chat about 2024 predictions, how GenAI impacts product development, writing, and more. Please note - there were some Internet problems with Benn's audio once in a while in the talk.

Dave Langer returns to the show to chat about Python in Excel, data science in SMBs without "data scientists", and much more

It's Joe and Matt today, taking listener questions and ranting about whatever's on their minds.

Alex Gallego (founder and CEO of Redpanda) joins the show to chat about the streaming data renaissance, why open formats for tiered storage is the future of data, and much more.

Mike Ferguson (Managing Director, Intelligent Business Strategies, Chairman of Big Data London) joins the show to chat about the top key trends he's seeing in in data management and analytics - GenAI, architecture modernization, FinOps, and much more.

Tristan Handy (CEO of dbt Labs) joins the show to chat about the data tooling landscape, business moats, semantic layers, the data engineering ecosystem, and much more. We covered a ton of ground in an hour and probably could've kept going for another hour. Enjoy!

Tristan Handy (CEO of dbt Labs) joins the show to chat about the data tooling landscape, business moats, semantic layers, the data engineering ecosystem, and much more. We covered a ton of ground in an hour and probably could've kept going for another hour. Enjoy!

Sol Rashidi is a heavy hitter in the enterprise data space, having been CXO at Estee Lauder, Sony, Merck, and more. She joins us to chat about getting business value from data, the CXO playbook, AWS ReInvent, and more.