The official podcast of tech/data nerd and "recovering data scientist" Joe Reis. He provides refreshingly candid thoughts on the world of technology and data. Each week, he broadcasts from somewhere in the world, sometimes ranting solo or with the smartest people in the business.
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5 Minute Friday - Is Data Modeling a Waste of Time?
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Is data modeling a waste of time? I meet a number of people who say it is. In this episode, I dissect some of the arguments against data modeling, and give reasons why it matters more than ever today.
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Safiyy Momen - The Good and Bad of the Modern Data Stack, Controlling Cloud Costs, and More
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Safiyy Momen and I chat about the good and bad of the Modern Data Stack, controlling cloud costs, boring engineering, and much more. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/safiyy-momen/
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Gordon Wong - Why Most Data Teams Aren't That Valuable
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Gordon Wong and I chat about why most data teams aren't that valuable, and ways data teams can deliver more value.
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5 Minute Friday - It's Fast Enough, or Why Programming Language Wars are Dumb
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Just got off the plane from Spain, and I'm quite jet lagged. Nonetheless, here's your Friday rant. In this episode, I chat about an experience I had with someone telling me Python is a slow language. If you can't tell, I think programming language wars are dumb, and I give some reasons why.
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Roman Yampolskiy - AI Safety & The Dangers of General Super Intelligence
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Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher who's deeply concerned with the dangers of General Super Intelligence. We chat about why he doesn't think humanity has much time left, and what we can do about it. Twitter: https://twitter.com/romanyam?lang=en
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5 Minute Friday - My Book Writing Process
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I'm sitting in the Amsterdam Airport (Schipol) and wrote some of my book on the flight over to Europe. In this episode, I'll talk briefly about my book writing process, and how it differs today from when I wrote Fundamentals of Data Engineering.
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The Changelog (Jarod Santo and Adam Stacoviak) - Reverse Podcast
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Jarod Santo and Adam Stacoviak from The Changelog join me for 1.5 hours of free-flowing chats about planned obscelescene, old school vs new school consumer tech, the XZ Backdoor incident, the job market doldrums (plus tips for finding work and starting a biz), and being unemployable. Jarod and Adam are two of my favorite people to talk with, since …
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In today's Practical Data Modeling group discussion, we chatted about how to get buy-in for data modeling. The question was intentionally vague, because context is key. I give some thoughts on this topic, and how you can generalize this to most situations where you need to get buy-in. Practical Data Modeling: https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.…
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Vishnu Vasanth - Next Generation Analytical Query Engines
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Vishnu Vasanth (e6Data) and I chat about what's next for analytical query engines, shifting left, the Indian tech scene, and much more. Vishnu is very wise and has a very deep technical vision for where the industry needs to go. I very much agree with his vision. Enjoy! e6Data: https://www.e6data.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishnu-va…
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Kent Graziano - The Data(Ops) Warrior
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There's the interview you think you're going to have, then there's the interview you get. This is one of those, in the best way possible. I expected to chat about his time at Snowflake. We didn't even get past his early days building data warehouses because it was so fascinating. Did you know Kent is arguably one of the very first practitioners (pr…
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Sometimes I feel like the data world is stuck in a world of tabular data (rows and columns). This has been the data world for decades. Let's think bigger. We've moved beyond data fitting into lakes. With the capability of AI to unlock the power of unstructured data (audio, images, video), it's time to start thinking about data oceans...…
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Keith Belanger - The Art of Data Modeling
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Keith Belanger is an OG data modeling practitioner, having been in the game for decades. We chat about a wide range of data modeling topics. What's changed and what's stayed the same? How to model data to fit the business's needs. Agile data modeling. When it works, when it doesn't. Data modeling for data mesh and decentralization. The art of data …
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5 Minute Friday - Your Mileage WILL Vary With Analytical Data Modeling
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This morning, the Practical Data Modeling Community held its first group discussion (to be posted very soon). People from all sorts of organizations (biggest companies in the world, universities, small companies) discussed how the approach analytical data modeling. My major takeaway - your mileage will vary. There's the ideal way of data modeling w…
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Kishore Aradhya - Teaching Tech and Data in a FAST Moving World
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Kishore Aradhya and I both teach, and we agree this is a very difficult landscape to determine what and how to teach. Against the backdrop of generative AI, we discuss the role of universities in teaching tech and data, the role of a teacher, how to teach data, and much more. DSPY - https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy…
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Toby Mao - SQLMesh, Simplifying Data Transformations, and more
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Toby Mao started his data tooling company, SQLMesh, in 2022, when investing in data tools was unfashionable. Yet, he's managed to get traction with SQLMesh and is on a mission to simplify data transformations and make data easier to work with. We also chat about experimentation best practices, which he learned at some of the biggest tech companies …
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Matt Housley - Fads in Data, Data and ML Engineering, Tech Hubs, and more
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Matt Housley hangs out at my house, and we have a random chat about all sorts of stuff - fads in data, data and ML engineering, tech hubs, and more. If you want a glimpse into the sorts of chats that Matt and I have all the time, here you go.
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5 Minute Friday - The Inverse Relationship of Talking About Value vs Adding Value
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There's an inverse relationship between the value you add and how much you need to tell people about it. If you're adding value, you'll know - you don't need to talk about it. You're doing it. Also, the same goes with "data." If you're putting "data" as the center of the conversation, you just lost the game.…
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Angel Narciso - Live From LEAP Riyadh, Saudi Arabia!
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Angel Narciso and I hung out at LEAP Riyadh, alongside 215K attendees (wtf?). We chat about all sorts of stuff in the data world, including some blunt convos on the modern data stack and AI, among other things.
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5 Minute Friday - How I Write and Why You Should Write
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I often get questions about how I write and advice on how one might go about becoming a "writer." In this episode, I talk a bit about my writing process and why you (yes you) should also write. This will be the first in a few episodes and blog posts where I talk about the writing and content creation process, as I get a ton of questions about this.…
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Jess Haberman - How to Negotiate a Book Deal, How AI Changes Publishing, and More
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Jess Haberman and I chat about how to negotiate a book deal. She's been in publishing for ages and knows her stuff! Also, I wish I had this episode handy while I was shopping around Fundamentals of Data Engineering, because Jess agreed to publish my book while she was at O'Reilly ;) We also talk about how AI will change publishing.…
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Had a great chat with Keith Belanger yesterday (podcast dropping soon) about how conceptual data modeling fell by the wayside. All too often, people seem focused on physical data modeling. This is a shame, because conceptual is the art and lifeblood of data modeling. As an industry, we need to learn to see (again).…
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Sadie St. Lawrence - Mind and Machines, Building Communities, Optimizing Time, Focus, and Social Capital
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Sadie St. Lawrence chat about all sorts of stuff - mind and machines, community building, optimizing time, focus, and social capital, and much more. Women in Data: https://www.womenindata.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadiestlawrence/
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5 Minute Friday - “Good Enough” Data Models
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Is it better to make a perfect or good enough data model? It depends…
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Christian Bourdeau - The Data Hiring Landscape, and What to Learn for a Data Career
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Christian Bourdeau and I chat about all things data careers - getting hired, getting fired, and finding your gig. We also chat about 75 Hard, lifting weights (we're bros), hackathons, teaching, and much more. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianbourdeau/
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Zach Zeus - Trust Architecture, ESG, and More
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Zach Zeus and I chat about trust architecture and how it can work to improve ESG impacts in supply chain. This is an incredibly important topic with massive global impact, cuz climate change. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-zeus/ Recommendation 49: https://unece.org/circular-economy/news/unece-support-scaling-transparency-sustainable-…
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I'm chilling in Verbier, Switzerland at Skiers in Data (SKID). In this episode, I chat about the various types of debt - technical, data, and organizational debt.
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Annie Nelson - How to Become a Data Analyst
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Annie Nelson and I chat about her path to data analytics, writing her new book, "How to Become a Data Analyst", bad career advice, rock climbing, and more. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-nelson-analyst/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/annie-nelson-data-analytics Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Become-Data-Analyst-Low-Cost/dp/1…
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Christophe Blefari - Why Teaching Data Engineering is Hard
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Christophe Blefari and I chat about why teaching data engineering is so damn hard, how generative AI will change technology and data education, and more. Site: https://www.blef.fr/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopheblefari
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5 Minute Friday - Gordon Wong and I are Dropped Into a Failed Data Project...
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Imagine you're dropped into the middle of a failed data project - no data team, no documentation, and other horrific things - and have to figure out a way to make it work. What would you do? Gordon Wong and I chat about various aspects of how we'd handle this scenario.
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Alex Freberg, aka Alex The Analyst - Playing the Long Game with Content
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Alex Freberg, aka Alex The Analyst, chats with me about playing the long game with content, empathizing with his audience, how he grew a massive YouTube following, his new Analyst Builder courses, and much more. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AlexTheAnalyst LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-freberg/ Analyst Builder: https://www.analystb…
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Wendy Turner-Williams - The Association.ai, Unleashing Generative AI, and more
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Wendy Turner-Williams joins me to chat about her new project and communty, The Association.ai, unleashing generative AI in organizations, starting and building a community, and much more. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-turner-williams-8b66039/ The Association: https://theassociation.ai/
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5 Minute Friday - Everything Ends...Moving on From the Modern Data Stack
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My voice is sort of working, and I chat about Tristan Handy's article that raised quite a ruckus this week, "Is the "Modern Data Stack" Still a Useful Idea?" In the end, the Modern Data Stack won - people use the cloud for analytics. And everything ends, so I'm excited for what's next. Article: https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/is-the-modern-data-stack-…
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Randy Bean - Why Generative AI is Making Companies More Data-Oriented
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Randy Bean and I discuss why generative AI is making companies more data-oriented, the latest Wave Stone Data and AI Leadership Executive Survey, his career and writing process and much more.
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Steve Hoberman - Data Modeling's Past, Present, and Future.
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I consider Steve Hoberman to be one of the original data modelers, having practiced and taught data modeling since the 1990s. He also runs the venerable Technics Publications, which I consider the foremost publishers of data-oriented books. Steve and I discuss data modeling's past, present, and future. If you're into data modeling, this is a must-l…
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Andrew Meister - Removing "Clunk" and Waste From Workflows
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Andrew Meister and I chat about removing wasted notions and bad workflows, aka "clunk."
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5 Minute Friday - Data Day Texas, Practical Data Modeling Updates, and More
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Today's rant is a random grab bag of stuff - my thoughts on Data Day Texas, updates to Practical Data Modeling, and more.
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Roy Hasson - Career Progressions in Data & Tech, Open Table Formats, and more
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Roy Hasson and I chat about career progressions in data and technology, open table formats (Iceberg), and more.
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5 Minute Friday - Outputs vs Outcomes
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Are your outputs generating the right outcomes? I'm in Austin for Data Day Texas, and I reflect on this topic via a conversation I had last night with Juan Sequeda, Tim Gasper, and Santona Tuli. In 2024, outcomes will matter more than ever. What are you doing to drive the right outcomes for your organization?…
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Ari Kaplan - Data Intelligence, Evangelism, and More
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Ari Kaplan (Head of Evangelism at Databricks) joins me to chat about all things data intelligence, data lakehouses, the role of evangelism in tech companies, automation, and much more.
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5 Minute Friday - How I Define Data Modeling (today)
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I chat about my working (and evolving) definition of data modeling. In short, we need to move beyond a human-centric view of data modeling, as most data is consumed by machines.
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Jordan Morrow - The OG of Data Literacy
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Jordan Morrow and I hung out at my house and chatted about all things data literacy, the great outdoors, and more. Enjoy!
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5 Minute Friday - Data Engineering in 2024. What I'm Seeing.
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What am I seeing in data engineering in 2024? Listen and find out.
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Steve Nouri - Building a Global Data Community
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Steve Nouri has a massive following on LinkedIn, travels the world speaking at conferences and advising companies, and most recently created a community - Generative AI, on LinkedIn. We chat about being an influencer, building and growing a community, and much more.
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5 Minute Friday - Practical Data Modeling
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I often get some questions - What happened to data modeling? Where do I learn data modeling? Where the heck is your new book? Well, at least some of your questions will be answered in this podcast. I'm launching a new project called Practical Data Modeling on Substack. You'll get weekly articles, early chapters of my new data modeling book, communi…
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5 Minute Friday - My Thoughts on New Years Predictions and Resolutions
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It's that time of year - lots of predictions and resolutions. I rant about my thoughts on New Years predictions and resolutions, stuff I'm stoked on in 2024, and more. I sincerely appreciate each and every one of you for your support. It means a ton. Happy 2024!!!
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Will Gaviria Rojas - Using AI to Bring Structure to Unstructured Data
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Will Gaviria Rojas (co-founder of CoactiveAI) and I sit in a hotel bar and chat about the amazing world of unstructured data and AI. We chat about searching unstructured datasets (without metadata), the state of AI, and much more. Will is one of my favorite people in general, so I really enjoyed our chat. Enjoy!…
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5 Minute Friday - The Internet of Sh*t
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What happens when AI can generate content about whatever - or whoever - whether it's true or not? Welcome to 2023 and beyond. I think the Internet is about to become a sea of complete sh*t of uninteresting and inaccurate content. The value of most content on the Internet will be less than worthless. What can content creators and authors do? I provi…
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5 Minute Friday - AI Underpants Gnomes - C-Level Edition
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Just wrapped up a couple of days at the CDO/CAIO Summit in Boston. There are a lot of corporate mandates to "do AI", but also a disconnect in the support and empowerment required to succeed. I unpack some observations of this disconnect, and why it reminds of of the South Park Underpants Gnomes - "AI...?...Profit"…
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Eleanor Thompson - Partnerships Deep Dive
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Eleanor Thompson is the most knowledgeable person I know on the topic of vendor partnerships. We dive into the details of what makes a great partnership, tips on starting a partner program, certifications, and much more. Are you a technology or data vendor looking to start a partnership program, or improve your existing one? Or a consulting company…
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Ben Rogojan, aka Seattle Data Guy - Origin Stories, Content Creation, and More
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Ben Rogojan, aka Seattle Data Guy, needs no introduction. He's a force of nature in the data engineering content world. We chat about his origin story (sort of like a superhero), content creation, consulting, cooking, and much more.
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