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It's Friday, Juan and Tim rant about Decisions, Context, MCP and Maturity Models Feb 06, 2026

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Juan and Tim grab a beer and rant about decision intelligence and context graphs, MCP vs Skills, and how companies really have a work problem (not a data/AI problem) and what is the maturity model to get that work done

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Stop Chasing AI Hype. Start Counting Dollars. w/ Juan Gorricho Feb 05, 2026

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Tired of executives breathlessly asking "what's our AI strategy?" while your data team drowns in 1,000 dashboards that nobody uses? In this episode, Juan and Tim cut through the noise with Juan Gorricho a data and analytics executive with more than 25 years of experience delivering business value at TD Bank, Visa, The Walt Disney Company

We cover: Why do data leaders keep building vanity metrics instead of business value? How do you go from being an "order-taking reporting team" to a trusted decision intelligence partner? And why does every data governance initiative feel like building policies nobody wants to follow?

The secret? Do it by slice. Not top-down. Not bottom-up. By slice—connecting each data product to real business outcomes while building reusable foundations underneath.

If you're ready to turn your data team's NPS around and build trust that actually sticks, this one's for you.

Spoiler: It starts with being brave enough to tell executives the truth. And btw, "I bet 40 columns drive 90% of your business."

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TAKEAWAY - Stop Chasing AI Hype. Start Counting Dollars. w/ Juan Gorricho Feb 04, 2026

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This is the takeaway episode of our chat with Juan Gorricho, a data and analytics executive with more than 25 years of experience delivering business value at TD Bank, Visa, The Walt Disney Company. We cover: Why do data leaders keep building vanity metrics instead of business value? How do you go from being an "order-taking reporting team" to a trusted decision intelligence partner? And why does every data governance initiative feel like building policies nobody wants to follow? And so much more. If you liked these takeaways, listen to the full episode!

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It's Friday, Juan and Tim rant with Data Day Texas takeaways Jan 30, 2026

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Juan and Tim got together for a beer to rant about what's on their mind, the latest in the data world and share Data Day Texas takeaways

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All things Data Lineage with Dr. Irina Steenbeek Jan 29, 2026

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Dr. Irina Steenbeek is a data practitioner, and author of multiple books including Data Lineage from a Business Perspective. In this episode, Juan and Tim discuss with Irina the practical realities of implementing data lineage and its relationship to Data and AI governance. For example, do you really need to have a comprehensive technical lineage? A lot of honest no-bs nuggets in this episode!

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TAKEAWAY - All things Data Lineage with Dr. Irina Steenbeek Jan 28, 2026

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This is the takeaway episode with Dr. Irina Steenbeek, a data practitioner, and author of multiple books including Data Lineage from a Business Perspective. In this episode, Juan and Tim discuss with Irina the practical realities of implementing data lineage and its relationship to Data and AI governance.

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Ontologies Aren’t New with Oscar Corcho Jan 22, 2026

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Ontologies are suddenly everywhere but they didn’t come out of nowhere.

In this episode, Juan and Tim chat with Professor Oscar Corcho, who has been doing ontology engineering since the early 2000s (check out his book Ontological Engineering from 2003), to demystify what ontologies actually are, where they came from, and why that history still matters today.

If you’re new to ontologies or feeling lost in the current hype, this episode gives you the grounding you didn’t know you needed to understand where the field has been and where it should be going next.

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TAKEAWAY - Ontologies Aren’t New with Oscar Corcho Jan 21, 2026

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This is the takeaway episode of our conversation with Professor Oscar Corcho, who has been doing ontology engineering since the early 2000s where we demystify what ontologies actually are, where they came from, and why that history still matters today.

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It's Friday! Juan and Tim rant about data and context graphs Jan 16, 2026

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Juan and Tim rant about Context Graphs and categorizations of how companies work with data.

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2026 Trends in the data world with Tony Baer and Matt Housley Jan 15, 2026

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Tim and Juan chat with Tony Baer and Matt Housley, hosts of the “It’s About Data” podcast about what are the trends they are seeing with the start of 2026. We talked about AI magical thinking, Agentic architectures, Graphs, careers and much more.

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