Monday Morning Data Chat

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#144 - Data Career Advice w/ Matt Housley, Chris Tabb, and Joe Reis Sep 18, 2023

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The data job market is certainly evolving. Matt, Chris, and Joe have a candid chat and AMA about career advice going into 2024.

#143 - The Future of Generative AI in Data Analytics w/ Amit Prakash Sep 11, 2023

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Amit Prakash (CTO/Co-Founder of Thoughtspot) joins the show to chat about the future of generative AI in data analytics. Thoughtspot has been a leader in searchable analytics, and it will be interesting to get Amit's take on where the field of analytics is heading next.

#142 - Incentivizing Devs to Pursue Open-Source Projects w/ Max Howell Sep 04, 2023

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Max Howell created Homebrew, one of the most popular open-source software (OSS) packages on the planet. He's also the founder of tea.xyz, which is helping incentivize developers to pursue their OSS projects.
In this episode, we chat about the realities and future of OSS, how developers can be remunerated for their OSS projects, and much more.

Tea: tea.xyz

#141 - Data Vendors and Grifters w/ Aaron Hunsaker Aug 29, 2023

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Aaron Hunsaker joins Matthew Housley and I to chat about data grifters, dealing with vendors, how data people should converse with "the business", and much more. Aaron doesn't hold back.
Enjoy this very candid in-person chat.

#140 - The Power of 3 (Math Nerds, Professors, and Authors) w/ Hala Nelson Aug 21, 2023

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Hala Nelson joins the show to chat writing books, teaching math, and much more. It's not often we get three math nerds, professors, and authors in the same conversation, and this is a lot of fun. Enjoy!

#139 - Streaming Data Processing Deep Dive w/ David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger (Estuary) Aug 14, 2023

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David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger (both from Estuary) join the show to do a deep dive into streaming data processing. We also cover how to scale change data capture (CDC) and where transformations belong in data pipelines.

Estuary: https://estuary.dev/

Gazette: https://gazette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Note - Joe's audio was having issues for this episode. Apologies.

#138 - The Rise and Importance of Business Language w/ John O'Gorman Aug 07, 2023

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Multiple products, versions, platforms, targets technologies, formats, and locales? How do you make sense of the "multiple of multiples" challenge from a technical perspective? The "language of the business" and data in all its structured, semi-structured, and 'unstructured' forms helps drive this home.
John O'Gorman has world-class expertise in language, semantics, and tying this together for the business. We hope you learn something new from this episode.

#137 - Why Apache Iceberg Won the Table Format War, Data Mesh, and More w/ Brian Olsen Jul 31, 2023

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Brian Olsen joins us again to chat about why Apache Iceberg won the table format war. We also finish our chat from last time about Data Mesh. #dataengineering #datalake #datamesh

#136 - Programming Languages for Data Science, and Why Your BI Team is Your Best Bet for Data Science w/ Dave Langer Jul 24, 2023

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David Langer joins the show to chat about how programming languages for data science, BI teams have a unique advantage in helping introduce data science into their organizations.

#135 - Dataframe Deep Dive w/ Devin Petersohn Jul 18, 2023

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Devin Petersohn (Modin, Ponder) knows a thing or two about dataframes, having done his PhD thesis on them, among other related achievements. We'll talk about all things dataframes, both high level and in the weeds. If you've ever wanted to learn about dataframes, this is the discussion for you.

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