Stay ConnectedI’m Joe Reis, co-author of Fundamentals of Data Engineering, creator of Mixed Model Arts, international speaker, and long-time observer of the tech industry’s favorite recurring mistakes.
Weekly broadcasts from somewhere on the road. Expect raw solo rants and long-form conversations with the engineers and leaders actually building things. I dive into data, AI, architecture, and career survival.
This podcast is invitation-only. Unsolicited guest pitches and PR outreach are not considered.
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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).
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/
Is it better to make a perfect or good enough data model? It depends…
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/
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-value-chains
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.
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/1394202237
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
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.
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.analystbuilder.com/
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