Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast
260 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago -Catalog and Cocktails is an honest, no-BS, non-sales-y conversation about data and analytics. This is your unfiltered chat about everything interesting in data and metadata management, DataOps, architecture, and beyond. Join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper to explore emerging topics and hear from visionary leaders across the data space.
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We need your Honest No-BS Feedback! What should we do next?
June 04, 2024 00:32 - 4 minutes - 4.2 MBThanks to all Catalog & Cocktails #honestnobs data podcast listeners who have been following us for 4 years. Tim and Juan are going to take a break for a few weeks to brainstorm what’s next, and we would appreciate your honest no-bs feedback! We would love your input: - What new topics should we cover? - What topics should we dive into? - Should we have a new format (e.g panel, debates)? - Who would you like to see as a guest? Reach out to us on LinkedIn or email [email protected] to ...
What is AI Ops with Brandon Gadoci
May 23, 2024 13:00 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBAI Ops is a new and upcoming role focused on understanding and improving the business process by using AI. In this episode, Brandon Gadoci, VP of AI Ops at data.world shares his experience on how to get started and what are the opportunities for the business.
TAKEAWAYS - What is AI Ops with Brandon Gadoci
May 22, 2024 22:30 - 7 minutes - 6.51 MBAI Ops is a new and upcoming role focused on understanding and improving the business process by using AI. In this episode, Brandon Gadoci, VP of AI Ops at data.world shares his experience on how to get started and what are the opportunities for the business.
4 Years of our Honest No-BS Podcast, Live from Gartner D&A Summit in London
May 17, 2024 21:59 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBWe can’t believe it’s been 4 years since the start of Catalog & Cocktails! In this episode, Tim and Juan will reminisce on 4 years of the podcast, reflect on developments in the data world, and share takeaways from Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London. We'll also close with tips for those looking to start their own podcast.
Everything you wanted to know about Knowledge Graphs but were afraid to ask with Ora Lassila
May 09, 2024 12:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBKnowledge Graphs are gaining more and more attention due to their role of structuring data and knowledge and providing accuracy for LLMs through GraphRAG. In this episode, we are joined by Ora Lassila, one of the “fathers” of RDF graphs and semantic web, which are the foundations for modern knowledge graphs, where we will dive into the questions you’ve always wanted to ask but haven’t.
TAKEAWAYS - Everything you wanted to know about Knowledge Graphs but were afraid to ask with Ora Lassila
May 09, 2024 00:01 - 9 minutes - 8.68 MBKnowledge Graphs are gaining more and more attention due to their role of structuring data and knowledge and providing accuracy for LLMs through GraphRAG. In this episode, we are joined by Ora Lassila, one of the “fathers” of RDF graphs and semantic web, which are the foundations for modern knowledge graphs, where we will dive into the questions you’ve always wanted to ask but haven’t.
Leadership transformation in this Data and AI world with Sol Rashidi
May 07, 2024 21:33 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBCDO, CDAO, CAIO, CIO, CTO! Oh my, it's a cluster! Sol Rashidi joins Tim and Juan to help navigate this cluster, sharing honest no bs advice from her vast experience in the Data and AI world. If you are a leader, or a practioner aspiring to go to leadership, this is the must listen episode!
TAKEAWAYS - Leadership transformation in this Data and AI world with Sol Rashidi
May 07, 2024 19:09 - 7 minutes - 6.72 MBCDO, CDAO, CAIO, CIO, CTO! Oh my, it's a cluster! Sol Rashidi joins Tim and Juan to help navigate this cluster, sharing honest no bs advice from her vast experience in the Data and AI world. If you are a leader, or a practioner aspiring to go to leadership, this is the must listen episode!
Demystifying Vector Databases with Bob van Luijt
April 25, 2024 20:57 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBWhen you think about Gen AI applications, one of the first things that comes to mind is Vector Databases as part of the stack. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Bob van Luijt, co-founder of Weaviate, to demystify Vector Databases.
TAKEAWAYS - Demystifying Vector Databases with Bob van Luijt
April 25, 2024 15:27 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBWhen you think about Gen AI applications, one of the first things that comes to mind is Vector Databases as part of the stack. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Bob van Luijt, co-founder of Weaviate, to demystify Vector Databases.
Crawl, Walk, and Run on How to be AI Ready with Peter Kromhout and Mariam Halfhide
April 18, 2024 13:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBEveryone wants to be doing AI and we know that data is at the center. So, how do we become AI Ready? Tim and Juan chat with Peter Kromhout and Mariam Halfhide from Xebia to discuss strategies and techniques to become AI Ready.
TAKEAWAYS - Crawl, Walk, and Run on How to be AI Ready with Peter Kromhout and Mariam Halfhide
April 17, 2024 23:15 - 6 minutes - 6.27 MBEveryone wants to be doing AI and we know that data is at the center. So, how do we become AI Ready? Tim and Juan chat with Peter Kromhout and Mariam Halfhide from Xebia to discuss strategies and techniques to become AI Ready.
Who’s buying Data Catalogs and Why? with Neil Burge
April 11, 2024 04:33 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBNeil Burge has been researching who’s been buying data catalogs and why. His LinkedIn posts are a gold mine for data practitioners, leaders and vendors. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Neil to go over his research, learnings and recommendations for the data industry.
TAKEAWAYS - Who’s buying Data Catalogs and Why? with Neil Burge
April 10, 2024 22:15 - 8 minutes - 7.45 MBNeil Burge has been researching who’s been buying data catalogs and why. His LinkedIn posts are a gold mine for data practitioners, leaders and vendors. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Neil to go over his research, learnings and recommendations for the data industry.
Data Security and AI: How to get them on the same page with Jesse Sedler
April 04, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBData governance and security may be scary and hard, but with the right solutions in place, data teams can enable the right balance between security and usability to drive their businesses forward!
TAKEAWAYS - Data Security and AI: How to get them on the same page with Jesse Sedler
April 03, 2024 22:50 - 8 minutes - 7.97 MBData governance and security may be scary and hard, but with the right solutions in place, data teams can enable the right balance between security and usability to drive their businesses forward!
Live from Data Council Austin: what’s your honest no-bs take of the data world?
March 28, 2024 16:33 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBTim and Juan will be attending Data Council Austin and will be live interviewing anyone who wants to be interviewed! One question: what’s your honest no-bs take of the data world?
What data will say when you're willing to listen with Scott Taylor
March 21, 2024 13:47 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBShhh...do you hear that? It's the Data Whisperer. And he's here to tell a story: A data story. He'll disclose some hard-won truths. He'll philosophically approach the idea of truth before meaning. There may even be...data puppets.
TAKEAWAYS - What data will say when you're willing to listen with Scott Taylor
March 20, 2024 23:10 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBShhh...do you hear that? It's the Data Whisperer. And he's here to tell a story: A data story. He'll disclose some hard-won truths. He'll philosophically approach the idea of truth before meaning. There may even be...data puppets.
Gartner Data and Analytics 2024 Takeaways: Metadata is Everywhere with Cris Hadjez from Norwegian Cruise Lines
March 14, 2024 17:54 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBWhat are we hearing at talks and in the hallways at Gartner Data and Analytics 2024? AI is not only the cool kid, Metadata is everywhere. Join us to learn about the latest takeaways from the conference.
When business goals and data strategies align with Amy Raygada
March 11, 2024 16:24 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBAmy works at the cross-section of arguably the most important thing to a business: aligning data strategy with corporate vision. How do you ACTUALLY use data to achieve business goals, and how do you know if you're going in the right direction? Amy stops by to discuss.
Don't lift and shift: Data governance to AI Governance with Karen Meppen
February 26, 2024 14:17 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBYou can’t lift and shift your traditional data governance practices to AI governance. AI's unique quirks bring unique governance requirements: understanding its limitations, ensuring fairness, protecting personal and intellectual property rights, and tailoring accuracy to specific use cases.
Another sucky year for startups and investment? with Eva Nahari
February 15, 2024 17:03 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBIf you really want to win, you need to take some risks and be the first with something new. But how do you minimize risk? Eva Nahari, Principal at DNX ventures, talks to us about the current genAI investment environment.
Bridging Innovation and Open Source to the Real World with Paco Nathan
February 08, 2024 17:27 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBPaco Nathan has a career on bridging innovation and open source project on Data and AI to the real world. This episode will be his honest, no-bs take on the impact of open source in the real world. And of course, we will also talk about Knowledge Graphs and LLMs.
Without information architecture, there is no AI with Jessica Talisman
January 31, 2024 23:54 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBA world without AI? Unimaginable. And that's why - so is a world without information architecture, according to Jessica Talisman, information architect at Amazon. Information architecture extends beyond browse menus and UX/UI. We talk about why.
Productivity is not performance with Santona Tuli
January 30, 2024 19:48 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBSantona Tuli is the head of data at Upsolver. She's a voice we like to listen to about how data teams assemble: data roles, data culture, the function of data at a company...She stops by Catalog & Cocktails to talk workflows, architecture, and looking at data teams with a 10,000-foot view.
The data mesh-terclass
January 19, 2024 14:34 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBSamia Rahman is the Director of Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance at Seagen. She's a data mesh expert, and she's here to tell us why data mesh often gets mesh-understood. Also - we discuss knowledge graphs, prompt engineering, and whether AI and data governance should be separate.
How will AI impact 2024 and beyond?
January 11, 2024 16:26 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBJeremiah Owyang is a general partner at Blitzscaling Ventures. His career arc has spanned web, sharing economy, and autonomous/AI technologies. He believes that AI is going to help humanity accomplish many of the big challenges we have for society, from health to learning to work and more. But the way we communicate and measure work will change - radically. What does our AI-future look like? He stops by to discuss.
Season 6 Finale with Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda
December 15, 2023 13:53 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MB2023 is coming to a close and so is our season 6 with 20 episodes. Join Tim and Juan where they will provide the takeaway of takeaways for all the episodes of season 6. We will be back in January 2024 and kick off Season 7.
Data Contracts and Shift Responsibility to Left with Andrew Jones
December 01, 2023 15:52 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBData contracts are all the rage and it’s about shifting responsibility to the left. What does that actually mean? How do you do that? Do we actually need more technology for it? Who needs to be involved? So many honest no-bs questions and who best to answer them than Andrew Jones, inventor of data contracts.
Making Data Science more Accessible with Doris Lee
November 22, 2023 22:12 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBIn this episode we will chat with Doris Lee on how data science started from an exclusive, hi-tech branch, how it's become more accessible over time, and what's still missing. We will also go over the data science market and the role of open source.
Understanding the Role of Knowledge Graphs on Large Language Model’s Accuracy for Question Answering on Enterprise SQL Databases
November 22, 2023 22:07 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBInvesting in Knowledge Graph provides higher accuracy for LLM-powered question-answering systems. That's the conclusion of the latest research that Juan Sequeda, Dean Allemang and Bryon Jacob have recently presented. In this episode, we will dive into the details of this research and understand why to succeed in this AI world, enterprises must treat the business context and semantics as a first-class citizen.
Data Storytelling with Kat Greenbrook
November 02, 2023 17:52 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBData Storytelling is a topic that constantly comes up, but do we really know what it is? And what it isn’t? Who best to have this #honestnobs discussion than Kat Greenbrook, author of the upcoming book The Data Storyteller’s Handbook: How to create business impact using data storytelling.
Data Storytelling with Kat Greenbrook
November 02, 2023 17:11 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBData Storytelling is a topic that constantly comes up, but do we really know what it is? And what it isn’t? Who best to have this #honestnobs discussion than Kat Greenbrook, author of the upcoming book The Data Storyteller’s Handbook: How to create business impact using data storytelling.
LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Knowledge Graph, Vector Databases with Mike Dillinger
October 26, 2023 17:02 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBRAG, Retrieval Augemented Generation, is the term you now constantly hear in conjunction with LLM that provides context. But how does it actually work? And what's the relationship with Vector Databases and Knowledge Graphs? This will be a geeky AI episode with Mike Dillinger.
Data Catalogs, The Power of Collaboration with Krystin Kim
October 24, 2023 16:02 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBTechnical folks miss the boat and are boring when they talk about the features of data catalog such as glossaries and data lineage to business people. In this episode Krystin Kim will share how a data catalog should be presented to the business: the ultimate place to share ideas across big companies, a treasure trove of use cases for others to discover and make even better, recipes to make amazing things that returns millions in business value.
Data Stewardship, Data Product Management, Data Governance and AI with Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda
October 12, 2023 16:41 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBWhat's the state of data stewardship today and where is it going? Will data stewards continue to exist? How is this evolving with respect to data products? And what is the impact of AI? All of these questions and more is what Tim and Juan ranted about in this episode.
Generative AI, Data Products and Business Value with Jon Cooke
October 05, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBWith the hype of Generative AI, how do we keep focused on the goal of delivering the right valuable and business facing analytics and data use-cases with as low friction and maximum agility as possible? Jon Cooke, founder of Dataception has a lot of honest no-bs thoughts to share!
TAKEAWAYS - Generative AI, Data Products and Business Value with Jon Cooke
October 04, 2023 22:25 - 9 minutes - 8.58 MBTakeaways from With the hype of Generative AI, how do we keep focused on the goal of delivering the right valuable and business facing analytics and data use-cases with as low friction and maximum agility as possible? Jon Cooke, founder of Dataception has a lot of honest no-bs thoughts to share!
From London to San Francisco: Summary of BigDataLDN and AI Conference
September 28, 2023 12:27 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBTim and Juan provide an honest no-bs summary of what they observed and learned at Big Data London and the AI Conference in San Francisco. Tune in to get the latest on Data and AI and short interviews from Peter Norvig (Google), Nazneen Rajani (Hugging Face), Fabiana Clemente (YData), Danny Bickson (Visual Layer), Gev Sogomonian (AimStack), Yujian Tang (Zilliz), Patrick McFadin (Datasax) and Ofer Mendelevitch (Vectara)
Business Value on the #meandatastreets with Chris Tabb
September 21, 2023 12:39 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBLive from #meandatastreets of Big Data London, Tim and Juan will be chatting with Chris Tabb on how data teams need to be driving the message on providing the ability to increase the performance of the business across all domains with the use if data.
Tim and Juan Rant from Amsterdam: where is the data budget?
September 14, 2023 14:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBTim and Juan will share their latest thoughts about where the budget for data projects are heading.
Data that Doesn't Drive Results is Useless with Alexa Westlake
September 07, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBIf data isn't driving results is useless. In this episode, Alexa Westlake will share from her experience on how to define and scale a council, create a culture of joint ownership of metrics, and discuss the relationship between outputs and outcomes.
What does Data Lakehouse, Sports and Generative AI have in common? with Ari Kaplan
August 31, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBSports analytics requires video, scouting textual reports, streaming data, numerical results of games. How can these types of analytics be accomplished? Where does Generative AI fit? Enter the data lakehouse. Ari Kaplan, the real money ball guy, will share his experience with Tim and Juan.
From Technical to Business Data Strategy with Aaron Wilkerson from Carhartt
August 24, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBAre you a data leader with a technical data strategy and struggling to connect it with the business? Are you trying to get a “seat at the table” and not succeeding? This episode is for you! Aaron Wilkerson will share his thoughts and learnings with Tim and Juan
TAKEAWAYS - From Technical to Business Data Strategy with Aaron Wilkerson from Carhartt
August 24, 2023 00:18 - 9 minutes - 8.75 MBAre you a data leader with a technical data strategy and struggling to connect it with the business? Are you trying to get a “seat at the table” and not succeeding? This episode is for you! Aaron Wilkerson will share his thoughts and learnings with Tim and Juan
Juan and Tim rant about AI and Chatting with your data
August 17, 2023 14:00 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBWhile Juan is out on PTO he took this time to reflect on all the chatter around AI and Generative AI and it's impact on being able to "talk to your data." Tim also offers his own thoughts on the importance of how this impacts the business.
Data Sustainability w/ Simone Steel
August 10, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBHave you asked yourself what is the relationship between the exponential growth of data and the environmental and business sustainability goals? Simone Steel, an experienced CDAO, has been asking these questions. This episode is a follow up to her thought provoking presentation at 2023 CDOIQ Conference.
TAKEAWAYS - Data Sustainability w/ Simone Steel
August 09, 2023 23:46 - 8 minutes - 8.19 MBHave you asked yourself what is the relationship between the exponential growth of data and the environmental and business sustainability goals? Simone Steel, an experienced CDAO, has been asking these questions. This episode is a follow up to her thought provoking presentation at 2023 CDOIQ Conference.
Is Data a First Class Citizen in your Company? w/ Wendy Turner-Williams
August 03, 2023 15:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBEveryone says they want to be a data-driven driven company. To do so, data must be a first class citizen, at the heart of all strategy and reporting to the CEO. Is that really happening at your company? Wendy Turner-Williams will discuss how data is at the center of AI, Ethics, Privacy, Security and more.