Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast
260 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month 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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Stuck in the middle: how to become an advocate for a data catalog and governance
July 22, 2020 23:31 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MB60% of organizations will use data catalogs by 2023. This prediction by IDC suggests a large number of companies are still using manual and complex processes to make sense of data. This includes standing up multiple data lakes, disparate database technologies, and a rash of BI tools. The struggle is real. So is the benefit of an enterprise data catalog. Join Juan, Tim, and Stewart Coerver, director of sales engineering at data.world, to talk about how to untangle the data mess in your organ...
What the pandemic can teach us about data governance
July 15, 2020 15:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThe coronavirus pandemic is also a case study in public data. Everywhere we look we find statistics: number of coronavirus cases, unemployment levels, economic predictions, etc. But this unprecedented access to data also leaves us with lots of questions: Can we trust the data? Is there unintentional bias in the data and analytical algorithms? What role does data governance play? In episode 9, Tim, Juan, and Anoop Lalla, former VP Enterprise Data and Analytics at Workday, chat about data ...
How does data policy impact you?
July 08, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBSuccessful enterprises understand the importance of data-informed decisions. But what role does data play in government affairs? In episode 8, Juan and Tim are joined by Corinna Turbes from the Data Coalition to explore the processes, challenges, and outcomes of data policy. Together, we’ll look at how data impacts legislative actions (and vice versa) and how these policies affect businesses and individual citizens.
What's the story with data lineage?
July 01, 2020 14:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBHow can you be certain the data you’re working with is trusted, up-to-date and understandable? Data lineage tells you where data originated, how it's used, and what transformations are applied as it flows from data sources and ETL workflows to downstream data marts and dashboards. In episode 7, Tim, Juan, and special guest Ernie Ostic from MANTA discuss how mapping data - and all its associated metadata and dependencies - leads to cleaner analysis and better business decisions.
What’s the deal with knowledge graphs?
June 24, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBWhat do companies like Airbnb, Google, and Lyft have in common? They put knowledge graphs at the center of their metadata and data strategy. In episode 6, Tim and Juan talk about knowledge graph technology - how it works, why it works, and why it should be part of your metadata and data management strategy.
How does your data team get value from a data catalog?
June 17, 2020 22:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBLast week we chatted about data producers, data consumers and the need for a data product manager; and their pain points. In this episode, we will chat how these pain points should be addressed by a data catalog in order to provide value to data teams. Juan and Tim will compare and contrast old-world data access and collaboration techniques with a modern approach.
Who’s on your data team?
June 10, 2020 21:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBYou don’t have to have the word “data” in your title to be a data person. For example, Juan and Tim don’t, but they are very much part of our data team. In this episode, we will chat about the myriad personas that interact with data, from producers to consumers and everything in between.
Data integration from the trenches
May 27, 2020 21:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBEvery hero has an origin story. In episode three, data.world CTO and co-founder Bryon Jacob joins Juan and Tim to share how data integration nightmares in a prior role put him on the path to data and metadata enlightenment.
Don't boil the ocean. Boil a fishbowl.
May 20, 2020 21:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBJoin Juan and Tim for a deeper dive on data catalogs. This episode will look at how catalogs can address the continuum of metadata and data management and give you an achievable starting point on your journey to understanding all your data.
The future of data management
May 13, 2020 21:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBThe data landscape is constantly evolving: Data warehouses, big data, data lakes. How did we get here? Where is it all heading? Step up to the bar, and join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper as they discuss the future of enterprise data management.