Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

Data Engineering: where are we and where are we going? w/ Joe Reis and Matt Housley of Ternary Data

What is the state of Data engineering today and where is it going (or should it be going)? Who better to talk about Data Engineering than the authors of the recent O’Reilly book “Fundamentals of Data Engineering”, Joe Reis and Matt Housley from Ternary Data. Join Tim, Juan, Joe and Matt to discuss the state of data engineering. Conversation highlights: [00:44] Introduction to Joe Reis and Matt Housley[03:24] Warm up: what have you engineered or built that has gone terribly wrong?[08:28] Data engineering tools and magpie syndrome[13:15] How often and where do you see data teams stumbling to get the value out of the technology they have?[17:08] Thoughts on diving deep into technologies where there is a skills gap[19:39] The curse of familiarity in the context of tools[23:55] Learning outside the context of an enterprise, and continously educating yourself on data[27:23] Data modeling and where to start learning[30:48] Data modeling = business concepts and definitions to relations among data[32:05] The human aspect and technical side of data modeling[36:19] Business literacy for data engineers[38:39] The lifecycle of data[43:02] Analytics engineering, the knowledge scientists[46:09] Roles within data engineering and bifurcation[48:26 The future of data engineering and tabular data[52:12] Auto Machine Learning and Tabular Data[55:00] Lightning round[01:01:01] Tim and Juan's takeaways[01:06:18] Three questions about data, life, resources and the show's next guest

Takeaways with Joe Reis and Matt Housley of Ternary Data

Catalog & Cocktails: Bonus Episode with John Kutay

Lucid Streaming; how to take full advantage of data streamingData streaming, Stream Processing, Real-time analytics, operational analytics — what is this? What’s the difference?Most important use cases for data streamingThere are lots of misconceptions especially for the MDS crowd (not as much enterprise) between fast batch vs streamingMemory-first processing (in-memory) vs disk space batch jobsChange data capture (and only capture of change)Data warehouses are now tying to support streaming more (like Snowflake)This will be a big deal to make it so that more streaming can happen Streaming warehouses (Rockset, Materialize) vs data streamingLineage - transformed data - can I trust this data I'm looking atHow does data streaming and lineage come together? What’s unique about lineage in a streaming context?If time: what does it mean to do streaming data products in a data mesh context?

Your thoughts become action; going from Thought Leadership to Practice w/ Roel and Valentijn of Vopak

You are listening to great talks, podcasts, webinars on how to improve and take your data and analytics to the next level. You want to take all these ideas and start implementing them in your organization. But how do you start? Join Tim, Juan and Roel Pot, Global Data Manager at Vopak where they discuss how to go from thought leadership to practice.Conversation highlights: [01:09] Today's drinks[05:02] Sifting through noise and convincing your organization on the importance of data[07:11] Challenging tradition in data governance and modeling[09:53] Data as an asset and finding business value[14:06] Data and business literacy through the data academy[18:16] Bridging the gap in language, business, and data literacy[19:48] The academy's purpose[21:16] Building Vopak into a resilient company to last another 400 years[25:21] How being an asset-rich business has affected Vopak's data strategy[27:45] Connecting the dots with data acquisition and distributed systems[29:58] Decentralized teams and better collaboration[31:51] Real-time data sensors and minimizing time for data analysis[35:24] Why real-time for analytics?[36:24] To Data Mesh, or Not To Data Mesh[38:46] Self-service and understanding ways of gathering and processing data[40:19] Different roles and the confusion it can cause within organizations

Takeways with Roel and Valentijn

This Takeaway episode will feature the summary of the upcoming episode with Roel and Valentijn from Vopak.

Build bridges. Don’t Burn them. W/ Vip Parmar, WPP

Catalog & Cocktails is BACK! Tune in for the SEASON FOUR PREMIERE with hosts Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper!Bridging the gap between business and IT is an age-old problem. IT doesn’t understand the business. The business doesn’t understand IT. Everyone looks at IT and business as if they were separate and point fingers, when they should actually be together. Join Tim, Juan and Vipul P., Global Head of Data Management at WPP where they discuss approaches to bridge the gap between business and IT.Conversation Highlights: [01:10] Today's Drinks[03:26] Two things that typically wouldn't go together, but do really well[05:17] Vip's thoughts on bridging the gap between business and IT[08:19] Empathy, curiosity, and measuring business value[09:58] Empowering teams to ask questions, and thinking about different company cultures[14:18] On defining roadmaps and determining business value[16:37] A culture around data and the interplay between business and IT[20:57] Data stewards and the idea of embedded roles[24:50] An ideal team structure for bridging the gap: data analysts, scientists, and super users[26:33 ] The data mesh and future leaders of tomorrow[28:30] Future leaders in data, and delivering for both IT and business needs[30:10] Empowering data literacy and learning paths[35:24] Incorporating IT and data knowledge in employee onboarding[41:19] The role of technology in bridging the business and IT gap[45:15] Lightning Round[51:02] Takeaways[55:48] Three questions for VIP[01:00:08] Next week: Raoul Pott

Season 4 Premiere Takeaways

Catalog & Cocktails is BACK! Tune in for the SEASON FOUR PREMIERE with hosts Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper!Bridging the gap between business and IT is an age-old problem. IT doesn’t understand the business. The business doesn’t understand IT. Everyone looks at IT and business as if they were separate and point fingers, when they should actually be together. Join Tim, Juan and Vipul P., Global Head of Data Management at WPP where they discuss approaches to bridge the gap between business and IT.

Bonus Episode: Juan’s Trip Takeaways from MIT CDOIQ

Juan's Trip Takeaways from MIT CDOIQ

Season 3: Bonus Episode with Producer of the show, Karli Burghoff

Ever wondered how Catalog & Cocktails happens? How does the show go from an idea to a full-blown episode every single week? Karli Burghoff, Producer of Catalog & Cocktails AND data.world Demand Generation Specialist, joins this bonus episode to talk about the processes, pains and prizes of creating a podcast. Oh, and she roasts the hosts multiple times in this episode too, don't miss that.

Season 3 Finale

Join Juan and Tim for the Season Three Finale of Catalog & Cocktails. The hosts discuss the takeaways of the takeaways, best guest moments and valuable advice from some of the guests from the last 20 episodes!