Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast
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.
Episodes
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Data Storytelling with Kat Greenbrook
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Data 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.
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
RAG, 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.
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Data Catalogs, The Power of Collaboration with Krystin Kim
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Technical 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.
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
What'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.
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Generative AI, Data Products and Business Value with Jon Cooke
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
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!
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
TAKEAWAYS - Generative AI, Data Products and Business Value with Jon Cooke
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Takeaways 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!
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
From London to San Francisco: Summary of BigDataLDN and AI Conference
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Tim 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)
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Business Value on the #meandatastreets with Chris Tabb
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Live 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.
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Tim and Juan Rant from Amsterdam: where is the data budget?
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Tim and Juan will share their latest thoughts about where the budget for data projects are heading.
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Data that Doesn’t Drive Results is Useless with Alexa Westlake
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
If 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.