The Data Stack Show

Introducing my new role as The Cynical Data Guy on The Data Stack Show! The first episode (of a monthly gig) came out a few weeks ago but I was on vacation and then came back to my role changing in my day job. It is always fun going back and forth with John Wessel, only difference now is the mics. Highlight is we talked about if you can change the culture to be data driven at a company (spoiler: no, it’s a myth) Listen to the first episode here👇 https://lnkd.in/egvhuacV

🚀 We're launching a new monthly special feature today: The Cynical Data Guy Tune in every month to get cynical, spicy takes on the latest trends and topics in data from Matthew Kelliher-Gibson, MBA. And a more balanced, agreeable take from John Wessel. This week we answer: 🤔 Will we finally prioritize metadata in the LLM age? 🤔 Is data-driven a myth? 🤔 Are no-code ETL tools just a tarpit idea? 👋 Adam Lenning 😆 🎧 Listen: https://spoti.fi/4eh4EUH

"Is [no code ETL] a tarpit idea, yes" – Matthew Kelliher-Gibson, MBA The Cynical Data Guy "I really like no-code for embedded analysts" – John Wessel The Agreeable Data Guy Thanks for giving us some great fodder for our first-ever edition of The Cynical Data Guy, Adam Lenning 🙂 https://lnkd.in/eefUHzuA

Binny Gill’s vision for the future of programming is nothing short of revolutionary. He's building Kognitos, a smarter operating system that runs English language business SOPs as code. Tune in to this week’s episode to learn all about the platform and find out: 👦 How his son and Amazon Alexa sparked the vision for Kognitos 🥧 Why grandma’s apple pie recipe is a program 🧠 What the human brain does naturally that current operating systems lack 📄 Why we need ‘resumes’ for different large language models Listen: https://spoti.fi/3RbHsNG

Love to see two former show guests joining forces today with Redpanda Data's acquisition of Benthos. Congrats Ashley Jeffs and Alexander Gallego! We're betting Blobfish turned that frown upside down and went into cool mode today. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gpUfGYgs And put the episodes with Ashley 👉 https://lnkd.in/emdYMVaG and Alex 👉 https://lnkd.in/eqGawy5P on your listening list.

Indulge your curiosity and get some practical advice from David McCandless this week: 🍦 Indulge your curiosity 🔹 How does one pivot from chemical engineering in oil & gas to data? 🔹 What’s it like working in data at Amazon? 🔹 Does the Amazon 6-page memo work? ✅ Get practical 🔹 How can you use time series forecasting to create business value? 🔹 What does an economical, but scalable, data stack look like for SMB? 🔹 What’s one key tradeoff to consider when communicating insights downstream? Listen: https://spoti.fi/3R6mlfw

Last time Seattle Data Guy, Benjamin Rogojan, joined the show he was building data pipelines at Meta, and he still lived in Seattle 😆 👨🏫 Now he’s one of the most sought-after educators and consultants in data Tune in to the show this week to get his insight on aligning your work with business needs to drive better outcomes. Ben discusses: ⚖️ The different and similar data problems at META scale vs. mid market companies 🛠️ How the #moderndatastack solves problems and how it creates them ⚠️ Warning signs for business / data misalignment Listen: https://spoti.fi/4bJ4GmN

This week PM Ryan McCrary joined us from the home team, RudderStack. ⚡ We talked about data modeling, audience segmentation, and data activation. Tune in for some insight on why the data team should own the ‘first cut’ of segmentation around core business definitions, why this belongs in the warehouse, and how it sets business teams up for self-serve success. 🚢 You'll also learn about two new features Ryan just shipped to enable data teams to establish core customer segments in the warehouse, then provide business users safe access to explore the data, build audiences for their use cases, and self-serve the exact data they want in their own tools. 🎧 Listen: https://spoti.fi/3ylLOv3

This week Matthew Kelliher-Gibson, MBA joins us to talk about connecting data work to business value. Matt shares lessons from over a decade in data: 🧰 Buying data infrastructure tooling – Why it’s hard and how to do it right 🔎 Uncovering the work that matters – Getting past stakeholder request busywork to make an impact 🔓 Unlocking business analysts – Why data teams and business analysts should team up 🎧 Listen for more insights: https://spoti.fi/3Uy8waL

It's a bittersweet week for The Data Stack Show. 🫡 After 187 episodes, venerable co-host Kostas Pardalis is saying goodbye (for now). But the show ain't going anywhere 😀 This week on the show Kostas passes the torch to Eric Dodds’s new cohost, John Wessel. Listen in for a special episode to find out what Kostas is up to (Hint: he’s in stealth mode 🥷) and welcome John aboard! 🤗 Kostas, grateful doesn’t even begin to express how we’re feeling. The Data Stack Show quite literally would not exist without you. Thanks for getting this thing started and for delivering so much amazing knowledge to the data world week-in, week-out for the past 3-½ years. We’ll get you back on for an update soon. 🎧 Listen: https://spoti.fi/3wrn4km