

Lights On Data Show
George Firican
Each episode puts the lights on various data topics with renowned industry experts. We cover the following topics in a fun and informative interview format: data science, data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data visualization, data storytelling, data governance, data management, data quality, data strategy, and much more.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Jul 30, 2022 • 28min
How to Create a Data Visualization That Sticks
Lee Feinberg is the Chief Data Officer and the creator of the concept, "Intent Before Content". He'll give us some tips on how to create a data visualization that sticks with the audience and the message it is trying to convey. Quick tips: its starts with the intent, knowing the audience, drawing the sketch, asking the question, and only at the end employing those data visualization best practices.

Jul 22, 2022 • 42min
How to Do Data Governance Better (Part 2)
Should data governance be called "data governance" or is there a better name for it to ensure its adoption and support? What about the "data steward" role? How should we use communication and change management to help the organization better embrace it? What are those best practices to best improve data quality? How do we stop a data lake from turning into a data swamp?
We address all these questions and more with Shinji Kim, the Founder and CEO of Select Star.

Jul 15, 2022 • 38min
Marketing Analytics vs. Product Analytics
What is the difference between marketing analytics and product analytics? How do the overlap and what should we know to harness their benefits? If you'd like to step into this field, then listen to this episode with our guest, Jean-Sebastien Provost, Ph.D. He is a data scientist with over 12 years of experience performing data analysis to uncover hidden trends in data that tell stories about behavior.

May 28, 2022 • 43min
Drive Company-Wide Metrics Alignment: A Secret Recipe
What's the secret recipe to drive company-wide metrics alignment? Arnaud de Turckheim is the CPO & Co-Founder at Castor and will reveal this to us on this Lights On Data Show episode.

May 20, 2022 • 43min
How to Engage Your Organization for Data Transformation
The data transformation is a long journey for most companies. So how should we best engage teams and individuals in the data transformation journey, help them grow the data literacy, culture, etc.? Let's address this important topic with Nicolas Averseng, Founder and CEO of YOOI.

May 13, 2022 • 42min
What is BI Governance & Why You Can't Live Without It
Marius Moscovici, CEO and Founder of Metric Insights, will define what BI Governance is and discuss the key BI governance challenges while providing a practical approach to tackling those challenges with a BI Portal. An effective BI governance strategy ensures that you are getting maximum engagement with BI across your enterprise.

May 6, 2022 • 32min
Regular People Are Missing in Too Many Data Programs
Data analyst, data scientist, data engineer, project manager, data steward, etc. We always encounter some or all of these roles in data projects and programs. But there are also some critical roles which more than often are overlooked. Because of that, most data science projects fail.
To tell us all about it, let's welcome Tom Redman, "the Data Doc", and the President of Data Quality Solutions.

May 2, 2022 • 27min
How to Best Implement a Data Catalog
Data catalogs are here to stay and a great asset to data-driven organizations. But how do you best implement a data catalog? To tell us all about it, walk us through the pitfalls to avoid and the best practices to follow, is Rupal Sumaria, the Head of Data Governance at Penguin Random House UK who successfully implemented a data catalog recently.

Apr 29, 2022 • 43min
The Data Warrior
Kent Graziano, ‘The Data Warrior,’ is an award-winning industry thought leader, author and speaker. A semi-retired Snowflake data cloud and data vault evangelist, an advisor at Lyftrondata, and an overall legend within the world of data.
We'll learn more about the mysterious data warrior, his recent move to join Lyftrondata, data warehouses and the rise of the cloud, Snowflake vs. Redshift, and many captivating stories on how companies benefited from the power of data.

Apr 21, 2022 • 45min
How to Do Data Governance Better
Why do so many data governance programs fail? What are those common pitfalls that we can avoid and what are those approaches that work better?
Shinji Kim is the Founder and CEO of Select Star and is joining us on this Lights On Data Show episode to share her thoughts and best practices on this topic.