

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.
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Nov 4, 2022 • 35min
How to Become a Cognitive Enterprise
Let's connect the dots between data management, data governance, responsible AI, diversity and inclusion and see how we can become a cognitive enterprise. Debbie Botha is a Chief Partnership Officer with Women in AI.

Oct 21, 2022 • 28min
Ensuring ROI on Predictive Analytics Projects
How to you ensure the value of your predictive analytics projects? How do you best estimate the ROI before the project stars? Let's find out.
Keith McCormick is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker, and author of seven books. He has created over 20 LinkedIn Learning courses and frequent conference workshops, and has reached 1000s of individuals trying to learn statistics, machine learning, and data science.

Oct 13, 2022 • 34min
How to Think as a Business Data Scientist
Our guest today is Ashish Patel, Chief Data Scientist at IBM. He'll share his story, how to get into the field and best practices to follow as a business data scientist. He'll also tell us why the agile methodology is not the best to use for ML/AI projects, what are the important things to follow to make your data science project successful and why failure is welcome.

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Oct 7, 2022 • 39min
Different Approaches to Data Lineage
Data lineage helps organizations understand the full story behind their data so they can make better business decisions. There are, however, MULTIPLE ways how to do data lineage. Let's understand these different approaches, the importance of each, best practices to follow, and the connection to business glossary, data quality, and overall data governance.
Our guest for this episode is Torsten Priebe, Chief Technology Officer at Simplity, the company behind the Accurity data governance software suite.

Sep 27, 2022 • 32min
How to Become a Data Driven Organization
Jordan Morrow, author of "Be Data Driven" will tell us how organizations can harness the power of data and become a data driven organization.

Sep 16, 2022 • 29min
Best Free Resources for Data Science
Learning and acquiring the skills required to be a data scientist can be hard and sometimes cost prohibitive. Some courses and some tools are definitely expensive. But you shouldn't let this deter you from achieving your goal of becoming a data scientist or improving your existing skill set. There are some great FREE resources out there for data science.
T. Scott Clendaniel, Lead Artificial Intelligence Solutions Architect at Booz Allen Hamilton will share with us this trove of FREE resources for data science.

Aug 26, 2022 • 27min
Change Management 101
Change management 101 for data projects. In today’s episode we’ll have a fireside chat on: What change management is and why it’s important; The 4 main principles to follow; Different change management frameworks; Best practices to abide by.
With Change Management Professional and Expert, Diana Firican.

Aug 19, 2022 • 28min
How to Grow a Data Culture
Discussing about those best practices on creating data communities and growing a data culture. Our guest today is Christopher Wagner, Principal Data Insights & Analytics Solution Architect @ KratosBI and creator of the Data Gods.

Aug 12, 2022 • 30min
Making Data Governance Fun & Interesting
Tiankai Feng is a Data Governance Professional, Musician & LinkedIn Creator. He's combining his artistic talents with his passion for data. In this episode he will tell us how data governance can be made more fun and approachable, share tips and tips on how to make it meaningful to its stakeholders, and tell us about his journey from digital analytics into data governance.

Aug 5, 2022 • 37min
Fundamentals of Data Engineering
Joe Reis, CEO of Ternary Data and Matthew Housley, CTO of Ternary Data are joining us on this insightful episode to talk about the Fundamentals of Data Engineering.