Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast
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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.
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Aug 9, 2023 • 9min
TAKEAWAYS - Data Sustainability w/ Simone Steel
Have you asked yourself what is the relationship between the exponential growth of data and the environmental and business sustainability goals? Simone Steel, an experienced CDAO, has been asking these questions. This episode is a follow up to her thought provoking presentation at 2023 CDOIQ Conference.
Aug 3, 2023 • 58min
Is Data a First Class Citizen in your Company? w/ Wendy Turner-Williams
Everyone says they want to be a data-driven driven company. To do so, data must be a first class citizen, at the heart of all strategy and reporting to the CEO. Is that really happening at your company? Wendy Turner-Williams will discuss how data is at the center of AI, Ethics, Privacy, Security and more.
Aug 2, 2023 • 10min
TAKEAWAYS - Is Data a First Class Citizen in your Company?
Everyone says they want to be a data-driven driven company. To do so, data must be a first class citizen, at the heart of all strategy and reporting to the CEO. Is that really happening at your company? Wendy Turner-Williams will discuss how data is at the center of AI, Ethics, Privacy, Security and more.
Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 3min
Ranting about (lack of) business value by data teams w/ Ethan Aaron
How is your data team driving revenue and reducing costs? How is the impact of your data team being measured? All of these business value topics and more will be discussed with Ethan Aaron, CEO of Portable.
Jul 27, 2023 • 8min
TAKEAWAYS - Ranting about (lack of) business value by data teams w/ Ethan Aaron
How is your data team driving revenue and reducing costs? How is the impact of your data team being measured? All of these business value topics and more will be discussed with Ethan Aaron, CEO of Portable.
Jul 20, 2023 • 1h 6min
People and Data w/ Tom Redman, The Data Doc
Live from CDOIQ, we will joined by Tom Redman, The Data Doc, to discuss what's broken, why we go in circles, and how we can objectively evaluate the data world. Oh, we will also chat about his upcoming book: People and Data
Jul 19, 2023 • 11min
TAKEAWAYS from People and Data w/ Tom Redman, The Data Doc
Live from CDOIQ, we will joined by Tom Redman, The Data Doc, to discuss what's broken, why we go in circles, and how we can objectively evaluate the data world. Oh, we will also chat about his upcoming book: People and Data
Jul 13, 2023 • 1h 6min
Modeling and Semantics are more important than ever, because of AI with Joe Reis
In this episode, Joe Reis, best-selling author of Fundamentals of Data Engineering explains why data modeling and semantics need to take the center stage for AI to truly succeed.
Jul 13, 2023 • 9min
TAKEAWAYS: Modeling and Semantics are more important than ever, because of AI
In this episode, Joe Reis, best-selling author of Fundamentals of Data Engineering explains why data modeling and semantics need to take the center stage for AI to truly succeed.
Jul 6, 2023 • 19min
Catalogs & Cocktails Live from Snowflake Summit 2023 in Las Vegas
Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda debrief after 4 days on-site at Snowflake Summit 2023 in Las Vegas.
Key Takeaways:
[00:00 - 00:40] Intro, Tim and Juan are at the Snowflake Summit in Las Vegas
[00:43 - 01:27] AI
[01:27 - 04:04] Large language models (LLMs), and associated costs
[04:04 - 04:46] Costs of maintaining data infrastructure for larger models
[04:50 - 06:58] AI and LM use cases for businesses
[07:07 - 09:52] New capabilities added to Snowflake: Snow Park and Snowflake Container Services, and Streamlit
[09:52 - 11:15] Juan predicts that Snowflake will build their own data centers
[11:18 - 12:47] Databricks conference announcements
[13:29 - 19:11] Introducing Ethan Aaron from Portable, and his take on trends with Snowflake
