Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

Catalog & Cocktails is BACK! Tune in for the SEASON FOUR PREMIERE with hosts Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper! Bridging the gap between business and IT is an age-old problem. IT doesn’t understand the business. The business doesn’t understand IT. Everyone looks at IT and business as if they were separate and point fingers, when they should actually be together. Join Tim, Juan and Vipul P., Global Head of Data Management at WPP where they discuss approaches to bridge the gap between business and IT. Conversation Highlights: [01:10] Today's Drinks [03:26] Two things that typically wouldn't go together, but do really well [05:17] Vip's thoughts on bridging the gap between business and IT [08:19] Empathy, curiosity, and measuring business value [09:58] Empowering teams to ask questions, and thinking about different company cultures [14:18] On defining roadmaps and determining business value [16:37] A culture around data and the interplay between business and IT [20:57] Data stewards and the idea of embedded roles [24:50] An ideal team structure for bridging the gap: data analysts, scientists, and super users [26:33 ] The data mesh and future leaders of tomorrow [28:30] Future leaders in data, and delivering for both IT and business needs [30:10] Empowering data literacy and learning paths [35:24] Incorporating IT and data knowledge in employee onboarding [41:19] The role of technology in bridging the business and IT gap [45:15] Lightning Round [51:02] Takeaways [55:48] Three questions for VIP [01:00:08] Next week: Raoul Pott

Catalog & Cocktails is BACK! Tune in for the SEASON FOUR PREMIERE with hosts Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper! Bridging the gap between business and IT is an age-old problem. IT doesn’t understand the business. The business doesn’t understand IT. Everyone looks at IT and business as if they were separate and point fingers, when they should actually be together. Join Tim, Juan and Vipul P., Global Head of Data Management at WPP where they discuss approaches to bridge the gap between business and IT.

Juan's Trip Takeaways from MIT CDOIQ

Ever wondered how Catalog & Cocktails happens? How does the show go from an idea to a full-blown episode every single week? Karli Burghoff, Producer of Catalog & Cocktails AND data.world Demand Generation Specialist, joins this bonus episode to talk about the processes, pains and prizes of creating a podcast. Oh, and she roasts the hosts multiple times in this episode too, don't miss that.

Join Juan and Tim for the Season Three Finale of Catalog & Cocktails. The hosts discuss the takeaways of the takeaways, best guest moments and valuable advice from some of the guests from the last 20 episodes!

We live in a data first world. Give me more and more data. But what about the meaning of that data? How should the data be modeled so it can be easily understood and consumed by data scientist and analyst? In this episode, Tim, Juan, and Ergest Xheblati, will live discuss why data modeling should be at the core of an enterprise. This episode will also cover: How data modeling is going to change the world moving forward. How to start in data modeling Why are data models such freakin divas?

In this episode, Tim, Juan, and Ergest Xheblati, will live discuss why data modeling should be at the core of an enterprise. This Takeaway episode will feature the summary of the upcoming show.

LIVE from the Snowflake Summit in Vegas. The hosts of Catalog & Cocktails sit down with Peter Kapur from WM to explore how we should be getting true value from metadata, data and analytics.

LIVE from the Snowflake Summit in Vegas. The hosts of Catalog & Cocktails sit down with Peter Kapur from WM to explore how we should be getting true value from metadata, data and analytics. This Takeaway episode will feature the summary of the upcoming show.

So much of the focus of the analytics and vendor community today is on data. We have solutions for data visualization, warehousing, observability, cataloging, transformations, and more. But data is nothing without context. So why does metadata tend to draw the short straw? In this episode, Tim, Juan, and Sanjeev Mohan, former Gartner analyst and principal at SanjMo, explore how metadata acts as a proverbial travel guide for your data and analytics journey. This episode will also cover: Visions of a data catalog, the ordinary and profound Who needs lineage and why In the Magic Quadrant of summer foods, what goes in the leaders quadrant, and what’s in niche?