Data contracts are all the rage and it’s about shifting responsibility to the left. What does that actually mean? How do you do that? Do we actually need more technology for it? Who needs to be involved? So many honest no-bs questions and who best to answer them than Andrew Jones, inventor of data contracts.

In this episode we will chat with Doris Lee on how data science started from an exclusive, hi-tech branch, how it's become more accessible over time, and what's still missing. We will also go over the data science market and the role of open source.

Experts Juan Sequeda, Dean Allemang, and Bryon Jacob discuss the impact of knowledge graphs on language models' accuracy for question answering on enterprise SQL databases. They highlight the benchmark results showing significant improvement in accuracy and emphasize the importance of investing in knowledge graphs to enhance AI systems.

Data Storytelling is a topic that constantly comes up, but do we really know what it is? And what it isn’t? Who best to have this #honestnobs discussion than Kat Greenbrook, author of the upcoming book The Data Storyteller’s Handbook: How to create business impact using data storytelling.

Data Storytelling is a topic that constantly comes up, but do we really know what it is? And what it isn’t? Who best to have this #honestnobs discussion than Kat Greenbrook, author of the upcoming book The Data Storyteller’s Handbook: How to create business impact using data storytelling.

Mike Dillinger, an expert in linguistic machine translations and knowledge graphs, discusses the importance of knowledge graphs in generative AI, the relationship between language and reasoning in LLMs and knowledge graphs, the use of vector databases to extract meaning from text, the potential use of knowledge graphs in AI processes, and the connection between vector databases and knowledge graphs in retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

Technical folks miss the boat and are boring when they talk about the features of data catalog such as glossaries and data lineage to business people. In this episode Krystin Kim will share how a data catalog should be presented to the business: the ultimate place to share ideas across big companies, a treasure trove of use cases for others to discover and make even better, recipes to make amazing things that returns millions in business value.

Tim Gasper, data stewardship and data product management expert, and Juan Sequeda, data governance and AI specialist, discuss the evolving role of data stewardship and governance. They explore combining roles and rebranding as data enablement, automation of tasks with AI, regulations and accountability, and the importance of data products in the future.

With the hype of Generative AI, how do we keep focused on the goal of delivering the right valuable and business facing analytics and data use-cases with as low friction and maximum agility as possible? Jon Cooke, founder of Dataception has a lot of honest no-bs thoughts to share!

Takeaways from With the hype of Generative AI, how do we keep focused on the goal of delivering the right valuable and business facing analytics and data use-cases with as low friction and maximum agility as possible? Jon Cooke, founder of Dataception has a lot of honest no-bs thoughts to share!