
Monday Morning Data Chat
Every Monday morning, two data nerds - Matt Housley and Joe Reis - have candid and unscripted chats about data.
Latest episodes

Jul 8, 2022 • 1h
The Great Startup Downturn of 2022 w/ Jon "Natty" Natkins - Special Friday Episode
Jon "Natty" Natkins writes a lot about startup equity on his blog, Semistructured. He joins the show to chat about his thoughts on the startup environment in 2022 (and beyond) - The Great Startup Downturn of 2022, down rounds, equity, VC funding, and much more.
Semistructured: https://semistructured.substack.com/
#startups #equity #vc

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Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 1min
Continuously Improving ML-Powered Products w/ Josh Tobin (Gantry) - Special Episode
Josh Tobin from Gantry shares insights on improving ML-powered products, discussing vendor relationships, applying software engineering principles to ML, data observability challenges, and reflections on early business development. The conversation also touches on navigating attention and distractions in management.

Jun 27, 2022 • 1h 5min
#86 - Data Scientists Need to Write Better Code w/ Laszlo Sragner (Hypergolic)
Laszlo Sragner is outspoken in his views on code quality in data science. In this show, we discuss code quality in data science, how to run ML projects, manage tech debt, and much more. Laszlo pulls no punches, so tune in for a very educational discussion.
#datascience #machinelearning #code
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TERNARY DATA
We are Matt and Joe, and we’re "recovering data scientists". Together, we run a data architecture company called Ternary Data. Ternary Data is not your typical data consultancy. Get no-nonsense, no BS data engineering strategy, coaching, and advice. Trusted by great companies, both huge and small.
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Jun 25, 2022 • 1h 1min
Winning with IT in a Very Uncertain Environment w/ Niel Nickolaisen - Special Episode
Niel Nickolaisen is a CIO's CIO. He's led many successful digital transformations and has the battle scars to prove it. Niel's here to chat about the IT talent shortage in the rise of low/no-code tools, operating in an environment of low uncertainty, trusting the data, and much more.
#data #it #technology #digitaltransformation
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TERNARY DATA
We are Matt and Joe, and we’re "recovering data scientists". Together, we run a data architecture company called Ternary Data. Ternary Data is not your typical data consultancy. Get no-nonsense, no BS data engineering strategy, coaching, and advice. Trusted by great companies, both huge and small.
Subscribe to our newsletter, or check out our services at Ternary Data Site - https://ternarydata.com
Please follow our LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ternary-data/
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Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 6min
#85 - Is the Modern Data Stack Dead? w/ Ethan Aaron (Portable)
Lately, a growing number of experts in the data industry are proclaiming the death of the Modern Data Stack. Among the loudest is Ethan Aaron, who runs Portable, a "Post-Modern Data Stack" company focused on building on-demand ETL connectors.
Is the Modern Data Stack dead? Listen and find out.
Portable: https://portable.io/
Ethan Aaron (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanaaron/
#dataengineering #moderndatastack #fundamentalsofdataengineering
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TERNARY DATA
We are Matt and Joe, and we’re "recovering data scientists". Together, we run a data architecture company called Ternary Data. Ternary Data is not your typical data consultancy. Get no-nonsense, no BS data engineering strategy, coaching, and advice. Trusted by great companies, both huge and small.
Subscribe to our newsletter, or check out our services at Ternary Data Site - https://ternarydata.com
Please follow our LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ternary-data/
Subscribe to our YouTube and smash the like button! - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3H60XHMp6BrUzR5eUZDyZg
Thanks for your support!

Jun 13, 2022 • 1h 3min
#84 - High-Performing Data Teams w/ Jesse Anderson
Jesse Anderson joins the show to chat about what makes data teams successful. Jesse is an OG in the data space and always has great thoughts. Enjoy!
#dataengineering #datateams #data
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TERNARY DATA
We are Matt and Joe, and we’re "recovering data scientists". Together, we run a data architecture company called Ternary Data. Ternary Data is not your typical data consultancy. Get no-nonsense, no BS data engineering strategy, coaching, and advice. Trusted by great companies, both huge and small.
Subscribe to our newsletter, or check out our services at Ternary Data Site - https://ternarydata.com
Please follow our LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ternary-data/
Subscribe to our YouTube and smash the like button! - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3H60XHMp6BrUzR5eUZDyZg
Thanks for your support!

Jun 6, 2022 • 1h 1min
#83 - Data Reliability Engineering w/ Egor Gryaznov (CTO @ Bigeye)
Egor Gryaznov joins the show to chat about data reliability engineering, time series forecasting, data observability, and much more.
Bigeye: https://www.bigeye.com/
#bigeye #dataengineering #fundamentalsofdataengineering #datareliability #dataobservability

Jun 3, 2022 • 1h 3min
What's Next for Analytical Databases? w/ Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck) - Special Episode
Jordan Tigani joins the show to chat about what's next for analytical databases.
Jordan needs no introduction in this area, having been a driving force in creating the space of modern analytical databases - he was the founding engineer for BigQuery, led product at Singlestore, working on something new at MotherDuck, among other massive accomplishments.
#dataengineering #data #analytics

May 30, 2022 • 1h 5min
Modern Data Discovery w/ Shinji Kim (SelectStar) - Special Episode from TGIF, Let's Talk Data!
Shinji Kim (CEO @ SelectStar) chats with Matt Housley about modern data discovery, data governance, and much more. This is a special episode from TGIF, Let's Talk Data!, recorded Friday 5/27/2022.
SelectStar: https://www.selectstar.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shinjikim #dataengineering #datacatalog #datagovernance #data

May 24, 2022 • 1h
#82 - Data Contracts & Domain Ownership w/ Ananth Packkildurai
Ananth Packkildurai, a wealth of knowledge and experience in data engineering, discusses data contracts, domain ownership, metadata management, and his new project Schemata. He explores the challenges of modern data stacks, the difference between C'mon schema and a metric layer, and the difficulties of data ingestion and analytics. Ananth also talks about his motivation for writing newsletters and curating them, and touches on topics like the Skimada app and future guests.