Data Unplugged - The podcast

It was highly enjoyable speaking to Thomas Gengler, the Head of Chapter Reporting & BI Solutions, about PHOENIX group - Integrated Healthcare Provider's journey to become more data driven.

I had the pleasure to speak to many data leaders about this topic, and especially about the reasons those initiatives fail. Speaking to Thomas, it was clear, that they developed a strong understanding of how to do it right – even though he was being humble… if you are struggling in your journey to become data driven, you should listen to this episode!

You want to know what we discussed in detail?

- 00:38 - Introducing Thomas.

- 02:04 - Digitalisation and the changes it brought to PHOENIX group – Integrated Healthcare Provider.

- 08:24 - Why did the management team decide to push for digitalisation?

- 12:04 - Benefits of digitalisation at PHOENIX group – Integrated Healthcare Provider.

- 15:58 - Self-service analytics - a myth or a must?

- 18:49 - Challenges of settign up self-service analytics.

- 26:19 - Training the power users.

- 35:16 - Driving the right team mindset that helps it adapt to change.

- 36:53 - "Data for the tiger" book.

- 45:46 - What would Thomas do different today, if he started his data journey from

What makes a good leader in Data? What makes a good leader in general?

In our 17th episode of #dataunplugged, I had the pleasure to discuss Ellen Königs - currently the Head of Engineering at alcemy - journey

What did we discuss? 👇

- 00:34 - Introducing Ellen.

- 01:14 - Starting off in a leadership position.

- 04:54 - Challenges faced as a leader.

- 07:29 - How dopes one transition into a leadership position?

- 11:14 - How to keep your data team motivated?

- 16:49 - Disagreements with top management.

- 18:44 - Conflict resolutions within the team.

- 25:04 - Attracting and retaining talent.

- 33:44 - Advice to aspiring leaders.

In this weeks episode, I had the pleasure to discuss everything data with Kevin Haferkamp, Head of Data Intelligence & Analytics, at Deichmann, at their HQ.

What did we talk about? 👇

- 00:26 - Introducing Kevin.

- 01:23 - How the COVID challenge was tackled.

- 04:08 - Modern stack transformation.

- 10:38 - The state of Deichmann now.

- 14:24 - The biggest achievements to date.

- 16:30 - Data Ops!

- 18:38 - Utilisng data analytics.

- 23:14 - Data Mash.

- 36:05 - How was/is data litracy at Deichmann?

- 38:31 - How to align stakeholders with your data mission?

- 47:06 - Refining the data model.

- 51:00 - How to choose the right data model?

- 54:19 - What does the near future hold for Deichmann and its data platform?

In episode 15 of #dataunplugged, I had the pleasure to discuss Handelsblatt’s journey to build and release a

They kicked off their journey with one thing in mind… streamline and prioritize requests for the data team.

How did they do? More about the episode below 👇

- 01:26 - Introducing Ana.

- 04:36 - What is the request management tool and how did it come about?

- 07:06 - Challenges with developing and implementing the new technology.

- 09:54 - The process that saves stakeholders time - a deep dive.

- 17:11 - How are things automated on the backend?

- 22:35 - Benefits of iPaas.

- 25:45 - Development expectations vs reality.

- 28:07 - What's the plan to get the early adopters.

- 31:15 - What does the future look like?

2 part!!! Data unplugged Episode

In today’s episode of #dataunplugged I had the pleasure to speak to Michael Hein the co-founder of Datatoolbox.

With their help, Handelsblatt, implemented a new process, automating business processes for Data Teams.

In this episode we talk about what Datatoolbox does and what is important when starting off working with data. 

More about the episode 🤘

- 00:34 - Introducing Michael.

- 02:43 - Giving the clients tools to drive their marketing "car".

- 05:24 - 6 steps of data management.

- 10:04 - How to decide which data sources are relevant in a given project.

- 15:49 - What happens once data is received, who does the data analysis part?

- 18:19 - Data activation.

In the next episode, we will deep dive into the request management tool with Ana Moya, Head of Data Science & Analytics at Handelsblatt.

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What do vikings have to do with voice assistants and what is the future of voice assistants?

In the 13th episode of #dataunplugged, I spoke to Lara Ehrenhofer, an NLP specialist.  

We discussed everything from how language developed, to how NLP is being used, GPTs

More about the episode below  

- 00:30 - Introducing Lara.

- 07:40 - Vikings, language and NLP.

- 14:03 - How can an NLP be used.

- 21:30 - What are NLPs and what do they do?

- 29:30 - NLPs and demographic bias.

- 36:42 - Different types of NLPs.

- 39:00 - NLP and language models.

- 47:00 - GTP Hallucinations and fact-checking.

- 50:00 - Voice assistants becoming real-life assistants?

- 54:50 - Challenges.

- 01:03:00 - Voice assistant and the future.

In our 12th episode of #dataunplugged I had the pleasure to

More details on the episode below

- 00:30 - Introducing Alexey and Carfax

- 01:09 - The differences between data products and data as

- 05:20 - Is there a new trend in data?

- 06:57 - When building new data products, where do you

- 11:05 - Challenges Alexey faced when building the data

- 17:15- Trust and quality

- 22:34 - Building something the customer wants

- 34:25 - Benefits of continuing to improve and build out

- 37:35 - Data as a product for Carfax' internal purposes

- 43:10 - In hindsight, would you have done anything

- 45:02 - Difference between building data products for external

- 48:50 - GDPR and selling data

- 58:50 - ChatGPT and selling data

- 01:01:01 - Monetising a data product without selling it

How do you build multiple products for 12 markets across

Let Andre tell you that…

Andre, from ViiV healthcare, joined me on the #dataunplugged

More details about the episode 👇

- 00:19 - Introducing Andre Sharf & ViiV Healthcare

- 01:50 - Andre's rare role

- 09:40 - Aligning tech people with the goal through

- 12:51 - The three biggest challenges that ViiV faces

- 22:49 - How to make sure products meet the needs

- 35:00 - "You can't fail if you learn from it"

- 38:31 - How to turn failures to your advantage and learn

- 45:15 - Getting people to buy into your data vision and

- 52:50 - Advice for companies who are just starting to

In our 10th episode of Data unplugged, we are joined by Dani Solà Lagares, the SVP of Data & Analytics at Clark – a digital insurance broker.

In this episode we have discussed Clarks data journey, their transition from an old school data stack to a scalable modern data stack and how data & analytics

More details about the episode below:

00:30 - Introduction to Dani Sola and Clark

02:02 - Early data days at Clark

07:25 - Upscaling your team

10:15 - GDPR Challenges

13:47 - Migration: people and technology

18:37 - Using a third-party SAAS tool vs building your own

21:49 - first step that needed to be done to move towards operational analytics

24:13 - differences between analytics and operational analytics

28:42 - how operational analytics ideas usually happen and how to productionize them

30:13 - areas in which we are using operational analytics

34:08 - having data consistency across systems

43:46 - building things that deliver short-term value while also thinking long term

In our 9th episode of Data unplugged we had the pleasure to speak to Valentin Umbach from komoot, about Self Service Analytics.

Is self service analytics just a hype that is being pushed by vendors? Is true self service analytics possible? What even is true self service analytics?!

Tune in to find out what Valentin has to say!