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Careful is as careful does! An old cliche but a good one, whose wisdom strikes at the heart of the ongoing data quality renaissance. In the old days, data quality initiatives were one-off projects of cleansing addresses, or fixing misplaced surnames. But on day 1 after the project, entropy slowly creeped in again as false data overwrote the good stuff. For today's savvy practitioners, there are many effective ways of fixing data quality in much more durable and efficient ways. Find out how on this episode of DM Radio as Host @eric_kavanagh interviews several experts, including Rohit Choudhary of AccelData; Kyle Kirwan of Bigeye; and Marie Hense of Toluna.

So much more than a database, the modern data platform delivers a range of functionality that enables better experiences for customers, partners and corporate employees. Whether for customer data, third party data or other use cases, modern data platforms enable organizations to be more aware, responsive and accountable. How can your company take advantage?

Check out this episode of DM Radio to find out! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview Chris Jones of Amperity and Saket Saurabh of Nexla.

The data analytics industry once relied almost exclusively on the brute-force power of Extract-Transform-Load technologies to move the data in place. Then came ELT, which enabled more context to be preserved, and also expedited matters nicely. Data Virtualization has also made a name for itself, and remains in force. But what of the modern data pipeline?

Check out this episode of #DMRadio to learn more, as Host @eric_kavanagh interviews Industry Analyst Philip Russom, along with Tomas Kratky of MANTA and Sean Martin of Cambridge Analytics.

If you haven't looked into data orchestration to streamline your data analysis, listen up. Joining Eric Kavanagh in today's episode are esteemed guests here to discuss a new spin on data orchestration. "The whole world is up for grabs right now with respect to data!" notes Houseware Co-Founder Divyansh Saini, whose technology gives business users direct access to data-driven metrics in Snowflake. And when they say metrics, they're referring to the actual, live data of the business, thus (finally) empowering business people to quickly and easily cobble together meaningful views of what's really happening. Check out this episode of #DMRadio to learn more about it with Saini and two special guests: Chris Sachs, Co-Founder of Swim, whose company is reinventing the entire data supply chain, opening the door to actual real-time in ways never before seen in this industry; and Taylor McGrath, VP Data Labs at Rivery.io, whose company is simplifying data orchestration for business users across the board!

We all know that data drives the information economy, but the efficiency of that engine makes all the difference. That is why DataOps came to be. Savvy practitioners realized that taking a quality manufacturing approach to data management could yield wonders for agility, awareness, and growth.

Find out more on this episode of #DMRadio as Eric Kavanagh interviews Yves Mulkers of 7wData and Christopher Bergh of DataKitchen, a pioneer of DataOps.

The rules for data integration have certainly changed! Long the domain of batch-processed ETL (Extract-Transform-Load), today's innovators are now moving to ELT; and many companies are choosing to stream data via Kafka and similar engines. What's a data professional to do?

Check out this episode of DM Radio to find out! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview Robin Tandon of Denodo, Michael Nixion of Snaplogic, and a special guest.

There's never a wrong time for real-time! Historically, the challenge around real-time analytics was mostly the cost, but times have changed. A whole host of new solutions have recently arrived, with others coming down the pike.

Check out this episode of #DMRadio to learn more! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview several expert guests, including Analytics veteran Greg Michaelson, formerly of DataRobot, along with Fadi Azhari of Star Rocks and Damian Black formerly of SQLStream. Topics discussed will include analytic databases, MPP architecture, the power of indices, and how to leverage vectorization for the optimal query engine.

Could there be a hotter topic than Data Mesh these days? Some say it's still largely theoretical, but the promise of data mesh does make sense: Give discrete groups within an organization dominion over their own data sets, which would be housed within a broader data platform that enables self-service development. A key aspect of the vision is to build data products that are designed and managed by focused departmental teams. Ideally, computational power (and cost) would be carved out according to business value. Sound intriguing?

Check out this episode of DM Radio to learn more! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview legendary Analyst Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies, Bin Fan of Alluxio and Adrian Estala of Starburst.

Managing data has never been more fun! At least, for those doing it well! Some companies are still doing things the old-fashioned ways, but increasingly, innovators are leveraging an array of technologies to move past the crawl phase, and start walking, even running. And for the leaders? They're flying at-scale in the clouds!

Find out more by checking out this episode of DM Radio! Host @eric_kavanagh and Co-Host Danielle Oberdier will interview "Data Whisperer" Scott Taylor, along with Peggy Tsai, Big ID; and Nadine Francis, Toronto Star.

From data warehousing to data lakes, and now with so-called Data Lakehouses, we're seeing an ever greater appreciation for the importance of architecture. The success of Snowflake proved that data warehousing is a live and well; but that's not to say that data lakes aren't viable. The key is to find a balance of both worlds, thus enabling the rapid analysis afforded by warehousing, and the strategic agility via explorative ad hoc queries that data lakes provide.

Register for this episode of DM Radio to learn from several experts, including Raj K of General Dynamics Information technology, and Wen Phan of Ahana.