It's About Data

It's About Data

By Matthew Housley and Tony BaerTechnology
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It's About Data episodes

  • The Carrot and Stick of Data Governance

    Tim Gasper, cohost of Catalog and Cocktails, joins us to discuss the current drivers of data governance for structured and unstructured data. Also on the menu: is the SaaSpocalypse real?

    Link to Catalog and Cocktails

    19 min
  • AI Data Governance (with Mike Ferguson)

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    Mike Ferguson (CEO Intelligent Business Strategies) joins us to discuss data governance in the AI era. Where past data governance initiatives aimed to achieve compliance, he argues that companies view AI data governance as a commercial strength.Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription.


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    20 min
  • Preparing Data for AI (with Mike Ferguson)

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    Mike Ferguson (CEO Intelligent Business Strategies) joins us to discuss an increasingly urgent question: what do you have to do to make data AI-ready?


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    20 min
  • Data Centric AI (with Dave McComb)

    Dave McComb, CEO of Semantic Arts, joins us to discuss AI code overload, the software wasteland and data centric AI architecture.

    Dave's book, Software Wasteland.

    The New York Times article we discuss.

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    19 min
  • Context Engineering and Data Products (Justin Borgman, CEO of Starburst)

    Matt's book Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription.https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/Your subscriptions support this podcast.We welcome Justin Borgman, cofounder and CEO of Starburst, back to the show to discuss data and context. Justin argues that context engineering is a human in the loop process.

    18 min
  • The State of Enterprise AI (Rob Strechay—VentureBeat)

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    Rob Strechay (Lead Analyst, VentureBeat) joins us to discuss the state of enterprise AI. Is the term context graph useful? What role will open weight models play in the enterprise? How are enterprises managing AI costs?

    21 min
  • The Year of The Graph

    Are we finally going to experience the year of the graph database? According to Arthur Bigeard, (founder gdotv.com) graph databases are having a moment driven by gen AI and graph on relational tools. We also talk about the evolution of data development, graph visualization, ontologies, and socialization of graph technology.


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    21 min
  • Nvidia/Hugging Face

    We're joined by Miriah Peterson and Matt Sharp to discuss Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face.


    Coverage from The Information



    Domesticating AI, Matt and Miriah's podcast with Chris Brousseau.



    Hugging Face: huggingface.co


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    28 min

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