It's About Data

It's About Data

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

  • Data Modeling, GTA 6 and the State of Data Engineering (with Joe Reis)

    Joe Reis joins the show to talk about his upcoming data modeling book, GTA 6, and AI's impact on data engineering.Joe's Substack on data modeling:https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/Fundamentals of Data Engineering:https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/9781098108298/#aitools #aicoding #dataengineering

    26 min
  • AI, Library Science and Reading (with Jessica Talisman)

    Jessica Talisman joins us for another episode in our one year anniversary series to discuss her recently published essay on declining literacy skills in the United States.https://jessicatalisman.substack.com/p/were-losing-the-ability-to-readWe discuss connections with AI, library science, writing and knowledge. This conversation is a continuation of episode 56.

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Y6JA2Jbh9Ze2aoI7kvzQE#literacy #artificialintelligence #writing

    20 min
  • Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies and Context (with Jessica Talisman)

    "Saying context graph is like saying wet water." Jessica Talisman joins us to discuss the outlook on knowledge in the midst of the AI boom. This episode is part of our first anniversary series—Jessica was one of our early guests in episode 19.

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ypGZGUtTviieiOHk1NZyk?si=fbee300adc644fa5Jessica's substack:https://jessicatalisman.substack.com/#artificialintelligence #knowledgegraph

    18 min
  • AI-ready Data

    Jean-Georges Perrin ( @Actian  ) joins us to discuss AI-ready data. Also in the mix: data products, data contracts, Bitol, and the human context that we're still working to capture. This episode was recorded at Data Day Texas 2026.actian.combito.iohttps://datadaytexas.com/#dataanalytics #datagovernance #artificialintelligence

    17 min
  • The Pedantic Layer vs. The Semantic Layer

    Juan Sequeda (ServiceNow) was one of our first guest and joins us for this special 1st anniversary episode. He imparts lessons learned in years of building ontologies.Catalog and Cocktails, Juan's podcast with Tim Gasper.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/catalog-cocktails-the-honest-no-bs-data-podcast/id1524652737#artificialintelligence #dataanalytics

    20 min
  • AI Powered Autonomous Databases

    Miran Badzak (Executive Director, Databases  @IBM  ) joins us to roadmap the future for AI-driven database autonomy and discuss some major announcements for IBM Db2.

    18 min
  • AI Agents: Hype vs. Reality

    Andrew Brust (CEO of bluebadgeinsights.com) joins us to discuss the hype and excitement around AI agents. This episode continues the conversation from episode 50.Episode 50:https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/ebTJzJGTv1b#aiagents #aihype #dataanalytics

    17 min

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We discuss data, artificial intelligence, and whatever else we feel like talking about. Cohosted by Tony Baer and Matt Housley. Also available on YouTube: