Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

Metadata, is this a graph problem? w/ Mohammad Syed from Capco

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Metadata management has been a topic for a while now. Lately, the industry is pushing that metadata is a knowledge graph problem. What does metadata in a pre and post graph world look like?


Join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper with special guest Mohammad Syed, Head of Data Architecture & Engineering at Capco to chat about metadata and knowledge graphs.


Key Takeaways:

  • [00:06 - 02:40] Introduction & Cheers
  • [02:43 - 03:55] What's your go-to karaoke song?
  • [03:57 - 05:38] Metadata is a graph problem, yes or no?
  • [05:55 - 08:23] What would we call metadata in a pre-graph world?
  • [08:29 - 13:06] The biggest inflection point that has moved us collectively from a pre-graph world to a post-graph world
  • [13:06 - 15:10] Use cases for metadata in finance
  • [15:14 - 17:43] Different contexts in which you use data,
  • [17:46 - 19:33] Metadata historically as a means of documentation
  • [23:29 - 24:59] How we should be taking advantage of the graph structure
  • [25:01 - 29:18] Applying basic graph techniques and algorithms to identify data use cases
  • [28:11 - 30:30] The process of data governance and data protection
  • [30:33 - 32:47] Outcomes of metadata graphs
  • [33:04 - 35:19] Metadata management
  • [35:26 - 39:59] How to get started with metadata mapping
  • [40:05 - 43:30] Governance can't be living in an ivory tower
  • [43:57 - 49:52] Lightning round
  • [50:01 - 55:56] Takeaways
  • [55:58 - 59:44] Three Questions


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