Bridging Innovation and Open Source to the Real World with Paco Nathan

How dirty is your data?: Juan and Tim take on all the challenges of data quality in the enterprise. Commiserate with real life horror stories and learn solutions and best practices as we dive deep on a fundamental aspect of data management.  You can also <a href... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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The Data Governance House of Horrors: Does the very idea of creating and managing new data assets keep you up at night? Do you get goosebumps just thinking about the state of your column headers? Never fear: there’s an effective way to battle your data and metadata demons. Join Tim and ... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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How does data policy impact you?: Successful enterprises understand the importance of data-informed decisions. But what role does data play in government affairs? In episode 8, Juan and Tim are joined by <a href="https://page.data.world/e2t/tc/VWxqGV3JgwlTN59k2GPkVkYyW7bJF9w4... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Data integration from the trenches: Every hero has an origin story. In episode three, data.world CTO and co-founder Bryon Jacob joins Juan and Tim to share how data integration nightmares in a prior role put him on the path to data and metadata enlightenment. by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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What’s the deal with knowledge graphs?: What do companies like Airbnb, Google, and Lyft have in common? They put knowledge graphs at the center of their metadata and data strategy. In episode 6, Tim and Juan talk about knowledge graph technology - how it works, why it works, and why it sh... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Don't boil the ocean. Boil a fishbowl.: Join Juan and Tim for a deeper dive on data catalogs. This episode will look at how catalogs can address the continuum of metadata and data management and give you an achievable starting point on your journey to understanding all your data.<... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Get data governance right for once: We cover a lot of ground in Catalog & Cocktails: from data catalogs to data governance, personas, lineage, policy, knowledge graphs, and more. That’s because data management is a broad discipline with so many people, tools, and methodolo... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Stuck in the middle: how to become an advocate for a data catalog and governance: 60% of organizations will use data catalogs by 2023. This prediction by IDC suggests a large number of companies are still using manual and complex processes to make sense of data. This includes standing up multiple data lakes, disparate database te... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Is it time to hire a data product manager?: Who’s on your data team? In <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1MGhCgpIyKkkDcNvznZJmA?si=IKmB3LR6TyWZfOE3WW1Tvw">Episode 4</a>, we talked about data producers and data consumers. In this episode, we’ll explore how these various persona... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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How does your data team get value from a data catalog?: Last week we chatted about data producers, data consumers and the need for a data product manager; and their pain points. In this episode, we will chat how these pain points should be addressed by a data catalog in order to provide value to ... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Crowdsource your way to data empowerment: The power of the crowd is everywhere these days: we crowdsource products, commercials, and (putting possibly misplaced trust in our fellow humans) the next big snack food flavor. In this episode, Tim and Juan talk about how to apply the best parts o... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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What can we learn from messy insurance data?: The insurance industry thrives on robust, diverse, accurate, and innovative data. In fact, it’s one of the most data rich verticals around, dealing in claims, ratings, coverage, pricing, geographic, and people data and so much more. But let’s be hon... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Should we salute our robot overlords?: Enterprises are looking to ML/AI innovations in data management to accelerate their data strategies and achieve critical business goals. But how much of what we hear about ML/AI is real, and how much is hype? In this episode, Tim and Juan will explo... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Data work is much bigger than a soccer match: Have you ever heard someone call data a "team sport"? The comparison makes sense: you can’t be successful on your own, you need to work well with peers, you run up against tough opposing forces. But data work is so much more. Join Tim and Ju... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Your best data source may be outside your company: When you think about enterprise data, the data associated directly with your company and its customers probably comes to mind. But what about data acquired from open data portals or third-party brokers?  External data is the fastest grow... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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What the pandemic can teach us about data governance: The coronavirus pandemic is also a case study in public data. Everywhere we look we find statistics: number of coronavirus cases, unemployment levels, economic predictions, etc. But this unprecedented access to data also leaves us with lots of quest... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Who’s on your data team?: You don’t have to have the word “data” in your title to be a data person. For example, Juan and Tim don’t, but they are very much part of our data team. In this episode, we will chat about the myriad personas that interact with data, from pr... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Tim and Juan are joined by special guests Dean Allemang, Fabien Gandon, and James Handler to discuss their latest book: <a href="http://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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The future of data management: The data landscape is constantly evolving: Data warehouses, big data, data lakes. How did we get here? Where is it all heading? Step up to the bar, and join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper as they discuss the future of enterprise data management... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Documentation matters: “I love documentation!!” … said no one. But let’s be honest, what’s worse: having no documentation or having bad/outdated documentation? To make the situation even more awkward, documentation seems to often be nothing more than an afterthought for m... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Hear from DJ Patil and other leading thinkers at data.world summit: Get excited. A half day of new ideas, practical guidance, and journeys into the latest innovations in data practices, technology, and leadership, headlined by DJ Patil (former US Chief Data Scientist) and Amy Gershkoff-Bolles (Chief Data Officer, <a... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Data catalog Fight Night: build vs buy: Data catalogs are foundational to a successful enterprise data management strategy. But, should you buy one off the rack or build it yourself using open source tools? In this episode, Tim and Juan will debate  on build vs buy. Juan will... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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A data management chicken and egg: What comes first: the data warehouse or the data catalog? It’s a vexing chicken and egg question that data teams must answer. Do you build a data lake/warehouse first and then catalog the data, or s... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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What's the story with data lineage?: How can you be certain the data you’re working with is trusted, up-to-date and understandable? Data lineage tells you where data originated, how it's used, and what transformations are applied as it flows from data sources and ETL workflows t... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Master data management: hot or not?: Master data management (MDM) sits at the intersection of metadata and data and has a lot in common with data integration, data modeling, and knowledge building use cases. It’s “old school” technology that even today confuses many data leaders. But..... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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95% say exit polls don’t work. 15% say they do.: Since 1848, The Associated Press has been counting and reporting the votes in US elections. But they haven’t always done it the same way. As voter behavior changed over time, AP has continued to evolve their process to provide neutral, third party a... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Data tools: the good, the bad, and the ugly w/ Erik Bernhardsson: New data tools drop daily, but are they worth the hype? Some launch with overinflated expectations, while others solve a problem that doesn’t really exist. On the flip side, there are tools that transform the enterprise and have the potential to cha... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Goodbye 2020, hello 2021: Earlier this year, our podcast began with an ambitious episode titled “The Future of Data Management.” We’ve covered a lot of ground since then, from career paths and culture changes to data governance and data policy. In our final Catalog & Coc... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Knowledge is Power: Knowledge Management meets Data Management: We always talk about managing metadata and data...but what about managing knowledge? It has to be more than keeping a spreadsheet of a business glossary! Join Tim, Juan, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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Time for a data culture makeover: Is your data culture a drag? Turning it around requires you to be bold and take action. Join Tim and Juan as they discuss examples of what you should and shouldn’t do, and how to accelerate the transition to data awesomeness. You'll hear actual exam... by Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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