Freestyle Fridays - Bridge Skills w/ Eevamaija Virtanen
It's Friday and Eevamaija Virtanen and I are hanging out at Data Day Texas in Austin. In this episode, we chat about her upcoming talk, "Bridge Skills."
Jan 24, 2025•27 min
The Joe Reis Show
The official podcast of tech/data nerd and "recovering data scientist" Joe Reis. He provides refreshingly candid thoughts on the world of technology and data. Each week, he broadcasts from somewhere in the world, sometimes ranting solo or with the smartest people in the business.
Episodes
Chip Huyen - AI Engineering, Agents, and More
Chip Huyen joins me to chat about AI Engineering, AI Agents, and much more.
Jan 23, 2025•45 min
Jamie Davidson - Modern Data Modeling
Jamie Davidson (Chief Product Officer at Omni, Former VP of Product at Looker) joins me to chat about "modern" data modeling, going from a startup to Google and back to a startup, and much more. Omni: https://omni.co/
Jan 21, 2025•51 min
Carly Taylor & Ghalib Suleiman - Dealing with Burnout
Burnout is a big topic right now. Carly Taylor and Ghalib Suleiman join me to chat about burnout and ways to deal with it.
Jan 17, 2025•49 min
Sarah Levy - Modern Data Governance for Analytics
Sarah Levy (CEO of Euno ) joins me to chat about modern data governance for analytics. Euno - https://euno.ai/
Jan 16, 2025•53 min
Carsten Bange - Trends in Data, Analytics, and AI
Carsten Bange (Founder & CEO of BARC ) joins me to chat about trends in data, analytics, and AI. BARC website: www.barc.com Carsten on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carsten-bange/ BARC Data Culture Summit: https://barc.com/events/data-culture-summit%20/ BARC DATAfestival: https://barc.com/events/data-festival/...
Jan 14, 2025•53 min
Freestyle Fridays - Old School BI vs AI BI
Will AI chatbots replace old school BI dashboards and reports? Or can they co-exist with one another? Will AI help the often poor adoption by the business of dashboards and reporting? I rant about this and more in this latest episode.
Jan 10, 2025•14 min
Dave Colls and David Tan - Effective Machine Learning/AI Teams
Dave Colls and David Tan join me to chat about building effective machine learning teams, the challenges they face, the 7 deadly wastes in data and ML, writing a book, and much more. Get their book here: https://amzn.to/3DS2OMp
Jan 07, 2025•57 min
Freestyle Fridays - The Year Ahead (Why Data Modeling Matters, AI, Being Human, etc)
It's 2025! We made it! ;) In this podcast, I rant about why data modeling matters more than ever, AI, and why humans will seek out "human" things in 2025 and beyond. ❤️ Your support means a lot. Please like and rate this podcast on your favorite podcast platform. 🤓 My works: 📕Fundamentals of Data Engineering: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/9781098108298/ 🎥 Deeplearning.ai Data Engineering Certificate: https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/data-engineeri...
Jan 03, 2025•22 min
Simba Khadder - Feature Stores, Reinforcement Learning, and More
Simba Khadder (CEO of FeatureForm ) joins me to chat about feature stores, reinforcement learning, surfing, and much more.
Jan 02, 2025•52 min
Gordon Wong - What We're Stoked for in 2025
It's December 31, 2024. Gordon Wong and I wrap up 2024 and chat about what we're excited about in 2025 in data and otherwise. ❤️ If you like my podcasts, please like and rate it on your favorite podcast platform. 🤓 My works: 📕Fundamentals of Data Engineering: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/9781098108298/ 🎥 Deeplearning.ai Data Engineering Certificate: https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/data-engineering 🔥Practical Data Modeling: https://practicaldata...
Jan 01, 2025•28 min
Joe Reis + Matt Housley - End of 2024 Chat, Advice on Consulting, Leaving a Job, AI, and More
Matt Housley and I have a LONG chat about working in consulting, leaving your job, AI, the job market, our thoughts on what's coming in 2025, and much more. ❤️ If you like my podcasts, please like and rate it on your favorite podcast platform. 🤓 My works: 📕Fundamentals of Data Engineering: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/9781098108298/ 🎥 Deeplearning.ai Data Engineering Certificate: https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/data-engineering 🔥Practical Data ...
Dec 27, 2024•1 hr 48 min
Amr Awadallah - Making AI Work in Enterprise, What Makes Humans Unique, and More
The first time I met Amr Awadallah, he struck me as a rare person genuinely curious about the world and how technology and AI impact it. We discuss his early roots as an entrepreneur, the founding of Cloudera and Vectara, the challenges of AI in enterprises, what makes humans unique, and much more.
Dec 26, 2024•49 min
Freestyle Fridays - Is Writing Code Still Relevant for the Youth?
I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a young gentleman upgrading my Google Fiber. While he was originally pursuing a career as a software developer, he and his friends decided against it after seeing the progress of ChatGPT over the last couple of years. As a father of two teenage boys, I often think about the nature of work, including whether writing code will be relevant for future generations. Here, I rant at least part (not all) of what's on my mind. This is a big topic, and you'...
Dec 19, 2024•15 min
Tiankai Feng - Humanizing Data Strategy
Tiankai Feng joins me to chat about the people side of data, aligning on the value of data strategy, and much more.
Dec 17, 2024•46 min
Do You Really Need That New Data Tool, or is a Spreadsheet Good Enough?
This morning, a great article came across my feed that gave me PTSD, asking if Iceberg is the Hadoop of the Modern Data Stack? In this rant, I bring the discussion back to a central question you should ask with any hot technology - do you need it at all? Do you need a tool built for the top 1% of companies at a sufficient data scale? Or is a spreadsheet good enough? Link: https://blog.det.life/apache-iceberg-the-hadoop-of-the-modern-data-stack-c83f63a4ebb9 ❤️ If you like my podcasts, please like...
Dec 16, 2024•5 min
Holden Karau - Fight Health Insurance
Health insurance denials are a big topic in America right now. Holden Karau joins me to talk about using AI to appeal health claim insurance denials. Fight Health Insurance: https://fighthealthinsurance.com/
Dec 16, 2024•37 min
Freestyle Fridays - Building a Personal Brand
I’ve been asked many questions about building a personal brand for the last few weeks. Perhaps it’s the uncertain job market, people wanting to branch out, or something else. I’m unsure what’s in the air right now. In this episode, I share some thoughts on building a personal brand.
Dec 13, 2024•25 min
Hannes Muhleisen - DuckDB Deep Dive, The Challenges of Lakehouses, and More
Hannes Muhleisen is the creator of DuckDB and CEO of DuckDB Labs. We finally got a chance to meet in person at the Forward Data Conference in Paris. We hit it off immediately, and at times, I felt like I was talking with my long lost brother. Hannes is a very cool guy! While at the conference, we recorded a chat about all things DuckDB, the challenges of data lakehouses and open table formats, local-first tech, and much more. 🦆 🐥
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Dave Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger (Estuary) - Data Integration, Running Startups While Raising Kids, and More
Dave and Johnny run Estuary, a data integration company focused on real-time ETL and ELT. We're also friends, so we decided to have a chat. In this episode, we chat about the current state of the data integration space, running a startup while raising kids, and much more. Estuary
Dec 10, 2024•56 min
Gordon Wong - Tech Stacks, Semantic Layers, and More
Regular guest Gordon Wong joins me for a half hour to chat about tech stacks for analytics, semantic layers, and much more. Gordon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordonhwong/
Dec 09, 2024•27 min
Bill Inmon - Data Warehousing Facts and Myths
Bill Inmon is considered the father of the data warehouse. I just got back from spending a couple of days with Bill, and we discussed the history of the data industry and the data warehouse. On my flight back, I realized people could benefit from a short version of our conversation. In this short chat, we discuss what a data warehouse is (and is not), Kimball and Inmon, the origins of the data warehouse, and much more.
Dec 06, 2024•16 min
Valentin Becerra - Engineering for Space, DJing, and More
Valentin Becerra and I chat about DJing, AI, space engineering, and much more.
Dec 06, 2024•54 min
Gwen Shapira - Multi-Tenant Databases Done Right
Multi-tenancy in databases is very difficult to pull off at scale. Gwen Shapira and I chat about multi-tenant databases at Nile (and elsewhere), AI, RAG, and much more.
Dec 04, 2024•52 min
The Negative Net Present Value of Consulting
While at lunch with a friend today, the question came up of whether he should invest his time into content (videos and courses) or consulting. Having run a consultancy (and exiting the consulting game), I quipped that consulting often has a negative net present value. What do I mean? Listen on... Note - I'm trying out a new format where I'll record and post episodes whenever I feel like it (novel idea). Not sure about the cadence yet, so stay tuned. This might mean that non-guest podcasts simply...
Dec 03, 2024•12 min
Ole Olesen-Bagneux - The Meta Grid (sneak peak)
What if the world's metadata were interconnected in a decentralized way? This is part of the vision of Ole Olesen-Bagneux's Meta Grid. We have a chat about what it is, and its implications for the data industry.
Dec 02, 2024•23 min
Freestyle Fridays - The Skills Gap in Data
We've got so many awesome tools and technology, but I often don't think we know how to properly use them. In this episode, I discuss what I think is one of the biggest problems in the data industry - the skills gap.
Nov 29, 2024•24 min
Albert Bellamy - Getting Your Job in Data
Albert and I discuss the do's and don't of finding a job in the data field. Do you do a portfolio project? What's the market like these days? This and more are discussed. Enjoy.
Nov 27, 2024•57 min
Tanya Bragin - Clickhouse, Open Source vs Commercial, and More
Tanya Bragin and I have a wide-ranging chat about the tension of open source and commercial products, Clickhouse, aligning marketing and product, and how she manages her time.
Nov 20, 2024•57 min
Freestyle Fridays - Obscurity is Your Enemy
People often ask me for career advice. In a tough job market where people are sending out thousands of resumes and hearing nothing back, I notice a lot of people have weak networks and are unknown to the companies they're applying to. This results in lots of frustration and disappointment for job seekers. Is there a better way? Yes. People need to know who you are. Obscurity is your enemy. Also, the name of the Friday show changed because I can't seem to keep things to five minutes ;) My works: ...
Nov 15, 2024•21 min
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