Episodes
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Thought Leadership: Kent Graziano - Life and Times of The Data Warrior
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
In this Thought Leadership conversation, we will meet with Kent Graziano, founder of The Data Warrior, LLC.
In his lustrous career, Kent had carved out a very interesting niche for himself as a community evangelist in the world of data analytics. We will explore the value that community evangelists bring to the industry as independent thought leaders (and why as a data practitioner, you should consider evangelism, too).
In Kent's particular story, after many years of being an outspoken Oracle evangelist, Kent turned the full force of his attention to Snowflake, thereby becoming something of a public "Oracle Outcast".
We will explore with Kent one of his most-asked questions: "What made you turn so quickly to Snowflake (before they IPO’ed) after 30 years of being a independent community leader with Oracle?"
Join this slide-free, 30-min video call to learn more about Kent and his journey, and how to become a thriving software community evangelist.
ABOUT KENT:
Kent Graziano is a man of many passions.
DATA ANALYTICS //
He is an internationally recognized industry expert in Cloud and Agile Data Warehousing as well an award winning author and speaker in the areas of data modeling, data warehousing, and data architecture. He has over 35 years of experience, including more than two decades designing data warehousing and business intelligence solutions (in multiple industries). He has developed and led many successful software and data warehouse implementation teams, including multiple agile DW/BI teams.
AUTHOR //
Kent has also written dozens of articles and given hundreds of presentations (both nationally and internationally). He co-authored multiple books related to data modeling including "The Data Model Resource Book" (with Bill Inmon and Len Silverston) and "The Business of Data Vault Modeling" (with Dan Linstedt). He was also co-editor of Dan's book "Super Charge Your Data Warehouse", the technical book about Data Vault Modeling. In addition, he is the author of four Kindle format data warehouse and data modeling related books, all available on Amazon.com.
Kent is now working on compiling a foodie photo book with pictures taken during his recent years of travel around the US and the globe while working for Snowflake.
MARTIAL ARTS //
Kent has been practicing and teaching traditional Chang Hun (non-Olympic) Tae Kwon Do for over 40 years (which is actually longer than he's been doing databases and data modeling).
Monday Mar 28, 2022
StreamSets: GDM Tech Matters Marathon 22
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
An End-to-End Platform for Smart Data Pipelines
StreamSets DataOps Platform enables data engineers and ETL developers to build, run, monitor and manage smart data pipelines. Spend your time building and innovating, instead of managing to tool limitations with a single design experience for all patterns (batch, CDC, ETL and streaming), a single pane of glass for management and control, and resilient pipelines that seamlessly handle data drift and reduce breakages by 80%. StreamSets abstracts away the complexity of data engineering, so you can quickly deliver what the business needs through a drag-and-drop experience.
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Thoughtspot: GDM Tech Matters Marathon 22
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Augmented Business Intelligence, Supporting an Alternative to Data Visualizations
With ThoughtSpot, business people can type a simple Google-like search to instantly analyze billions of rows of data, and leverage artificial intelligence to get trusted, relevant insights pushed to them as answers to thousands of questions they might not have thought to ask. ThoughtSpot is simple enough for any business person to use, yet powerful enough to handle even the largest, most complex enterprise data without sacrificing speed, security, or governance.
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Starburst: GDM Tech Matters Marathon 22
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
The Analytics Engine for Data Mesh
Unlock the value of distributed data by making it fast and easy to access, no matter where it lives. Starburst Enterprise, based on open source Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) is the fastest SQL-based MPP query engine. We give your team a common query tool, abstracted from the systems that store your data, that gives them the ability to run analytics on data where it lives. No data movement or copies required.
Monday Mar 28, 2022
DataRobot: GDM Tech Matters Marathon
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Empowering YOU to Leverage Augmented Intelligence
DataRobot was founded in 2012 to democratize access to AI. Today, DataRobot is the AI Cloud leader, delivering a unified platform for all users, all data types, and all environments to accelerate delivery of AI to production for every organization. DataRobot enables organizations to leverage the transformational power of AI by delivering the world’s only AI Cloud platform combined with an AI-native strategic success team to help customers rapidly turn data into value.
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Alation: GDM Tech Matter Marathon 22
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Let AI, Embedded in the Alation Product do the Cumbersome Data Discovery
Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 330 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Cisco, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, Munich Re, NASDAQ, New Balance, Parexel, Pfizer, US Foods, and Vistaprint. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list and is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com.
Monday Mar 28, 2022
SingleStore: GDM Tech Matters Marathon 22
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
The Database for the Data-Intensive Era
SingleStore is a distributed, relational, SQL database management system that features ANSI SQL support and is known for speed in data ingest, transaction processing, and query processing. SingleStore is the ideal all-in-one database for operational analytics and AI/ML-powered applications that requires fast data ingest, high performance queries and elastic scaling with familiar relational SQL. SingleStore is dedicated to helping businesses adapt more quickly, embrace diverse data and accelerate innovations.
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Thought Leadership: 3 Critical Things for Data Engineers to Know in 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Join GDM and the co-founders of Ternary Data, Joe Reis and Matt Housley, as we explore the 3 key things that data engineers need to know in 2022 (and beyond).
We will explore the top technologies that are a must-know, the technical skills that can make or break the job, and concepts/methodologies that are hyper relevant to the data engineers day-to-day.
Grab your coffee and join us for this slide-free discussion that can help new engineers up-level their game and seasoned engineers find renewed inspiration.
ABOUT MATT + JOE:
Matt and Joe fondly consider themselves "recovering data scientists". They are the authors of Fundamentals of Data Engineering, which is being published by O'Reilly Media later this year.
ABOUT TERNARY DATA:
Ternary Data is a data engineering & data architecture consulting firm led by veteran data engineers, data scientists, and college professors. Rest assured that you’re dealing with people who have deep, real-world experience (and the battle scars to prove it).
Ternary Data is not your typical data consultancy. Get no-nonsense, no BS data engineering strategy, coaching, and advice. Trusted by great companies, both huge and small.
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Leadership Perspectives: Borut Olenik - Zavarovalnica (Insurance) Triglav
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
These days, data & analytics leaders hold key importance for guiding their organizations toward digital transformation and evolution. They are the lighthouses that help direct their organizations toward the incredible value that is unlocked through the leverage of properly-run data and analytic programs.
But, they are also are humans, and just like many of us, they must work through conflict, company politics, time zone changes and other challenges.
Please join us for our new monthly Leadership Perspective Series where we talk to some of the greatest data & analytics leaders across the globe. These quick, slide-free discussions will highlight the leader's perspectives, challenges and triumphs. What are they working on? How do they keep their heads above water? What creative approaches they are using to bring a data-driven culture to the forefront of their organizations?
This month we will feature Borut Olenik, Director of Business Intelligence at Zavarovalnica Triglav, a Slovenia-based insurance company. We are honored to have met with Borut in Slovenia last summer. He is a caring leader and outspoken evangelist for proper data analytics practices and methodologies.
Join us as we talk to Borut about his goals for 2022, his team, the tech culture in Slovenia and what he is doing to move data analytics forward, not only at Triglav Insurance, but also in his country.
ABOUT BORUT:
Borut carries a natural optimism and is genuinely excited about technological innovation.
He is driven to help stakeholders make better decisions using information derived from data. For Borut this goes beyond just business decisions, he believes that data can (and should) help inform personal decisions as well.
At Zavarovalnica Triglav, d.d. Borut serves as a director in the Business Intelligence (BI). He is responsible for the development of a world-class business intelligence system.
With his vast knowledge of business intelligence process (data analysis, data modeling, data visualization) and technology (including data warehouse, business intelligence tools, machine learning, etc.) he is happy to help decision makers get the information they need to work more confidently and purposefully.
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Thought Leadership: Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer @ Thoughtspot
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Join GDM and Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer at Thoughtspot, as we dust off our crystal ball and take a peek into the future of data analytics in the coming year. Cindi will share her predictions for what we can expect in our ever-changing, always dynamic world of the modern data cloud.
ABOUT CINDI:
Cindi Howson is the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot and host of The Data Chief podcast. Cindi is an analytics and BI thought leader and expert with a flair for bridging business needs with technology. As Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, she advises top clients on data strategy and best practices to becoming data- driven, influences ThoughtSpot’s product strategy, and is the host of The Data Chief podcast.
Cindi was previously a Gartner research Vice President, as the lead author for the data and analytics maturity model and analytics and BI Magic Quadrant, and a popular keynote speaker. She introduced new research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics and brought both the BI bake offs and innovation panels to Gartner globally.