It's About Data

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

Lena Hall joins us to discuss the promise and peril of coding with AI agents. This episode was recorded at Data Day Texas 2026.#artificialintelligence #aicoding #aiagents

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

Paige Roberts (industry analyst, consultant, writer) joins us for a discussion at Data Day Texas 2026.#artificialintelligence #humanconnection #aiethics

"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

Jean-Georges Perrin, a Data and AI leader at Actian with roots as an entrepreneur and consultant for companies like PayPal and Expedia. He talks about how AI reshapes the data conversation. He contrasts technical data contracts with human business context. He covers data products, provenance, and the Bitol/ODCS standards to make data AI-ready.

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

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.

Russell Spitzer joins us at Data Day Texas 2026 to discuss his work on the Apache Iceberg project.#dataanalytics #datamanagement #opensource

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