

It's About Data
Matthew Housley and Tony Baer
We discuss data, artificial intelligence, and whatever else we feel like talking about. Cohosted by Tony Baer and Matt Housley. Also available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6XFbzM-Vn1ztmEQFDVzYCQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6XFbzM-Vn1ztmEQFDVzYCQ
Episodes
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Oct 28, 2025 • 16min
Oracle AI World 2025
We discuss Oracle AI World 2025. After forty years of database dominance, is Oracle becoming a cloud infrastructure company? How solid is Oracle's backlog? Will OpenAI pay its bills?#oracledatabase #oracle #cloudcomputing

Oct 24, 2025 • 18min
Overhauling Search with AlloyDB AI (Guest: Amit Ganesh)
We're joined by Amit Ganesh (VP of Engineering | AI and Databases | Google) to discuss Target's recent search overhaul powered by AlloyDB AI.A related blog post:https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/retail/from-query-to-cart-inside-targets-search-bar-overhaul-with-alloydb-ai#vectordatabase #postgresql #artificialintelligence

Oct 20, 2025 • 14min
Agents, Context, Customers and Vectorization (Guest: Martin Willcox)
Martin Willcox joins Tony and Matt at Teradata Possible 2025 to discuss the challenges of deploying agents in the field. How do we help agents understand the needs of customers even though they're 'not the sharpest tools in the box'?#agenticai #vectordatabase #largelanguagemodels

Oct 12, 2025 • 26min
The Perpetual AI Capital Machine (Guest: Sanjeev Mohan)
This episode, special guest Sanjeev Mohan joins Tony and Matt to discuss acquisitions, rumors of acquisitions and the perpetual AI capital machine.#artificialintelligence, #openai, Fivetran, DBT, #databricks

Oct 1, 2025 • 22min
The Universal Semantic Layer
We're joined by guest John O'Brien to discuss the universal semantic layer.https://radiant-advisors.kit.com/e293763bb5#dataengineering #dataanalytics #datamodeling

Sep 24, 2025 • 23min
The State of Graph Databases
We discuss Graph Summit NYC and Neo4j. Graph RAG, knowledge graphs, agentic logic, Infinigraph and more.#dataengineering #graphdatabase #agenticai

Sep 17, 2025 • 20min
The Database Migration Bottleneck
Our guest this time is Ryan Gross of Caylent, here to discuss a recently commissioned report on The Database Migration Bottleneck. This was catnip for data nerds like us. Among other things, we discuss why 94% of database migrations miss deadlines and how to use AI to effectively build test driven automation.https://caylent.com/blog/the-database-modernization-bottleneck-survey-report#artificialintelligence #cloudcomputing #dataanalytics

Sep 12, 2025 • 19min
Oracle's Massive Rally
Oracle disclosed a massive backlog as part of its Q1 earnings call.#cloudcomputing #artificialintelligence

Sep 10, 2025 • 21min
InterSystems
In this episode, we discuss an under the radar data company that powers some massive platforms.It's About Data is a media sponsor of http://datadaytexas.com/ 2026. Register with discount code ITSABOUTDATA.#dataanalytics #healthcaredata #venturecapital

Sep 3, 2025 • 26min
Python in Excel (guest: Dave Langer)
Dave Langer joins Tony and Matt to discuss his upcoming book "Python in Excel: step-by-step."#excel #python #dataanalytics #artificialintelligence


