

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
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Aug 29, 2025 • 22min
Do We Still Need Data Teams? (with Ollie Hughes)
Ollie Hughes (CEO of Count.co) joins Tony and Matt for episode 20. How can #data teams rise above the noise? How will data roles evolve when basic technical tasks are automated?YouTube link:https://youtu.be/1Rm7jySLkogCheck out Count:count.co#dataanalytics #artificialintelligence

Aug 6, 2025 • 28min
Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents (with Jessica Talisman)
Jessica Talisman joins Tony and Matt to discuss the current limitations of AI systems, and finding solutions in knowledge infrastructure and knowledge engineering.Learn more about Jessica's work:https://ontologypipeline.com/https://jessicatalisman.substack.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmtalisman/#artificialintelligence #knowledgegraphs #ontology

Jul 23, 2025 • 26min
AI, #ai Everywhere (#aws Summit 2025 NYC)
Tony gets a blast of AI related news at AWS Summit 2025 NYC.#modelcontextprotocol #aiagents #vectordatabase

Jul 18, 2025 • 16min
4.2 Trillion
Nvidia just hit a record market capitalization of $4.2 trillion. We interrupt our summer lull to give our hot take#nvidia #generativeai #deeplearning

Jul 9, 2025 • 22min
Oracle Database@AWS
We're joined by guests Mehul Shah and Kambiz Aghili to discuss Oracle Database@AWS. What do broadening multi-cloud partnerships mean for customers and cloud architects?#amazonwebservices #oracle #cloudcomputing #dataengineering

Jul 2, 2025 • 26min
Major Themes of 2025 H1
Tony and Matt follow up the previous episode's review of first half announcements with a discussion of major themes for the year to date. Acquisitions, rebundling the modern data stack, data products, interop and the future of engineers in an #artificialintelligence driven industry.

Jun 25, 2025 • 19min
Data News Recap — H1 2025
Tony and Matt review vendor news from the first half of 2025. In short: agents, agents, agents.#aiagents #enterpriseai #cloudcomputing #datawarehousing

Jun 18, 2025 • 20min
Data + AI Summit 2025
Matt and Tony discuss the 2025 edition of @Databricks' annual shindig in San Francisco.#postgres #iceberg @snowflakeinc #airealismArticles mentioned in the episode:https://www.businessinsider.com/when-ai-automation-replacing-humans-databricks-ceo-ali-ghodsi-2025-6https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2025/05/06/ai-bubble-burst-databricks-ceo-gic-bridge-forum.html

Jun 11, 2025 • 23min
DuckLake (with Ryan Boyd)
Ryan joins Tony and Matt to discuss the recent release of DuckLake, a combined table format and data catalog released by the DuckDB foundation.#datawarehouse #dataanalytics #iceberg #duckdb #podcast

Jun 6, 2025 • 18min
Snowflake Summit 2025
Tony and Matt discuss this year's Snowflake Summit. Agents, Iceberg, Postgres and Snowflake's ongoing battle with old rival Databricks.#snowflake #aiagents #iceberg #postgres #podcast


