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#93 The Most Misunderstood AI Statistic of the Year: Lessons from Tech Expo on Hype, Failure, and Innovation
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn our final episode of 2025, we sit down with Tim Van Erum to unpack what really stood out at Tech Expo Amsterdam.Together we revisit t...
#92 AI in the Newsroom: Building GenAI tools for De Standaard, Nieuwsblad, Telegraaf, NRC & more
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe go inside Mediahuis to see how a small GenAI team is transforming newsroom workflows without losing editorial judgment. From RAG sear...
#91 How Kim Smets, VP Data & AI at Telenet, Scales Enterprise AI with Strategy, People, and Purpose
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode of Data Topics, Ben speaks with Kim Smets, VP Data & AI at Telenet, about his journey from early machine learning wo...
#90 How To Make AI Deliver Business Impact: Gaelle Helsmoortel on Turning Strategy Into Tangible Results
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, Gaelle Helsmoortel joins us to discuss how to make AI truly deliver business impact, not just proof of concept.With ov...
#89 SQLBits Unfiltered: dbt in Fabric, MLOps in Action & Copilot in Question
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we're joined by Sam Debruyn and Dorian Van den Heede who reflect on their talks at SQL Bits 2025 and dive into the...
#88 “Data Shapes AI, and AI Shapes Data,” Emilie Nenquin on VRT’s Digital Transformation
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we explore how public media can build scalable, transparent, and mission-driven data infrastructure - with Emilie Nenqu...
#87 How to Successfully Integrate AI into Your Business, with Tim Leers (Global Generative & Agentic AI Lead)
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhat happens when AI hype collides with enterprise reality? Tim Leers, Global Generative & Agentic AI Lead at Dataroots, pulls back ...
#86 What’s Next for Kubernetes? KubeCon 2025 Recap with Nick Schouten
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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#85 From CDO to author: Jackie Janssen on the evolution of AI and implications for business and society
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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#84 Let’s Get Meta: Why the Metadata You Ignore Might Be Costing You - with Special Guest Corentin
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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#83 Who’s Minding the Metadata? Why Data Quality Matters in GenAI (Quality Time With Paolo)
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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#82 AI Cracked a Decades-Old Science Problem & Europe’s Push for Digital Sovereignty, The Secret Behind MCP, and The Cloud Hack That Slashes Costs By 62%.
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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#81 AI Code Assistants: The Good, The Bad & The Overhyped, plus Python’s UV Glow-Up & Postman’s Existential Crisis
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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#80 AI Agents Run Wild, DeepSeek Breaks Records, Polars Cloud Expands, and Perplexity Reinvents Search
20 Feb 2025
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#79 The $6 AI Model? France’s $85B Bet, DeepSeek's Censorship & The Python Upgrades You Need
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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#78 The AI Act Lands, Meta Pauses, OpenAI Complains & DeepSeek Rises
06 Feb 2025
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#77 DeepSeek R1: The ‘Open’ AI That’s Shaking Up OpenAI - Plus OpenAI’s Operator, Stargate, ByteDance, & more
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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#76 AI at what cost? Environmental toll, Trump vs AI regulation, creative impact, & poisoned text for AI scrapers.
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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#75 Developer Productivity in 2025: AI Replaces Engineers, Biden’s AI Chip Regulations, UV’s Killer Feature, and Doom in a PDF
16 Jan 2025
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#74 Hello 2025! OpenAI’s O3, Deep Seek V3, Bolt.new and Doom Goes Artsy
09 Jan 2025
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#73 LLM Hunger Games: The Ultimate Showdown - Rootsconf recap (Part 3)
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#72 Mastering Communication in the Workplace – Rootsconf Recap (Part 2)
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#71 Navigating GenAI: How Organizations Must Adapt to Paradigm Shifts – Rootsconf Recap (part 1)
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#70 What's Next for AI? A Recap of 2024 and Predictions for 2025
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#69 From Engineer to CEO: Alex Gallego on Building Red Panda
21 Nov 2024
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#68 GenAI meets Minecraft, OpenAI’s O1 Leak, Strava’s AI Moves, HTMX vs. React & Octoverse Trends
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#67 The AI Race: ChatGPT's New Web Search, Meta’s Llama AI Scaling Efforts & Python 3.13's Upgrades
07 Nov 2024
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#66 From Will Smith to Meta's MovieGen: How AI Video Got Real. Plus Claude 3.5’s “Computer Use” & Open Source Tools
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWelcome to Datatopics Unplugged, where the tech world’s buzz meets laid-back banter. In each episode, we dive into the latest in AI, d...
#65 The Art of Data Storytelling: A Deep Dive with Angelica Lo Duca
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#64 Python WTF moments, Rust rants & Quantum flops
17 Oct 2024
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#63 What’s Next for Open Source? Astral’s business model, WordPress, Deno 2.0 & One Year of DataTopics!
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#62 The End of Pandas, Rise of Ibis: AI, Function Calling, & Python’s New Tools
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#61 AI is Officially Smarter Than Humans: First Look at OpenAI O1 'Strawberry'
19 Sep 2024
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#60 AI and the Paris 2024 Olympics: From Tech to Yusuf Dikec Memes
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#59 Did AI Accurately Predict the Euro 2024 Winners? (Part 2)
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#58 Maximizing Productivity: Bookmarklets, Q Command-Line, RouteLLM, and DuckDB Extensions
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#57 Can the Music Industry Win the Battle Against AI?
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#56 What Skills Do You Need to Become an AI Engineer? & Tech Updates: Claude 3.5, Safe Superintelligence Inc. & more
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#55 Can AI Predict Euro 2024 Winners?
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#54 Is Apple Intelligence...Intelligent? & More: $10K "ChatGPT" Error, Adobe's AI Policy & Open-Source Insights
13 Jun 2024
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#53 Can AI Replace Human Creativity? & Latest Tech Updates (Meta, Klarna GenAI, Apple-OpenAI Partnership & More)
06 Jun 2024
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#52 Can AI-Generated Voices Fool Us? Insights from 'De Mol' TV Show
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#51 Is Data Science a Lonely Profession?
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#50 Where Will GPT-4o Take Us? Exploring AI's Future & Latest Updates (Claude 3, Stack Overflow & OpenAI deal and more)
15 May 2024
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#49 How Will the EU AI Act Affect the Future of AI?
08 May 2024
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#48 How Can We Define DevRel in the Tech World? Tech Insights with Mehdi Ouazza
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#47 MLFlow, Llama 3 Unleashed, and the OpenTofu vs. Terraform Drama
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#46 Debunking Devon, Exploring RAG Frameworks, and Tech for a Better World
17 Apr 2024
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#45 Tech Check: Amazon's AI, Rust vs. Go vs. C++ and the Intricacies of AI in Coding
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#44 Unpacking Open Source: A Look at GX, Monetization, Ruff's Controversy, the xz Hack & more
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#43 The Privacy Paradox - The Tug of War Between Data Privacy and Safety
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#42 Unraveling the Fabric of Data: Microsoft's Ecosystem and Beyond
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#41 Regulations and Revelations: Rust Safety, ChatGPT Secrets, and Data Contracts
18 Mar 2024
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#40 Code, Comedy, and Creativity: Navigating the Digital Data Tapestry
11 Mar 2024
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#39 Microsoft, Musk, and Extremely Fast Image Gen using SDXL Lightning
04 Mar 2024
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#38 Open Source AI, SQL Dialects, and New Terminals
23 Feb 2024
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#37 Text2Video with Sora and Blazing-Fast Python Packaging
19 Feb 2024
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#36 Altman's Chips, Mojo Gets Fast and TUIs
12 Feb 2024
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#35 Mamba to Challenge the Transformer Architecture?
06 Feb 2024
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#34 Thoughts on Sports, Data & AI
29 Jan 2024
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#33 Everything is Technical Debt
22 Jan 2024
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#32 NY Times sues OpenAI and Rabbit R1s LAM Device
15 Jan 2024
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Insights from RootsConf: AI's Socio-Historical Impact & BI Advancements (pt 2/2)
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text🎙️ Episode Special: Insights from RootsConf – The Data Dialogue Series, Part 2Welcome to part two of our special RootsConf series...
DataTopics: Data Roles & MistralAI
23 Dec 2023
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Insights from RootsConf: Voice Cloning, Data Solutions & Dashboards (pt 1/2)
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text🎙️ Episode Special: Insights from RootsConf – The Data Dialogue SeriesWelcome to a special episode of our podcast, direct from th...
LLM Updates and Sports Illustrated's Authorial Escapades
11 Dec 2023
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An (Almost) Cyber Week Deal of the Century & Data-Driven Basketball
27 Nov 2023
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Data Quality, Contracts and 100 Year Old Hares
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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OSS equals marketing?
06 Nov 2023
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“Typography will be the death of me”
30 Oct 2023
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AI-powered Coca Cola
02 Oct 2023
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Send us a textMicrosoft announces Python for ExcelAnnouncing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.https://techc...
Edge AI
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textDatatopics is a podcast presented by Kevin Missoorten to talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics...
ANI / AGI / ASI
02 Aug 2023
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Send us a textDatatopics is a podcast presented by Kevin Missoorten to talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics...
Data Monetization
11 Jun 2023
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Digital Twins
08 May 2023
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Collaborative Data Ecosystems - Collaborative Intelligence
10 Apr 2023
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Generative AI
01 Mar 2023
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Collaborative Data Ecosystems - The data side
07 Feb 2023
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Datatopics: AI Ethics III
02 Dec 2022
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Send us a textDatatopics is a podcast presented by Kevin Missoorten to talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics...
Datatopics: AI Ethics II
10 Nov 2022
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Datatopics: AI Ethics
28 Oct 2022
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Airbyte: Open-source data pipeline platform
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this podcast we introduce you to the wonders of Airbyte with Frederik de Smedt. Airbyte is an open-source data pipeline platform that...
TdT x Intervals.icu
12 Aug 2022
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Send us a textIn this podcast we introduce you to the wonders of Intervals.icu with its founder, David Tinker. A beloved technology that analyzes your...
Datatopics: The Metaverse
29 Jul 2022
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Pandas & Friends
15 Jul 2022
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Send us a textToday we are joined by Murilo Cunha who talks us through the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Pandas python library and its many alter...
Datatopics: The Data Mesh III
16 Jun 2022
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Send us a textDatatopics is hosted by Kevin Missoorten and typically joined by multiple guests. In a side step from our regular Tour de Tools series, ...
TdT x DuckDB
17 May 2022
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Send us a textWe are joined by Hannes Mühleisen, the co-founder of DuckDB and CEO of DuckDB Labs. DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP databases manageme...
Datatopics: The Data Mesh II
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Datatopics: The Data Mesh I
06 May 2022
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TdT x DataHub
22 Apr 2022
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Send us a textToday we are joined by Swaroop Jagadish, CTO and co-founder of Acryl Data. Acryl Data is the company behind the popular DataHub, the met...
TdT x d3rlpy
08 Apr 2022
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Send us a textToday we are joined by Takuma Seno, PhD student, Machine Learning Engineer at SonyAI and the core developer behind d3rlpy. d3rlpy is an ...
TdT x OpenMetadata
28 Mar 2022
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Send us a textToday we are joined by Suresh Srinivas and Harsha Chintalapani, co-founders of Collate. Collate is the company behind the open-source Op...
Tour de Tools is coming back!
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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