The Joe Reis Show
Episodes
5 Minute Friday - Most Companies Want to do AI, Most are Barely Doing BI
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I've been saying for years, most companies are barely doing BI, let alone AI. Last week, I posted about this on LinkedIn and it went viral. Here, ...
Rehgan Bleile - AI Governance, Creating Opportunities for Women Speakers at Conferences, and more
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rehgan Bleile joins me to chat about the challenges and importance of AI governance and adoption. We also discuss the lack of representation of women ...
5 Minute Friday - 1:1 or 1:Many?
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most people approach their careers via 1:1 - 1 employee: 1 employer, 1 consultant: 1 client, etc. In this rant, I discuss why you should consider 1:m...
Christian Steinert - Consulting in Unsexy, Niche Industries
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Steinart and I chat about data consulting in unsexy and niche industries (like roofing in Christian's case). We go through starting a co...
5 Minute Friday - Courses and Books
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I've been head's down finishing my upcoming Data Engineering course on Coursera, and working on the new book. In this episode, I chat about th...
Chris Bergh - DataOps Deep Dive
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Bergh joins me to chat about all things DataOps. We also discuss lean, removing waste from data processes and teams, and much more. DataKitchen...
5 Minute Friday - Quality vs Productivity, Peopleware, and What Hasn't Changed
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hanging out in Berlin right now. Re-read Peopleware (originally released in 1987), and it got me thinking about what hasn't changed in tech and da...
Lexi Pasi - The Shapes of ML/AI Problems
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lexi Pasi and I chat about symbolic logic in AI, building and managing data science teams, math, and the shapes of ML/AI problems. Lexi is one of m...
5 Minute Friday - Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I've been told that I "say the quiet parts out loud." It might be calling out "data science" and AI as overhyped, or anything ...
Joseph Machado - Balancing Tools and Fundamentals in Data Engineering
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Machado and I chat about teaching data engineering, trends in data engineering, and the state of data content and influencers. LinkedIn: https...
5 Minute Friday - Data Therapy
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Data can be a rough industry. Data professionals often feel alone and in need of someone to talk to. I've been hosting "data therapy" se...
Paco Nathan - Old School AI Meets New School AI, Early Internet, and Much More
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paco Nathan and I chat about early chatbots, and all things AI, especially since the 1980s. We also riff on how we intersected in the early days of th...
Shachar Meir - The 3 Missing Ingredients of Data
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shachar Meir joins me for a chat about the three missing ingredients in data, going out on your own, the state of the data industry, and much more. L...
5 Minute Friday w/ Matthew Mullins - Two Grump Old Men Screaming at the Sky
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Mullins joins me to chat about a recent "get off my lawn" post along the lines that a lot of things we're trying to reinvent in ...
5 Minute Friday w/ Lindsay Murphy - F*ck Around and Find Out, AI Edition
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsay Murphy joins me to chat about whether companies are ready for AI in their data and analytics workflows. The verdict - listen and find out more...
5 Minute Friday - Mixed Model Arts, aka "The Convergence"
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's not enough to know or peddle one data modeling technique these days. That's like fighting in the UFC knowing only thumb-wrestling. The wo...
The Finnish Data Mafia - What's Up With Data In Finland?
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's up with Finland and data? I think Finland might have among the strongest contingencies of data practitioners in the world. Pound for pound,...
5 Minute Friday - "Success"
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Just wrapped up a course with Sol Rashidi on transitioning your career from practitioner to leader. The notion of "success" kept recurring, ...
Nick Freund - Closing a Startup
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This wasn't the interview I expected to do. I thought I'd interview Nick Freund about his startup, Workstream. Between the time we scheduled o...
5 Minute Friday - WTF is a "Data Team"?
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I've had plenty of discussions over the last couple of weeks about data teams - what are they, and how do I measure their success? I dive into a d...
Doug Needham - Architecture Deep Dive, The Hard Work of GenAI, and more
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Needham is an OG DBA and data architect who built DataOps workflows back in Desert Storm (!) and has managed to stay very current with data to to...
5 Minute Friday - Don't Be A D*ck
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some things happened over the last day that I need to call out. Women and other underrepresented groups need to be treated better in tech and data. Wh...
Juha Korpela - The Power of Conceptual Data Modeling
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Juha Korpela is a world-renowned expert in conceptual data modeling. He joins me to discuss the power of conceptual data modeling, why the data modeli...
5 Minute Friday - History Matters
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk about why history matters for technology professionals. When you understand the history of technology, techniques, and approac...
5 Minute Friday - Career Progression Advice
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On a panel this week, we discussed the topic of career progressions. It got me thinking about the various ways people navigate their careers. Here's m...
Yulia Pavlova - AI and Disinformation/Misinformation in the Media
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yulia Pavlova (Director of Technical Innovation at Thomson Reuters) joins me to chat about the role of AI in disinformation/misinformation in the medi...
5 Minute Friday - Is Data Modeling a Waste of Time?
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is data modeling a waste of time? I meet a number of people who say it is. In this episode, I dissect some of the arguments against data modeling, and...
Safiyy Momen - The Good and Bad of the Modern Data Stack, Controlling Cloud Costs, and More
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Safiyy Momen and I chat about the good and bad of the Modern Data Stack, controlling cloud costs, boring engineering, and much more. LinkedIn: http...
Gordon Wong - Why Most Data Teams Aren't That Valuable
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gordon Wong and I chat about why most data teams aren't that valuable, and ways data teams can deliver more value.
5 Minute Friday - It's Fast Enough, or Why Programming Language Wars are Dumb
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Just got off the plane from Spain, and I'm quite jet lagged. Nonetheless, here's your Friday rant. In this episode, I chat about an experienc...
Roman Yampolskiy - AI Safety & The Dangers of General Super Intelligence
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher who's deeply concerned with the dangers of General Super Intelligence. We chat about why he doesn'...
5 Minute Friday - My Book Writing Process
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I'm sitting in the Amsterdam Airport (Schipol) and wrote some of my book on the flight over to Europe. In this episode, I'll talk briefly abou...
The Changelog (Jarod Santo and Adam Stacoviak) - Reverse Podcast
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jarod Santo and Adam Stacoviak from The Changelog join me for 1.5 hours of free-flowing chats about planned obscelescene, old school vs new school con...
5 Minute Friday - Getting Buy-In
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's Practical Data Modeling group discussion, we chatted about how to get buy-in for data modeling. The question was intentionally vague, b...
Vishnu Vasanth - Next Generation Analytical Query Engines
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vishnu Vasanth (e6Data) and I chat about what's next for analytical query engines, shifting left, the Indian tech scene, and much more. Vishnu i...
Kent Graziano - The Data(Ops) Warrior
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's the interview you think you're going to have, then there's the interview you get. This is one of those, in the best way possible. ...
5 Minute Friday - Data Oceans
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes I feel like the data world is stuck in a world of tabular data (rows and columns). This has been the data world for decades. Let's think...
Keith Belanger - The Art of Data Modeling
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Belanger is an OG data modeling practitioner, having been in the game for decades. We chat about a wide range of data modeling topics. What&#...
5 Minute Friday - Your Mileage WILL Vary With Analytical Data Modeling
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This morning, the Practical Data Modeling Community held its first group discussion (to be posted very soon). People from all sorts of organizations (...
Kishore Aradhya - Teaching Tech and Data in a FAST Moving World
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kishore Aradhya and I both teach, and we agree this is a very difficult landscape to determine what and how to teach. Against the backdrop of generati...
Toby Mao - SQLMesh, Simplifying Data Transformations, and more
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Toby Mao started his data tooling company, SQLMesh, in 2022, when investing in data tools was unfashionable. Yet, he's managed to get traction with SQ...
Matt Housley - Fads in Data, Data and ML Engineering, Tech Hubs, and more
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Housley hangs out at my house, and we have a random chat about all sorts of stuff - fads in data, data and ML engineering, tech hubs, and more. I...
5 Minute Friday - The Inverse Relationship of Talking About Value vs Adding Value
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's an inverse relationship between the value you add and how much you need to tell people about it. If you're adding value, you'll kn...
Angel Narciso - Live From LEAP Riyadh, Saudi Arabia!
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Angel Narciso and I hung out at LEAP Riyadh, alongside 215K attendees (wtf?). We chat about all sorts of stuff in the data world, including some blunt...
5 Minute Friday - How I Write and Why You Should Write
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I often get questions about how I write and advice on how one might go about becoming a "writer." In this episode, I talk a bit about my wri...
Jess Haberman - How to Negotiate a Book Deal, How AI Changes Publishing, and More
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jess Haberman and I chat about how to negotiate a book deal. She's been in publishing for ages and knows her stuff! Also, I wish I had this episo...
5 Minute Friday - Learning To See
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Had a great chat with Keith Belanger yesterday (podcast dropping soon) about how conceptual data modeling fell by the wayside. All too often, people s...
Sadie St. Lawrence - Mind and Machines, Building Communities, Optimizing Time, Focus, and Social Capital
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sadie St. Lawrence chat about all sorts of stuff - mind and machines, community building, optimizing time, focus, and social capital, and much more. ...
5 Minute Friday - “Good Enough” Data Models
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is it better to make a perfect or good enough data model? It depends…
Christian Bourdeau - The Data Hiring Landscape, and What to Learn for a Data Career
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Bourdeau and I chat about all things data careers - getting hired, getting fired, and finding your gig. We also chat about 75 Hard, lifting ...
Zach Zeus - Trust Architecture, ESG, and More
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Zeus and I chat about trust architecture and how it can work to improve ESG impacts in supply chain. This is an incredibly important topic with m...
5 Minute Friday - Types of Debt
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I'm chilling in Verbier, Switzerland at Skiers in Data (SKID). In this episode, I chat about the various types of debt - technical, data, and orga...
Annie Nelson - How to Become a Data Analyst
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Nelson and I chat about her path to data analytics, writing her new book, "How to Become a Data Analyst", bad career advice, rock clim...
Christophe Blefari - Why Teaching Data Engineering is Hard
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christophe Blefari and I chat about why teaching data engineering is so damn hard, how generative AI will change technology and data education, and mo...
5 Minute Friday - Gordon Wong and I are Dropped Into a Failed Data Project...
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you're dropped into the middle of a failed data project - no data team, no documentation, and other horrific things - and have to figure o...
Alex Freberg, aka Alex The Analyst - Playing the Long Game with Content
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Freberg, aka Alex The Analyst, chats with me about playing the long game with content, empathizing with his audience, how he grew a massive YouTu...
Wendy Turner-Williams - The Association.ai, Unleashing Generative AI, and more
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Turner-Williams joins me to chat about her new project and communty, The Association.ai, unleashing generative AI in organizations, starting and...
5 Minute Friday - Everything Ends...Moving on From the Modern Data Stack
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My voice is sort of working, and I chat about Tristan Handy's article that raised quite a ruckus this week, "Is the "Modern Data Stack&q...
Randy Bean - Why Generative AI is Making Companies More Data-Oriented
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Bean and I discuss why generative AI is making companies more data-oriented, the latest Wave Stone Data and AI Leadership Executive Survey, his ...
Steve Hoberman - Data Modeling's Past, Present, and Future.
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I consider Steve Hoberman to be one of the original data modelers, having practiced and taught data modeling since the 1990s. He also runs the venerab...
Andrew Meister - Removing "Clunk" and Waste From Workflows
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Meister and I chat about removing wasted notions and bad workflows, aka "clunk."
5 Minute Friday - Data Day Texas, Practical Data Modeling Updates, and More
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's rant is a random grab bag of stuff - my thoughts on Data Day Texas, updates to Practical Data Modeling, and more.
Roy Hasson - Career Progressions in Data & Tech, Open Table Formats, and more
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roy Hasson and I chat about career progressions in data and technology, open table formats (Iceberg), and more.
5 Minute Friday - Outputs vs Outcomes
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are your outputs generating the right outcomes? I'm in Austin for Data Day Texas, and I reflect on this topic via a conversation I had last night ...
Ari Kaplan - Data Intelligence, Evangelism, and More
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Kaplan (Head of Evangelism at Databricks) joins me to chat about all things data intelligence, data lakehouses, the role of evangelism in tech com...
5 Minute Friday - How I Define Data Modeling (today)
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I chat about my working (and evolving) definition of data modeling. In short, we need to move beyond a human-centric view of data modeling, as most da...
Jordan Morrow - The OG of Data Literacy
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Morrow and I hung out at my house and chatted about all things data literacy, the great outdoors, and more. Enjoy!
5 Minute Friday - Data Engineering in 2024. What I'm Seeing.
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What am I seeing in data engineering in 2024? Listen and find out.
Steve Nouri - Building a Global Data Community
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Nouri has a massive following on LinkedIn, travels the world speaking at conferences and advising companies, and most recently created a communi...
5 Minute Friday - Practical Data Modeling
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I often get some questions - What happened to data modeling? Where do I learn data modeling? Where the heck is your new book? Well, at least some of ...
5 Minute Friday - My Thoughts on New Years Predictions and Resolutions
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time of year - lots of predictions and resolutions. I rant about my thoughts on New Years predictions and resolutions, stuff I'm sto...
Will Gaviria Rojas - Using AI to Bring Structure to Unstructured Data
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will Gaviria Rojas (co-founder of CoactiveAI) and I sit in a hotel bar and chat about the amazing world of unstructured data and AI. We chat about sea...
5 Minute Friday - The Internet of Sh*t
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when AI can generate content about whatever - or whoever - whether it's true or not? Welcome to 2023 and beyond. I think the Interne...
5 Minute Friday - AI Underpants Gnomes - C-Level Edition
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just wrapped up a couple of days at the CDO/CAIO Summit in Boston. There are a lot of corporate mandates to "do AI", but also a disconnect i...
Eleanor Thompson - Partnerships Deep Dive
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor Thompson is the most knowledgeable person I know on the topic of vendor partnerships. We dive into the details of what makes a great partnersh...
Ben Rogojan, aka Seattle Data Guy - Origin Stories, Content Creation, and More
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Rogojan, aka Seattle Data Guy, needs no introduction. He's a force of nature in the data engineering content world. We chat about his origin ...
5 Minute Friday - Data LARPs
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You may have heard of Live Action Role Playing (LARP), where people dress up like fantasy characters and sword fight in a park or a Wal Mart parking l...
Matt Harrison - Self Publishing Technical Books, Working With Publishers, Book Piracy, and More
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Harrison is the author of many of the most successful Python books, including Effective Pandas, Effective XGBoost, The Machine Learning Pocket Re...
Karin Wolok - All Things DevRel and More
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Karin Wolok and I chat about all things devrel - what it is, why it matters, the good the bad, and everything in between. We also talk about her time ...
5 Minute Friday - "This Was All Predictable"
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like most of you, I spent last weekend and the earlier part of this week following the OpenAI drama. Plot-twists galore! Every minute seemed like a ne...
5 Minute Friday - Things I Didn't Expect, AI & Data Management, and More
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I recap two events from this week - Matillion's Data Unlocked and the first MLOps Community event in Silicon Valley, hosted at Coactive.ai's o...
Peggy Tsai - Setting CDOs Up For Success, Data Maturity, ESG, and More
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peggy Tsai joins me to chat about a ton of hard topics. We chat about how to set up Chief Data Officers for success (not easy), data maturity, data an...
5 Minute Friday - The Biden AI Executive Order w/ Katharine Jarmul
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Katharine Jarmul and I chat about the Biden AI Executive Order. Enjoy!
Dave McComb - The Unreasonable Power of Semantics and Knowledge Graphs
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dave McComb (CEO of Semantic Arts) is one of the most thoughtful and original people I know in the data space, having pioneered the use of semantics a...
5 Minute Friday - The CEO and C-DATA Stuff Divide
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marketing is a well-established field, yet there is still a massive gulf between CEO and CMO expectations. If CMOs are still trying to get traction wi...
Bill Inmon - History Lessons of the Data Industry
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Inmon and I sat down in his home over a weekend to tell me the history of the data industry. This is a very rare and wide-ranging conversation ab...
5 Minute Friday - Wherever You Go, There You Are
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In my global travels, I've spoken to countless practitioners and leaders in the data field. I discuss two common themes of questions I get - "...
Matt Sharp & Chris Brousseau - Writing "LLMs in Production" (the midway edition)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Sharp and Chris Brousseau join me to chat about writing their new book "LLMs in Production" (Manning). What's it like to write a bo...
5 Minute Friday - AI Carnival Barkers
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m at the Gitex Dubai conference. It’s huge, with 170k in attendance! There’s a lot of hype about AI. I unpack my thoughts on the latest AI hyp...
Johnny Graettinger - A Deep Dive on Streaming and Immutable Logs
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny Graettinger (CTO of Estuary) joins the show to give a clinic on streaming and immutable logs. We cover a lot of ground in this technical deep d...
5 Minute Friday - Building a Global Data Engineering Community
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just wrapped up DEWCon, a great data engineering conference in Bangalore, India. I've participated in most data engineering events around the worl...
Bob Muglia - Why We Need to Move Beyond SQL, the Power of Knowledge Graphs, History Lessons, and much more!
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Muglia joins the show to talk about why we need to move beyond SQL, semantic models, the power of knowledge graphs, the past, present, and future ...
5 Minute Friday - Skills to Pay the Bills
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As I've ranted for a while now, I think our biggest challenge as an industry is the knowledge and skills to do our properly do our jobs. Too often...
Egor Gryaznov - The "Non-Modern Data Stack", and Getting Out of Our Data Bubble
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Egor Gryaznov joins me to chat about the "Non-Modern Data Stack", getting out of our data bubble, and much more. If you like a refreshing co...
5 Minute Friday - My Thoughts on Vendors at Conferences
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vendors are an integral part of conferences (they pay for them, for one). But what happens when vendors face a tough market? Between higher interest r...
Jason Taylor - The Divides in the Data Space, Fighting Dumpster Fires, and More
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Taylor and I chat about low-key data happy hours, getting outside of your comfort zone, finding new ideas, the divides in the data space, fighti...
Michel Tricot - The Impact of AI on the Modern Data Stack
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michel Tricot (CEO of Airbyte) joins me to chat about the impact of AI on the modern data stack, ETL for AI, the challenges of moving from open source...
Juan Sequeda - The Power of Knowledge Graphs and LLMs on Structured Data in the Enterprise
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Juan Sequeda and I chat about knowledge graphs (he's an OG in this area), the potential of LLMs on structured datasets, and much more. This is an ...
Ravit Jain - How to Become a Top Data Influencer and Content Creator
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nowadays, it seems like lots of people want to become data influencers and content creators. Ravit Jain and I chat about how to build an audience, the...
5 Minute Friday - Boring is Back
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boring is back. As technology makes the lives of data engineers easier with respect to solving classical data problems, data engineers can now move to...