The Joe Reis Show
Episodes
Aaron Neiderhiser & Coco Zuloaga - Fixing Medical Data from First Principles
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Medical data is a mess. Aaron Neiderhiser and Coco Zuloaga from Tuva Health are here (at my house) to answer why this data is insanely complex, and wh...
5 Minute Friday - Start Playing Offense
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In my travels and virtual conversations with data teams and practitioners around the world, the same thing keep popping up - data teams feel misunders...
David Foster - Generative Deep Learning, Writing a Best-Selling Book, and more
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Foster just published the 2nd edition of his amazing book, Generative Deep Learning (O'Reilly 2023). We chat about a lot - running a consult...
If Not Now, When?
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The massive attention on AI means the data industry has a shot at finally succeeding with the things we've been struggling with for decades - &quo...
Kevin Hu - How the Data Landscape Evolves Alongside LLMs
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever Kevin and I get together, we "nerd snipe" each other. This conversation is no different, and it's a wide-ranging conversation a...
5 Minute Friday - Data NIMBYism and Gatekeeping w/ Matt Housley
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Housley hangs out at my house and we chat about Data NIMBYism and gatekeeping. What is that? Listen and find out.
Gordon Wong - Building Trust, Leading and Unblocking Your Data Team
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gordon Wong has led data teams of all sizes, across many well-known companies. I consider him a Yoda in the data field, and this is a glimpse into the...
5 Minute Friday - The Dev and Data Divide
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I had the opportunity to give two talks to two very different groups. Earlier in the week I spoke with a group of senior and above software ...
Vin Vashishta - From Data to Profit, Writing a Book, and more
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vin and I chat about the challenges of writing books, how companies can mature with data science, why data scientists need to learn strategy, and much...
5 Minute Friday - Lots of Tools, But Short on Basic Data Skills
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We live in the golden age of data tools, yet we still lack a grasp on the basics of working with data itself - data literacy, modeling, solving proble...
Scott Taylor - Being a Storyteller, Speaker, Creator, and Influencer in the Data Space
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Taylor (aka the Data Whisperer) is an OG in data content, speaking, and storytelling. He's been keynoting data events since the 1990s and ke...
5 Minute Friday - The Politics of Data
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While on a hike today with a friend, we were engrossed in a chat about something that is often overlooked by technical practitioners - the politics of...
Kai Zenner - The Evolution, Challenges, and Potential of the EU AI Act
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kai Zenner has been working on the EI AI Act for a while, and we chat about his perspective on its evolution, challenges, and potential. Along the way...
Ryan Boyd - Small Databases are Motherducking Awesome!
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Boyd and I chat about the evolution and future of databases, the pendulum between single-server and distributed computing, DuckDB and Motherduck,...
5 Minute Friday - Is Kimball Still Relevant?
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is Kimball still relevant? Or should we just throw columnar storage and unlimited compute to solve our analytical needs? Because I like to live on th...
Joshua Bowles - A Wide Ranging Chat on ML and AI
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Bowles is a linguist and data scientist turned software engineer. This is a wide-ranging chat between two old-school data scientists/ML practit...
Benny Benford - Elevating Data to a Profession
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Benny and I chat about whether data is a profession (in the traditional sense), moving from CDO at a large company to solo consulting, building an aud...
Data Modeling - What If We Just Burn It All Down?
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine two extremes. On one end, data modeling is done perfectly and harmoniously across the data lifecycle. On the other end, data modeling is ignor...
Ranjith Raghunath - Modeling and Improving The Customer Experience
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ranjith Raghunath is a customer experience (CX) wizard, and we chat about why CX is important, modeling the customer journey process, the impact of AI...
Peter Hanssens - Building Awesome Data Communities in Australia and Beyond!
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Hanssens is the founder of DataEngBytes, the forward-thinking conference on all things data engineering. In this chat, we talk about what to exp...
Maya Mikhailov - Cutting Through the BS of AI, and Making it Useful in Business and Life
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's no secret that AI is useful, but it's super hard to cut through the BS. Maya Mikhailov and I chat about the very confusing ML/AI landsca...
5 Minute Friday - "I Have People Skills!"
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I'm starting to see more and more discussions about soft skills and people skills. In this episode, I talk about why tech skills are table stakes,...
Tristan Handy - Balancing Competing Tensions and Handling Complexity
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tristan Handy and I chat about balancing competing tensions, both personally and leading dbt Labs. We also discuss the power of organizational behavio...
5 Minute Friday - We Get the Community We Deserve
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a whirlwind of conferences with the two "big players in the data space," I share some thoughts on how we can improve the conferences t...
Solomon Kahn - The Keys to a Good Data Team, Why Embedded Analytics Suck, and More
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Solomon Kahn has led data teams at startups and big companies. We talk about the advantages of being a data person in a big company, what makes a good...
Kris Jenkins - Programming as Art, Finding Your Niche, and MANY Wonderful Tangents...
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever Kris and I chat, there's an agenda, which is totally useless. Every single time we've talked, the conversation goes into different (I...
Colleen Fotsch - From Athlete to Analyst
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Colleen Fotsch is one of the highest performing (and kindest/nicest) people I know. She's a former NCAA swimmer at UC Berkley, where she was a two-tim...
5 Minute Friday - Data Modeling is Dead. Long Live Data Modeling!
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I've spoken earlier about why I think data modeling is on life support, and if not dead, definitely a zombie. In this rant, I explore how we got h...
Veronika Durgin - Learning and Adapting in a Fast Changing World
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Veronika Durgin joins me to chat about learning and adapting in a fast-changing world, handling vendors, and much more. Veronika's LinkedIn: http...
Paul Blankley & Ryan Janssen (Zenlytic) - How LLMs will Change Data and Analytics
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Blankley and Ryan Janssen are the co-founders of Zenlytic. They started a BI company with an LLM-first approach (back before LLM's were insan...
Karl "Ivo" Sokolov - Innovating in Europe, Moving from Services to Product, Western and Eastern Europe, and More
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Karl "Ivo" Sokolov and I are good friends, and we chat about how he views innovation in Europe, regulations, Western and Eastern Europe, mov...
5 Minute Friday - WTF is a "Model"?
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The word "model" is used a lot by data professionals. There are dbt models, machine learning models, relational models, and conceptual, logi...
George Park - Automation, Change Management, and More
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
George Park is a Czechia-based data engineer. We chat about automation, change management and culture, data modeling (Data Vault in particular), and m...
Murielle Popa-Fabre - The AI Regulatory Gold (or Rule?) Rush
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There's a rush from many countries to regulate AI. Murielle Popa-Fabre is an NLP and ML expert currently working for the Council of Europe, buildi...
Rebecca Taylor - Navigating Large Companies to Build ML
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Taylor has a ton of experience with ML, having worked as lead, and senior ML engineer, and holds a PhD in Bayesian Inference. We chat about ma...
5 Minute Friday - Kids and Living Alongside AI
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today was pretty cool. My son just finished 6th grade, so proud parent moment. Last week, I spoke to his class about AI. It was a very fun experience ...
John Kutay - Change Data Capture Deep Dive, Among Other Things
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Kutay and I chat about podcasting and being influencers, a deep dive into change data capture (CDC), Zero ETL, data sharing, Data Mesh, being a v...
5 Minute Friday - The Software and Data Divide Needs to End
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In most companies, there's a division between software and data. This needs to end. How to get there? ----------------------- If you like this sh...
John Giles - The Power of Using Data Model Patterns
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Giles is a legend in the data modeling world, having authored "Nimble Elephant" and "The Elephant in the Fridge," and written...
Brian Greene - How Software Engineering Influences Data Engineering, Fostering Strong Team Dynamics for a Startup, and More
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Greene and I chat about how software and data engineering interact, the team dynamics of a startup, and much more. Brian is a no-BS straight sho...
5 Minute Friday - How to Learn In a Rapidly Changing World
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A question I'm asked several times a week is how to learn in a rapidly changing world. To me, this boils down to identifying your true north and maste...
Aaron Wilkerson - Why Data Leaders Struggle
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Wilkerson and I chat about data strategy and leadership, business value and alignment, and the eternal question in our industry - why do data le...
5 Minute Friday - Be Selfish With Your Time
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I go through the reasons why I put a stop to most meetings going forward. I urge you to figure out how you can better control your ti...
Jon Cooke - The Data Product Mindset
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Data products are a very popular topic these days. The challenge is we need new thinking and approaches that differ from how we've worked with dat...
5 Minute Friday - IT and "The Business"
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I recap the Joe Reis + dbt roadshow in Denver (thanks to everyone who showed up) and discuss the divide between IT and "The Business." -----...
John O'Gorman - Everything You Wanted to Know about Semantics
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John O'Gorman and I discussed his career as a very early data OG, how he might have created one of the first analytical stores, the fundamentals o...
Sarah Floris - The Dutch Engineer
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Floris (aka The Dutch Engineer) is prolific with creating content aimed at DataOps and data engineering. In this wide ranging chat, we cover con...
5 Minute Friday - My Thoughts on the US and the Europe
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I've been spending some time in Europe, and most recently returned from Germany the other day. There are definitely some differences between the U...
Katharine Jarmul - Practical Data Privacy
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Katharine Jarmul (Principal data scientist at Thoughtworks and author of Practical Data Privacy (O’Reilly, 2023)) and I chat about all things data p...
5 Minute Friday - Is the Economic Downturn Good for the Data Industry?
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The economic downturn is affecting the tech and data industry in a major way. Lots of layoffs, consolidation, and pain. But is this also a good thing ...
Neelesh Salian - Career Growth as an Engineer
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Neelesh Salian joins the show to discuss the rise of data engineering, where the data landscape is heading, and career growth as an engineer. Neelesh ...
5 Minute Friday - My Opinions on How Universities Should Teach Data
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I teach data at the University of Utah, and I’m also on the board of advisors for my department. What curriculum and approach do I advise universiti...
Ken Jee - Making Awesome Content and Becoming More Productive with AI
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Jee joins the show to chat about how he makes awesome content, podcasting and being authentic, jiu jitsu, maximizing your time, and adapting to AI...
5 Minute Friday - Working Alongside the Machines
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT was the iPhone moment for AI, and things are moving insanely quickly. What do generative AI models mean for us, especially children, who are a...
Ryan Dolley - Moving Beyond Dashboards & the Evolution of BI
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Dolley and I chat about why BI needs to evolve, moving beyond dashboards, the impact of generative AI on analytics, SuperDataBros, and more. #da...
5 Minute Friday - Is Data Modeling on Life Support?
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is data modeling on life support? I posed this question to LinkedIn earlier this week. It got a fair number of replies, some supportive and others say...
Shane Gibson - Making Data Modeling Accessible
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shane Gibson joins the show to discuss how to make data modeling more accessible, why the world's moved past traditional data modeling, enabling d...
Dave Langer - Excel is Awesome! Teaching Data to the Masses
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Langer teaches data literacy with the world's most popular data tool - Excel. We chat about why Excel is awesome, ways to teach data to the m...
Zach Wilson - REAL talk on being a data engineer, entrepreneurship, ADHD, and much more
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Wilson is one of my favorite people, and when we chat, it's total honesty and great vibes. In this episode, we discuss his transition from a ...
Chris Tabb - Data Monetization and Business Value
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Tabb (LEIT Data) and I hang out at my house and chat about data monetization and business value. What the heck are those things? Good ques...
Intro episode
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The tech and data industry needs more candor. The point of this podcast is for me (and my guests) to rant about their opinions on the tech and data in...