Episodes

Data therapists are translators that sit between business and technical data leaders. They are great facilitators, they understand tech but they also speak business. What happens in a data therapy session? Who runs it? When d...

The average CDO has 2 years to turn data into business value. The trouble is that most of the time data is fragmented and poorly managed. Can treating data as a product help to change this?Today I learn from two amazing data ...

The average CDO has 2 years to turn data into business value. Today we talk about data products, implicit and explicit knowledge, and the cultural revolution we need to turn data into knowledge at scale. My guests today are J...

What’s the business impact of data observability? Today we continue the conversation with Salma Bakouk , CEO and co-founder of Sifflet . We talk about the time to ship new decision-support products, how to double the capacity...

What’s the business impact of data observability? Today we continue the conversation with Salma Bakouk, CEO and co-founder of Sifflet. Episode page https://www.discoveringdata.com/podcast/episode-043 For Brands Do you want to...

If data means $$$ we want to detect data issues before they turn into costly mistakes. But being aware of issues isn’t enough. We need to know why things break so that we can fix them quickly (emphasis on quickly). Today I le...

If data means money, we want to detect data issues before they turn into costly mistakes. We need to go from firefighting to fire prevention and be able to resolve issues quickly when they occur. Today we dive into data obser...

Clean, structured, and trusted data is the goal of most data engineering teams. But if we want to create business outcomes we can’t stop at the data layer, we need to turn data into knowledge. The trillion dollar question: Ho...

This is part two of turning data into knowledge at scale, and about the arduous job of cleaning, defining, collapsing and expanding information and knowledge in the enterprise. My guest today is Jessica Talisman senior Taxono...

Today we talk about turning data into knowledge at scale, and about the arduous job of cleaning, defining, collapsing and expanding information and knowledge in the enterprise. If we do a good job by the end of this episode y...

Today we talk about turning data into knowledge at scale, and about the arduous job of cleaning, defining, collapsing and expanding information and knowledge in the enterprise. My guest today is Jessica Talisman senior Taxono...

If data and analytics are going to be taken seriously by business executives, we need to talk about value in their language. Today I speak with the Dean of Big Data Bill Schmarzo about the skills, mindsets and mental models w...

If data and analytics are going to be taken seriously by business executives, we need to talk about value in their language. Of course this isn’t enough because once we get our point across we need to create the systems proce...

The promise of data catalogues is to help us find the right information at the right time. This episode is for people that want to understand the organization's critical assets and their relationships and build an enterprise ...

The promise of a data catalog is to help everyone search and find every document and datapoint in the organization. Easier said than done. This episode is for everyone that wants to map all their organization’s critical data ...

Trailblazer is a series of short interviews focused on the person behind the leader and designed to inspire you to lead the data conversation. This series is co-hosted with Debbie Botha and produced in partnership with Women ...

Trailblazer is a series of short interviews designed to inspire you to lead the data conversation. This is a partnership between Discovering Data and Women in AI. Today we learn from Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of Artificial ...

In stressful conflicts, our instinct is to react and push back. “Going with” and not “against” a threat is the essence of the Japanese martial art known as Aikido. Can Aikido help us become more effective leaders? Join me as ...

Mapping and engineering the information flow is the job of enterprise information architects or EIAs. But what is exactly information architecture? What does a day in the shoes of an information architect look like? What can ...

If you are rolling your eyes when you hear “knowledge management”, it’s because we have been doing it wrong. If we want to win in complex, uncertain, and volatile environments we need both sides of our brain, the artistic and...

In digital marketing we get so fixated with conversion rates and exponential growth curves that we often don’t have time to worry about data privacy and data ethics. What are the long term business impacts of unethical use of...

Trailblazer is a series of short interviews designed to inspire more women to lead the data conversation. Today we learn from Lillian Pierson, CEO and Head of Product at Data-Mania. You can follow Lillian on LinkedIn: https:/...

When was the last time you had an important fact to share but nobody seemed to care? This is for you if you want to learn how to communicate insights effectively and make things happen. My guest today is Brent Dykes, a master...

In this special episode, I’m thrilled to introduce the first conversation in our new Discovering Data Leaders series. We’re kicking things off with Debbie Botha, Chief Partnership Officer at Women in AI , a nonprofit active i...