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It's About Data
by 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
Episodes
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AI Data Governance (with Mike Ferguson)
It's About Data is a sponsor of Data AI Weekend, Oct 10th-11th, 2026 in Austin, TX. Use the discount code ITSABOUTDATA to register. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1984522656688/?discount=ITSABOUTDATA Mike Ferguson (CEO Intelligent Business Strategies) joins us to discuss data governance in the AI...
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Preparing Data for AI (with Mike Ferguson)
Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast. Mike Ferguson (CEO Intelligent Business Strategies) joins us to...
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Data Centric AI (with Dave McComb)
Dave McComb, CEO of Semantic Arts, joins us to discuss AI code overload, the software wasteland and data centric AI architecture. Dave's book, Software Wasteland. The New York Times article we discuss. It's About Data is a sponsor of Data AI Weekend, Oct 10th-11th, 2026 in Austin, TX. Use the...
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Agents Eating The Semantic Layer (with Paul Blankley, CTO of Zenlytic)
Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription to The O'Reilly Learning Platform. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast. Paul Blankley, CTO and Cofounder of Zenlytic, joins us to discuss agents and semantic layers. Paul's talk at AI Council.
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Context Engineering and Data Products (Justin Borgman, CEO of Starburst)
Matt's book Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription.https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/Your subscriptions support this podcast.We welcome Justin Borgman, cofounder and CEO of…
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The State of Enterprise AI (Rob Strechay—VentureBeat)
Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription to The O'Reilly Learning Platform. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast. Rob Strechay (Lead Analyst, VentureBeat) joins us to discuss the state of enterprise AI. Is the term context graph...
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The Year of The Graph
Are we finally going to experience the year of the graph database? According to Arthur Bigeard, (founder gdotv.com) graph databases are having a moment driven by gen AI and graph on relational tools. We also talk about the evolution of data development, graph visualization, ontologies, and...
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Nvidia/Hugging Face
We're joined by Miriah Peterson and Matt Sharp to discuss Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face. Coverage from The Information Domesticating AI, Matt and Miriah's podcast with Chris Brousseau. Hugging Face: huggingface.co Matt Sharp's book LLMs in Production is available through the O'Reilly...
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AWS Acquires DuckLabs
This is a breaking news episode responding to the announcement that Amazon has signed an agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the developer of the DuckDB analytics database. The announcement from DuckLabs: https://ducklabs.com/ducklabs-to-join-aws Joe Reis and Matt Housley interviewing Jordan Tigani...
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Data Security at Source (with Vipin Samar)
Vipin Samar (SVP Database Security at Oracle ) joins us to discuss a database centric approach to securing and enabling agentic AI.
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Business Intelligence with LLMs (guest Ryan Dolley)
Ryan Dolley joins the show to discuss his work on an upcoming book. This episode was recorded at DataTune 2026 (https://datatuneconf.com/).#businessintelligence #largelanguagemodels
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The Rapidly Evolving Job Market (with Stephen Messer)
Stephen Messer (cofounder of Collective[i]) joins us to discuss an AI-driven talent shortage, the future of education, non-generative AI and the business prospects of foundation model developers.This episode is a continuation of our conversation in episode...
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How Agents Remake the Internet (with Stephen Messer)
Stephen Messer joins us to argue that we're making a significant cognitive error when we view AI as a shiny new feature to augment existing software and user experiences.
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Humanizing AI Strategy (Tiankai Feng, Thoughtworks)
Tiankai Feng (Director of Data and AI Strategy, Thoughtworks) joins us to discuss two of his recent books on the human side of data and AI.
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Managing the Meaning of Data (Dipti Borkar—Microsoft)
This is a continuation of our conversation with Dipti Borkar from episode 81. We discuss Microsoft Fabric IQ as a tool for managing meaning in data, the problem of data interop, and the rapidly evolving role of data engineers.Episode 81:https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/K7ACFfYNq4b
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Harnessing Unstructured Data Part II (with Kevin Petrie and Merv Adrian)
This is a continuation of our discussion in episode 82. Kevin explains that AI agents are now a "fox in charge of the hen house," but this actually portends great things in the longstanding quest for data quality.Harnessing Unstructured Data for AI Innovation (BARC...
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Harnessing Unstructured Data for AI Innovation (with Kevin Petrie and Merv Adrian)
Kevin Petrie and Merv Adrian (BARC) join us to discuss a recent study:"Harnessing Unstructured Data for AI Innovation: Problems, Practices, and Principles for Success"This episode is part of a two part series. In the first part, we discuss the findings of the study.The study is available...
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Open Data and the Data Problems That Matter Now (Dipti Borkar—Microsoft)
Dipti Borkar joins us to discuss how Microsoft is addressing the growing importance of open data through Fabric. We also talk about solving for agentic analytics support, and the evolution of data roles and responsibilities.
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Moving Up the Data Stack (with Andy Pernsteiner—VAST Data)
In episode 80, Andy Pernsteiner (field CTO VAST Data) joins us to discuss how VAST has evolved from a storage layer to application backend services, data management and AI infrastructure.The VAST Cosmos Community:https://community.vastdata.com/
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Databricks Summit 2026
Tony reports from Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026. Lakehouse/RT, LTAP, Genie One, Omnigent, Unity AI Gateway, and more.
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What's New in Apache Spark?
Lisa Cao (Databricks) joins us to discuss major new features in Apache Spark 4.1, and the continuing evolution of the platform to meet new challenges and serve an expanding user base.
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Data Products That Matter (Florian Douetteau—Dataiku)
We interview Florian Douetteau, CEO and cofounder of Dataiku, about why data is the fuel for AI and how automation can solve the problem of "Shadow Data Products."
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Database Development in The Era of Vibe Coding (with Nikita Shamgunov—Databricks)
Nikita Shamgunov (Databricks) argues that all stateful systems in the future will need to support forking and version control to allow agents to make mistakes. Also on the agenda: wrangling spaghetti data, managing schema drift, and how the Lakebase architecture can outperform dedicated hardware....
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Snowflake Summit 26 (with Juan Sequeda)
Juan Sequeda joins Tony to go over the latest announcements and their broader implications for the industry. CoCo, CoWork, Horizon Context, data sharing, context wars, and more.#artificialintelligence #aiagents
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Spanner, Hybrid Cloud, and Data Sovereignty (Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Google)
Sailesh Krishnamurthy joins us to discuss Google Cloud Spanner Omni, an on-prem option for Google's famous ultra-scalable transactional database. We discuss the engineering challenges of moving to customer hardware, and the broad problem of data sovereignty.
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The Origins of Databricks Lakebase (with Nikita Shamgunov)
Nikita joins us to talk about an idea that he couldn't let go: separating compute and storage in an OLTP database. He cofounded Neon to pursue this technology, which is now the engine behind Lakebase.#database #dataanalytics #agenticai
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Your Data Needs Metadata (with Suresh Srinivas)
Suresh Srinivas (CEO Collate getcollate.io) joins us to discuss his journey from big data to metadata.
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Collapsing the Modern Data Stack for AI (with Amit Sharma)
Much digital ink has been spilt on the death of the modern data stack. Amit Sharma (CEO CData Software ) joins us to discuss a vision for collapsing the modern data stack to better support AI applications.
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Data Makes the World Go Round (with Fern Halper)
Dr. Fern Halper joins us to discuss her recently published book.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394390663
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Agents Are the New Face of SAP (Sapphire 2026)
Tony returns from SAP Sapphire 2026 to report on "the most consequential Sapphire of Christian Klein's reign."
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Data Governance in the Wild (with Winfried Etzel)
Winfried Etzel joins us to discuss the hard, practical problems of data governance, made more complicated by AI as data consumer and generator. This episode was recorded at Data Day Texas 2026. https://winfriedadalbertetzel.substack.com/
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IBM Think 2026
Tony records from Boston to bring us the latest updates from @IBM Think 2026.#artificialintelligence #bigblue
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Database Autonomy (Miran Badzak, @IBM)
We're releasing this continuation of Ep 53 with Miran Badzak to coincide with IBM Think 2026. What does it mean for a database to be autonomous? What is the future for DBAs? What is the outlook for text-to-SQL?The other half of this...
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The Agentic AI Foundation (Interview with Angie Jones and Jim Zemlin)
We chat with Angie Jones (VP Developer Experience, @AgenticAI-Foundation ) and Jim Zemlin (CEO of @LinuxfoundationOrg ) at MCP Dev Summit about what's next for agentic AI and the foundation.#agenticai #mcp
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GCP Next 2026 (with Sanjeev Mohan)
Tony and Sanjeev record from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. We discuss the integrated stack from hardware to agents, cloud interconnect data collaboration and TPUs.#cloudcomputing #artificialintelligence
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The Human Layer of Data (Guests Jenna Jordan and Thais Cooke)
We're joined by guests Thais Cooke and Jenna Jordan to discuss the themes of their respective talks at Data Day Texas 2026: human connection, library science, provenance and community.#artificialintelligence #libraryscience #dataanalytics
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Combining Two Approaches to AI (with Yitzhak Kesselman, Microsoft)
Yitzhak Kesselman (Corporate Vice President @Microsoft ) joins us to discuss Microsoft Fabric IQ and the combination of two approaches to AI: traditional "signals" machine learning and LLM based reasoning.#dataanalytics #artificialintelligence #machinelearning
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MCP Dev Summit Recap with Andrew Brust
MCP comes to the big city! Andrew Brust joins us to report on MCP Dev Summit in New York City. How can MCP go from MVP to the enterprise? Are enterprises ready for MCP?https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-north-america/Kierra Dotson's...
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Data Modeling, GTA 6 and the State of Data Engineering (with Joe Reis)
Joe Reis joins the show to talk about his upcoming data modeling book, GTA 6, and AI's impact on data engineering.Joe's Substack on data modeling:https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/Fundamentals of Data...
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Agentic Coding in the Trenches (with Lena Hall)
Lena Hall joins us to discuss the promise and peril of coding with AI agents. This episode was recorded at Data Day Texas 2026.#artificialintelligence #aicoding #aiagents
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AI, Library Science and Reading (with Jessica Talisman)
Jessica Talisman joins us for another episode in our one year anniversary series to discuss her recently published essay on declining literacy skills in the United States.https://jessicatalisman.substack.com/p/were-losing-the-ability-to-readWe discuss connections with AI, library science, writing...
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AI, Human Connection, Guard Rails and Ethics (with Paige Roberts)
Paige Roberts (industry analyst, consultant, writer) joins us for a discussion at Data Day Texas 2026.#artificialintelligence #humanconnection #aiethics
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Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies and Context (with Jessica Talisman)
"Saying context graph is like saying wet water." Jessica Talisman joins us to discuss the outlook on knowledge in the midst of the AI boom. This episode is part of our first anniversary series—Jessica was one of our early guests in episode 19....
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AI-ready Data
Jean-Georges Perrin ( @Actian ) joins us to discuss AI-ready data. Also in the mix: data products, data contracts, Bitol, and the human context that we're still working to capture. This episode was recorded at Data Day Texas 2026.actian.combito.iohttps://datadaytexas.com/#dataanalytics...
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The Pedantic Layer vs. The Semantic Layer
Juan Sequeda (ServiceNow) was one of our first guest and joins us for this special 1st anniversary episode. He imparts lessons learned in years of building ontologies.Catalog and Cocktails, Juan's podcast with Tim...
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AI Powered Autonomous Databases
Miran Badzak (Executive Director, Databases @IBM ) joins us to roadmap the future for AI-driven database autonomy and discuss some major announcements for IBM Db2.
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The Past, Present and Future of Apache Iceberg
Russell Spitzer joins us at Data Day Texas 2026 to discuss his work on the Apache Iceberg project.#dataanalytics #datamanagement #opensource
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AI Agents: Hype vs. Reality
Andrew Brust (CEO of bluebadgeinsights.com) joins us to discuss the hype and excitement around AI agents. This episode continues the conversation from episode 50.Episode 50:https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/ebTJzJGTv1b#aiagents #aihype #dataanalytics
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Ontologies, Semantics, AI and the Microsoft Data Ecosystem
"It brings AI to Fabric and Fabric to AI." Andrew Brust (Blue Badge Insights) is the rare polymath who combines hardcore technical chops with industry analytics prowess. He brings his experience to this episode to discuss how Microsoft Fabric IQ helps AI to be an intelligent consumer of business...
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AI and the Publishing Business
We chat with Aaron Black ( @oreilly ) about the state of tech publishing. Do we still need books when we have AI? What do physical books have to do with vinyl records? This episode was recorded at Data Day Texas 2026.#artificialintelligence #techindustry #publishing
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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
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