Data Radicals
Stories from the people who use data to see things nobody else can.
Data Radicals
Stories from the people who use data to see things nobody else can.
Data Radicals
Stories from the people who use data to see things nobody else can.
Season 1 Highlights Reel
Episodes
Data Governance 101: All You Need to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Bob Seiner, Jennifer Belissent, Paola Saibene, Michelle Hoiseth, Francesco Marzoni & Wendy Turner-Williams, Data Governance Experts


How Extreme Focus Launched the Modern Data Stack
George Fraser and Taylor Brown, Co-founders, Fivetran


DataOps & The Data Catalog
Michele Goetz, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester


Turning Data Librarians Into Supercomputers
Deb Seys, Senior Director of Learning & Communities, Alation


From Data Strategy to Execution
Steve Pimblett, CDO, The Very Group


Multiple Sources of Truth:
Decentralization and the Data Mesh
Zhamak Dehghani, Creator of the Data Mesh


Truth, Data, and FAIRness
Francesco Marzoni, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Ingka Group


Using Data to Fight for Human Rights
Tarak Shah, Data Scientist, HRDAG


The Data Behind Dating
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Author of Don’t Trust Your Gut


The Beginning of Business Intelligence
Bernard Liautaud, Founder, Business Objects & Managing Partner, Balderton Capital


Knowledge Graphs 101
Kendall Clark, Founder & CEO, Stardog


Radical Data Politics
Wendy Turner-Williams, CDO at Tableau


Data is a Weapon
Stan McChrystal, Retired US Army General


The Data on the Chief of Data
Randy Bean, Founder & CEO, NewVantage Partners


The Death and Rebirth of Data Privacy
Michelle Finneran Dennedy, #1 CPO and CEO of PrivacyCode


Data Quality Is a Risky Business
Kyle Kirwan, Co-Founder and CEO of BigEye


The Science Behind Quitting
Christie Aschwanden, Former Lead Science Writer at FiveThirtyEight


Your Path to CDO Superstardom
Peter Jackson, Co-Founder & Director, Carruthers and Jackson


Super Chickens & the Productivity Pecking Order
Dr. Margaret Heffernan, 5-time CEO and Author of Willful Blindness


Attacking Data Literacy
Cindy Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot


Your Guide to Corporate Controversies
Amir Efrati, Co-Founder and Executive Editor, The Information


Making Big Data an Asset in Medicine
Michelle Hoiseth, CDO, Parexel


How to be a Data Cheerleader
Caroline Carruthers, Co-Author of The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook


The Reign of Specialists is Over
David Epstein, Bestselling Author of Range


Emerging from the Data Dark Ages
Jennifer Belissent, Principal Data Strategist at Snowflake


Forging a Culture of Data Governance
Bob Seiner, President & Principal, KIK Consulting


The Secret to Data Storytelling
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Founder & CEO, Storytelling with Data


Data Governance: It’s the Final Frontier
Paola Saibene, Principal at Teknion Data Solutions


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About The Data Radicals Podcast
Some people can see things that nobody else can. They seem to be able to peer around corners and into the future. These seemingly supernatural powers come from being able to synthesize the data all around us. They approach problems with a curious and rational mind. They think differently and encourage others to embrace data culture.
We call them “data radicals” because they transform themselves and the world around them.
In this podcast, we talk to these data radicals to understand what makes their approach so unique, and how it can be replicated.

About the host:
Satyen Sangani
Co-founder & CEO of Alation
Who wants to empower a curious and rational world? Satyen does. He’s the founder and CEO of Alation, on a mission to fundamentally improve the way data consumers, creators, and stewards find, understand, and trust data.
About the host:
Satyen Sangani
Founder & CEO of Alation
Who wants to empower a curious and rational world? Satyen does. He’s the founder and CEO of Alation, on a mission to fundamentally improve the way data consumers, creators, and stewards find, understand, and trust data.