The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Rewriting the Data Playbook: How AI and Storytelling Are Shaping BI’s Future with Ryan Dolley of GoodData

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

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Welcome to The Datastack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. Welcome back to The Datastack show. We have Ryan Dolly on with us, and we have a ton to talk about. Ryan, thanks for joining us. Yeah, I'm thrilled to be here, guys.

Thanks for having me back. All right. Give us just a brief background. Where did you start your career and then how'd you end up in data? Yeah, sure. So I started my career as a student in playwriting and acting, actually, but I couldn't make any money. And so I transitioned to data about 15 years ago and have been just going full steam at it ever since. I'm the VP of product strategy, a good data, which is an analytics platform. I'm the co-host of the Super Data Brothers show. And I really have spent my career focused on kind of the intersection of data and the humans who, consume it, right? So that's really what drives me. Awesome. Ryan, excited to have you on the show. One of the things that I've been thinking a ton about recently is workflows. It's about how

data, what data people are currently doing in their daily workflows and then like what they will be doing, you know, in the next couple of years as we see AI get more incorporated into those workflows. So I'm pumped about that topic. What are some of the things you want to cover? Yeah, I'm looking to hearing your guys' thoughts on kind of the, you know, the experience what it feels like to work in data right now. I think there's a lot of excitement, but there's also a little bit of fear or trepidition about what do our jobs look like in the future.

And I think it's mostly good. It's exciting. So I'm looking forward to exploring that with you guys. Awesome. Well, let's dig in. Awesome. Let's do it. All right.

That's a wrap for the prequel. The full-length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it. We're going to be. You know, Oh, You know,