The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: The Cynical Data Guy’s Origin Story

Episode Date: June 10, 2024

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Welcome to the Data Stack 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 show. We have a very special kind of episode that we're going to try and start doing monthly. And you're going to love the name for this show. It's called The Cynical Data Guy. And it's because we have a special guest who is the cynical

data guy. Matt Kelleher Gibson is joining John and I. So cynical data guy, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited. I can't wait to dig into it. But we do need to give the listeners some context here. So how did cynical dataical Data Guy come about? Well, first of all, John's data consulting practice is called Agreeable Data. So we kind of jokingly call him, you know, the Agreeable Data Guy.

And Matt joined Rudderstack from deep in the bowels of corporate America doing all sorts of data stuff. And you have tons of war stories and tons of scars from trying to do data at very large organizations. And so when we talk about topics, you often have, let's say, a salty view that's been dashed against the rocks of corporate reality. I prefer to think of it as a realistic view, but others seem to disagree. Well, of course, when John and Matt and I chat in the office

about topics or LinkedIn posts that we see, we just enjoyed Matt's hot takes so much that we started jokingly calling him the cynical data guy. And then of course, one day we stopped and said, this has to go on the podcast. So we got to do it. We got to do it. Okay, so here we are. Here's the format. So I'm going to act as the moderator. We have the cynical data guy. We have the agreeable data guy. And I just pulled some LinkedIn posts that I think are interesting topics to discuss. Okay. So, Matt, I'm going to just present some of that. I'm going to read some snippets here. Okay. Some of them I'm going to keep anonymous. Others I won't for obvious reasons. Okay. Are we ready? We're going to try and do three lightning rounds here.

So if I interrupt you and move on, sorry. Not sorry, I guess. Sorry, not sorry. Definitely not sorry. Let's do it. All right. That's a wrap for the prequel. The full-length episode will drop Wednesday morning.

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