The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: The End of Data Silos (and Other Myths) with The Cynical Data Guy

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

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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 Data Stack Show. Today, we are welcoming back one of our favorite recurring guests, who is now referred to as the stone-cold Steve Austin of the data world. The cynical data guy.

Matt, welcome back to the show. Or Steve, I guess I should say. Thanks for having me back. Eckhart Rickert, thank you for that little yes tidbit right there yes we do have to thank thank eckhart for for actually showing us what we knew all along is that you know that the world of data is actually a wrestling ring where people act out elaborate you know elaborate violent scenes. No one actually gets hurt. It's all K-fab.

That's all it really is. Okay, well, actually, Stone Cold Steve Austin of Data, we have a really good one to start out with. One of our good friends, Rogajan, he's been on the show multiple times, just a fun guy and a longtime friend of the show. Man, he had such a great post about false hope. So I'm going to read this

and then I have a question for each of you. So cynical data guy and agreeable data guy. And this is just so good. No one is more of false hope than a data analyst building a dashboard they believe the entire company will look at. It's about laughing. A data engineer who just had someone tell them that entire company will look at. It's about laughing. A data engineer who just had someone tell them that the schema will never change.

A data scientist analyzing a data source they thought was 100% accurate. A data leader planning out how to build the single source for their company. Okay, so here's the question. I hope the listeners are laughing because all of those are just unbelievable. Which one of these is the most, is the, is the highest level of false hope or the highest level of delusion? All right. That's a wrap for the prequel.

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