The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: The Unspoken Truths of Data Leadership with Matt Kelliher-Gibson, The Cynical Data

Episode Date: December 9, 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 Data Sack Show. And today we are returning to our monthly installment of the cynical data guy, our special monthly guest, Matt Kelleher-Gibson, who has jaded over decades in corporate data. And he shares that cynicism with us and adds a dash of wit for fun. As always, welcome back to the show, Matt.

Welcome. My time to reign over you all has come again. Okay. Reign on, all of us? Reign on our parade? Yeah, I'm also just going to roll with an iron fist. Yes. The fist of Deva.

Okay, I only have two items for the lightning round, and then we're going to read some funny AI stuff, if that sounds good. I actually do have a question. We'll kind of turn the third one into a lightning round. Perfect. Okay, round one, I'll preface it slightly. There have been a number of posts on LinkedIn

where there's a significant amount of, let's call it sort of armchair quarterbacking, you know, what you would do if you were head of data, right? Or like you take over data in a company. So we're not going to, you know, we're not going to read any because there are so many. I'll read a couple of samples that I pulled. Yeah, I'll just read a couple of samples that I pulled, but we won't mention any names. Okay, so you join a company as a head of data. You've got to schedule meetings with everyone in the C-suite. You've got to ask the IT team for a full list of business applications.

You've got to create a spreadsheet from the top initiatives from each executive, etc. Let me grab another one here. You're often pressured to deliver quickly, sometimes feeling as if you aren't given the proper amount of time to consider data handling your quality. Okay, so let's start there. John, when you see these come in on your LinkedIn feed,

how does it make you feel? Especially since you've been ahead of data. Yeah. Remember, I'm the cynical one. Right. Remember. Yeah. I'm going to try really hard on this one.

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.