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The Data Hotseat

The Data Hotseat

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Join the team at Advancing Analytics to chat all things data & AI! Each week will see a new guest and a new topic in the hotseat, and you'll hear their unfiltered opinions, tips, tricks, and maybe a hot take or two. With a focus on Databricks, The Data Hotseat gives you takeaways from technical insights to data strategy. Whether you're a Data Engineer or Head of Data, you'll get opinionated insights you won't find anywhere else.
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S2 Ep2: All About Data Conferences | Ash Warren

S2 Ep2: All About Data Conferences | Ash Warren

32 min 27 sec
Live from DataMinds Connect! This week, Ash Warren is in the hotseat from one of our favourite data conferences, chatting about the benefits data events offer, from keeping up with the technical landscape, to community and networking.
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S2 Ep1: All About Data Products | Ust Oldfield

S2 Ep1: All About Data Products | Ust Oldfield

40 min 16 sec
What turns data into a product people actually want to use? Ust Oldfield joins The Data Hotseat to talk customer thinking, rapid prototyping, and why building better data products takes more than technical expertise.
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Ep 6: All About Genie App Builder | James Bentley

Ep 6: All About Genie App Builder | James Bentley

34 min 54 sec
In the hotseat this week is James Bentley, Senior AI Consultant and face of the AI videos on our YouTube channel! With host, Paul McComish, they chat about Genie App Builder - how it differs from other app builders, and how, yet again, the conversation turns to data quality and governance.
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Ep 5: All About Genie One & Genie Ontology | Ashley Warren

Ep 5: All About Genie One & Genie Ontology | Ashley Warren

38 min 58 sec
In the hotseat this week is Ashley Warren, here to chat about Genie One and Genie Ontology. This episode dives into Databricks' attempt to stop AI from confidently getting business questions wrong. They explore why context is the missing ingredient in enterprise AI, why governance is suddenly everyone's problem again, and whether analysts should be excited, worried, or both.
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Ep 4: All About Genie ZeroOps | George Dutton

Ep 4: All About Genie ZeroOps | George Dutton

34 min 28 sec
In the hotseat this week is George Dutton, here to chat about Genie ZeroOps, Databricks' new autonomous background agent for data and AI operations. Is this the beginning of the end for Monday morning firefighting? With host Paul McComish, they dig into how Genie ZeroOps detects, diagnoses and fixes broken pipelines before they hit production, and why sandboxed testing is key to earning engineers' trust.
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