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DataAware Podcast
Leslie Denson

Back to the Beginning with Data Ingest

In this episode, we go back to the foundations of data engineering and data pipelines with a deep dive into data ingest.

DataAware Podcast
Leslie Denson

Data Automation: The Pros and Pros. Are there Cons?

In this episode, we look at a foundational aspect of data engineering workloads—automation, including the confusion that frequently surrounds data automation and how some data teams can avoid the major pitfall of going too far too fast.

DataAware Podcast
Leslie Denson

Orchestrating Data for Success with Automation

In this episode, we chat about one of the foundational principles of data engineering—data orchestration. What is it, who needs it, and just how data engineering organizations need it to evolve over the next few years.

DataAware Podcast
Leslie Denson

Podcast: Expecting Great Things from Data with James Campbell

In this episode, we chatted with James Campbell, CTO of Superconductive—the team behind Great Expectations, about some of the intricacies of data validation as well as what it’s like to build an engaged community in the data realm.

DataAware Podcast
Leslie Denson

Podcast: Achieving Data Alignment at Every Level with X is Y

In this episode, we dove in with Cyrus Facciano & Jared Langguth of X is Y about the challenges that data teams—all the way up to the CDO—face in getting alignment on data, data strategy, and analytics outcomes.

DataAware Podcast
Leslie Denson

Podcast: Shaving off Time to Analysis at Harry’s

In the latest episode of the DataAware podcast, Sheel and Harry’s Data Analyst William Knighting discuss how the Harry’s data science team recently undertook an effort to expedite ingesting, transforming, and delivering new retail data feeds into a robust shared data model that connects all brand information across every retail

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