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Eric Dodds 00:13
Welcome back to The Data Stack. 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, the cynical data guy, Matt, welcome back to the show. Or Steve, I guess I should say, thanks for having me back. Eckhart. Ricker, thank you for that little yes tidbit right there. Yes, we do have to thank Eckhart 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
Matthew Kelliher-Gibson 01:13
It’s okay, fab. That’s all. It really is. Okay.
Eric Dodds 01:17
Well, actually, stone cold. Steve Austin of data, we have a really good one to start out with. One of our good friends, Rogan, has been on the show multiple times, just a fun guy and a long time 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 this of that last year, 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.
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