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Eric Dodds 00:13
Welcome back to The Data Stack Show. And today we are returning to our monthly installment of the cynical data guy, our special monthly guest, Matt Kelliher Gibson, who is jaded over decades in corporate data, and he shares that cynicism with us and add, as it adds a dash of wit for fun, as always, welcome back to the show, Matt.
Matthew Kelliher-Gibson 00:54
Welcome my time to reign over you all has come again.
John Wessel 01:01
Okay? Rain on all of us. I mean, rain on our parade. Yeah. I’m
Matthew Kelliher-Gibson 01:07
also just gonna rule with an iron fist.
Eric Dodds 01:08
Yes, the fist of data. Okay, I only have two items for the lightning round, and then we’re gonna 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 gonna, you know, we’re not gonna read any because there are so many, I’ll read a couple of samples that I pulled. Yeah, I’ll just read a couple samples that I pulled. But we won’t mention any names. Okay, so you join a company as a head of data, you gotta schedule meetings with everyone in the C suite. You got to ask the IT team for a full list of business applications. You got to create, you know, 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. Okay, so let’s start there. John, how do you 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,
Matthew Kelliher-Gibson 02:35
I remember, I’m the cynical one, right? Remember? Yeah,
John Wessel 02:39
I’m gonna try really hard on this one.
Eric Dodds. 02:43
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.
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