Kind of Cynical Data Guy #1

Called up to the Big Leagues with Joe Reis

222: The Future of Data Modeling: Breaking Free from Tables with Best-Selling Author, Joe Reis of Ternary Data

With Eric out of the country and everyone else out early on Christmas vacation, I had to slide over into the co-host seat for this weeks

The Data Stack Show

episode. And what a week to be the backup quaterback!

John Wessel

and I interviewed

Joe Reis

and talked about a lot related to data modeling, Joe’s new book, training data professional, and more data modeling. It is a longer episode but worth every minute.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Joe’s Recent Projects and Work (0:55)

• Joe’s New Book and Inspiration for Writing It (4:39)

• Challenges in Data Education (7:00)

• Internal Training Programs (10:02)

• Creative Problem Solving (17:46)

• Evaluating Candidates' Skills (21:18)

• Market Value and Career Growth (24:03)

• AI's Impact on Hiring (27:47)

• Content Production and Quality (31:56)

• The Evolution of AI and Data (34:00)

• Challenges of Automation (36:12)

• Convergence of Data Fields (40:26)

• Shortcomings of Relational Models (42:09)

• Inefficiencies of Poor Data Modeling (47:10)

• Discussion on Resource Constraints (51:50)

• The Role of Language Models (53:13)

• AI in Migration Projects (57:00)

• Joe’s Teaser for a New Project (59:05)

• Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks (1:00:07)