Data Perspectives podcast is presented by DAMA New England and created with the intention of creating a practical on-the-go data management resource that can be leveraged by data enthusiasts from various realms and industries.
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Jennifer Agnes on the Importance of creating strong communities and data initiatives, to pay it forward
Monday, August 7, 2023 • Duration 01:02:50
Recent Episodes:
Season 2| Episode 2| Quarter 2, 2023
Jennifer Agnes on the Importance of creating strong communities and data initiatives, to pay it forward
Episode summary:
In this episode, the host Nupur Gandhi is joined by the very 1st Chief Data officer (CDO) on the
podcast, Jennifer Agnes.
A humble human with numerous accolades such as 'DataIQ’s Top 100 US Most Influential People in Data' and 'CDO Magazine’s Top Data
Consultants', Jennifer is sure to wow you with her depth of knowledge and herextensive global experience but most importantly her ‘cool, calm and collected attitude’, will come across in all of her interactions.
A Data Leader vested in ' 'Building Data Communities', Jennifer is currently the Managing Director of the Cynozure Group and takes every opportunity to create data initiatives to pay it forward.
She credits resilience and being thick skinned as a recipe for success as a Chief Data
officer and brings a ton of insights and knowledge from her prior roles such as the Group Chief Data Officer at
Schneider Electric, Chief Data Officer for Risk & Finance at Credit Suisse and an extensive experience at GE Capital for over 20 years.
Get ready to get enlightened about 'Executive coaching' and why it is anybody's game and not just limited to executives. If you want to hear Jennifer elaborate on why Data is a teams sport, do check out out the podcast on any of your preferred podcast
platforms.
Nicole Janeway Bills on the current Trends in Data Management and the study approach for Data Certifications
Season 2 · Episode 1
Thursday, May 11, 2023 • Duration 53:51
Season 2| Episode 1| Quarter 1, 2023
Nicole Janeway- Bills on the current Trends in Data Management and the study approach for Data Certifications
Episode summary:
In this episode, the host Nupur Gandhi is joined by the smart and the soft spoken 'Nicole Janeway Bills', a young and insightful data-preneur and a founder of the Data Strategy Professionals.com. Nicole elaborates on her interesting career journey from a Data Consultant to a Data Scientist and ultimately as a Data Strategist. She is very candid and authentic in acknowledging her various life experiences that prompted her to reach for her passion and take an unconventional career path of being a full-time 'Community Organizer' with 2000+ members, at a very young age.
An ardent believer in the 'Power of a Community', Nicole has used many of her prior roles in data to create multiple initiatives for improving the understanding of data management concepts, simplifying some complex data trends and bringing together' data enthusiasts' from various facets and domains.
Additionally, Nicole shares the importance of study plans and CDMP exams and shares her vision of being a single trusted provider for any major data related certification.
You will enjoy her insights and her unconventional take on 'All things data' and life in general.
You will be also be amazed by her drive for researching current data management trends and studying complex and topics such as: data labelling for the machine learning and AI research community, increasing trend towards data sharing agreements, Impact of data privacy regulation, the global standards for privacy, federal policy on data privacy, rise of large language models, Importance of cloud and Multi-cloud deployment.
Do not miss her tips for an aspiring data enthusiast as well as for aspiring entrepreneur towards the end of the episode.
Andrew Andrews on the appreciation of the Human forms of Data Governance
Monday, January 30, 2023 • Duration 57:59
Episode summary:
In this episode, the host Nupur Gandhi is joined by our very 1st international podcast guest, Andrew Andrews, as he shares his career journey from a SAS Developer to a Data Strategy Consultant and most recently as a Data Governance Manager at ANZ bank, Australia. He candidly shares his experiences and learnings that have helped him succeed in large scale data management projects across various sectors including the government sector.
Andrew brings a fresh perspective on the unspoken and often undermined "Human" aspect, while building data governance programs as well as within people who are driving the change along with the sponsors of data initiatives.
Tune into the podcast recording to listen into Andrew's insights on normalizing the conversation around why having emotional intelligence baked into your data governance program is what's absolutely essential to be effective. Do make time to listen to his vision and role as a Global VP Marketing at the DAMA International forum and the Data Literacy assessment tool overview by the Data Leaders.
Key Takeaways:
Start your scope with something that's really small and valuable, deliver that and get people to use that, before you iterate and develop something broader in scope.
Work with end users right from the start and make sure that it's done in collaboration end user. It's like building a car. You don't build a car and then work out how do you drive it. You work out how to drive it first, then you build the car.
Use startup techniques internally within organizations to deliver projects that uplift capability and maturity of the organization.
Data governance should really be a bottom-up exercise as much as it is top down.
Do not fall in love with the next bright shiny thing. The only thing that matters is solving the problem of delivering business value to your stakeholders. Get that right first and work within your parameters.
To be a good data governance person, you have to be authentic and even show some level of vulnerability.
Lot of experts are talking about technical and data debt and why we need to invest more in data. We just have to make this more mainstream.
Scott Taylor on the Value of Data Storytelling for Better Data Management
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 • Duration 01:02:05
Recent Episodes:
Season 1 | Episode 3| Quarter 3, 2022
Scott Taylor on the value of Data Storytelling for Better Data Management
Episode summary:
In this episode, the host Nupur Gandhi is joined by the witty and the talented storyteller, Scott Taylor also touted as the Data Whisperer. He captivates you with valid analogies and funny witticisms' as he shares his career journey as a corporate professional in Nielsen and Dun & Bradstreet. He candidly shares his experiences, mistakes, challenges and learnings that have helped pave the way for him as a content creator and ultimately to being a solopreneur as a 'Data Whisperer'. You do not want to miss his practical tips and tricks spilled all over the podcast, on Data Storytellying, engaging the audience and garnering support from senior management.
Key Takeaways:
If you break Storytellying into three parts, there's the data part, there's the story part, which is how you put that narrative together and there's a telling part. How do you present it? Think about: Are you capturing people's attention? Do they care? And really focus on the message that we're trying to deliver.
One personal favorite technique used as a part of storytelling is to is how few words can I use? Reflect on Truth before meaning and find the truth in the data, before sharing the meaning.
Tips on securing support of higher management: You got to be ready to present in a compelling way. Your first couple of minutes are the most important. Better understand your business and you better know what your executives are already talking about.
If you plan to talk about a data program, you have to show why that work will enable the strategic intention of the enterprise. Where is your company going and why does data help you get there?
Be okay to demonstrate courageous leadership, if you believe strongly about a topic, even if your thought is not conventional or popular one.
Golden rule of data, is do unto your data as you would have it do unto you.
Always remember if you have an initiative, no matter what it is, that's based on technology, hardware, software, data. If you have data, you need data management. Data Management is macro trend, agnostic.
Designing your Data Strategy leveraging Data Governance and Data Management principles
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 • Duration 51:25
Recent Episodes:
Season 1| Episode 2| Quarter 2,2022
Sandi Perillo- Simmons on designing your Data Strategy leveraging Data Governance and Data Management principles
Episode summary:
In this episode, the host Nupur Gandhi is joined by a data strategist and data management expert, Sandi Perillo- Simmons.
Sandi gets candid about her career journey in data management and provides practical tidbits for building data governance ground up in any organization. She shares her broad experiences having worked in data governance roles at various capacities in a decentralized as well as centralized business function and explains not just 'the how' but especially 'The Why' of Data Strategy and Data Governance. She simplifies data cataloging and shares its critical role in data management. She brings her years of knowledge and experience in various data organizations to pinpoint why data standards need to be relevant.
She shares the rewarding experience working for industry organizations and underscores importance of cultivating relationships and networking to get to meet and learn from various other data enthusiasts. She provides invaluable tips and insights on how to enrich your data career while balancing with the demands and changes in a forever evolving data landscape.
Key Takeaways:
You can’t try to solve every data problem so make some tough decisions on what you can and can’t do. This is where the strategy and roadmap comes into play. You need to organize the work and often stretch it out over a 3-5 year plan
A smart and efficient way of keeping up with the changing data landscape is to understand organization’s business strategy along with constant participation and learning – with people within your organization and outside of your organization
For every Data management discipline that you include as part of your data strategy, you need rules and standards for how to go about performing these data management capabilities.
Laura Sebastian on creating a Data Culture by building Data Literacy and improving Data Quality
Season 1 · Episode 1
Thursday, April 7, 2022 • Duration 49:20
Episode summary:
In this episode, Nupur Gandhi is joined by Dr. Laura Sebastian Coleman who discusses the importance of data awareness and how to build the data quality strategy ground up. She explains how data literacy can be learnt and can in fact help reduce data quality problems.
She provides insights on her experiences editing the DMBOK and highlights, how honing her people skills, was a bigger challenge than bridging the disparate parts of DMBOK together, as an editor. She shares how her curiosity and voracious reading has helped her be a successful data practitioner in spite of data being her 3rd career.
She encourages everyone to not hesitate to ask questions, dabble with data and collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to get the utmost understanding of the impact of the data.
Key Takeaways:
· Embrace a data culture through increased awareness, improved data literacy
· Increasing data awareness within the organization will aid towards solving data quality problems and is a cost effective way to solve data quality problems along with building data literacy in the organization
· Data literacy is a flavor of general literacy and is an ability to understand, use and communicate about data and also to apply knowledge, skills and expertise of data to new situations
· Quick checklist to enable data quality improvement: What do you mean by high quality data, How do you detect low data quality issue, what do you do once you detect the low data quality issue
· A cost effective DQ improvement principle that most organizations can use is to ensure everyone is aware of their internal data consumers and understand how those internal data consumers use your data
Key Takeaways:
- Tools are getting better but the basic core principles of data management aren't changing.
- What you need for a good data governance program is pretty resistant to the ever-changing, ever improving relentless march of progress in
technology. Same thing like data quality.
More about the guest, Nicole Janeway Bills:
Nicole offers a proven track record of applying Data Strategy and related disciplines to solve clients’ most pressing challenges. She has
worked as a Data Scientist and Project Manager for federal and commercial consulting teams Nicole is a Founder of datastrategypros.com where she helps busy professionals ace the Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) exam.
Nicole has written 35+ Medium articles, mostly for Towards Data Science. Her business experience includes natural language processing, cloud computing,
statistical testing, pricing analysis, ETL processes, and web and application development.
DAMA New England is an educational and networking resource for the data management community. And this
podcast is DAMA New England’s 1st initiative.
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Episode Notes:
Feel free to tap into any of Nicole's initiatives:
A highly experienced professional, author and facilitator, Andrew has a long record of achievement in data governance, data analysis, data quality, master data management and business intelligence within the banking, health, education, natural resources, NFP, and government sectors. Additionally he has launched successful new businesses and led large-scale digital transformations to maximize the value of data.
DAMA New England is an educational and networking resource for the data management community. And this podcast is DAMA New England’s 1stinitiative.
Subscribe to our podcast if not already. And if you found this podcast valuable do not hesitate to follow, like or comment so others in the data community can find us and tap into the podcast perspectives.
For unpacking more such data insights and knowledge sessions, feel free to join the DAMA New England chapter and consider being a member, if you aren’t one already.
Episode Notes:
- Leading panel session at International Chief Data Officer, Information Quality Symposium July 2022.
Don't talk about what you will deliver. Deliver it and then showcase the results. A lot of it is the positioning, a lot of it's in how we articulate it, which is part of what storytelling is all about.
Leverage 1 min with a CEO: Start with some of the big things that are already on their mind. Have that in your head. Be fluent in what your business is trying to do. And if you're looking for where those initiatives are, what the vision of your company is, look at your own annual report or your own company strategy statement. Also be ready for a yes and when you get the yes, move on.
Learn your business as a data leader and you will find opportunities and potentially funding.
More about the guest, Scott Taylor:
Scott Taylor, more popularly known as The Data Whisperer, has helped countless companies by enlightening business executives to the strategic value of proper data management. He focuses on business alignment and the “strategic WHY” rather than system implementation and the “technical HOW.” As Principal Consultant for MetaMeta Consulting he helps Enterprises and Tech Brands tell their data story.
Data Governance will get engrained when it is backed up with a leadership support, a data-governance driven mindset and when one customizes the governance roadmap based on the company's maturity.
Data Cataloging is much like Yelp and is the gold standard of metadata management – making metadata accessible and informative to non-technical data users.
Data Cataloging can help with tracking and scaling data lineage, remove manual aspects of Metadata management and shrink timeframe of creating data
More about the guest, Sandi Perillo-Simons:
Sandi is a seasoned veteran in multiple data management disciplines such as data strategy, data governance and stewardship, data quality, metadata management, and data security/access. Sandi’s data management knowledge has helped drive enterprise data initiatives and data asset assessment programs providing tangible business value and enabling operational efficiencies. Sandi is currently a member of the IDMA Board of Directors, President of DAMA New England and holds the CIDM, CDMP, and ACE designations from IDMA, DAMA, and ACORD respectively.
DAMA New England is an educational and networking resource for the data management community. And this podcast is DAMA New England’s 1stinitiative.
Subscribe to our podcast if not already. And if you found this podcast valuable do not hesitate to follow, like or comment so others in the data community can find us and tap into the podcast perspectives.
For unpacking more such data insights and knowledge sessions, feel free to join the DAMA New England chapter and consider being a member, if you aren’t one already.
· Data literacy can most certainly be learned and practiced, no matter where you are in your data journey
· People skills will always remain the biggest challenge, no matter the initiative
· Use frameworks to guide you but don’t expect them to solve the problem as frameworks are a part of the solution, not the solution
· Being curious about data and asking the right questions along with partnering with data stakeholders like data modelers, data architects in your company can be a good starting point to build data literacy
Episode Notes:
Recommend reading the 3 data management books, authored by Dr. Laura Sebastian Coleman, all available on Amazon
More about the guest, Dr Laura Sebastian- Coleman:
Laura is a Director of Data Quality management in Prudential, author of multiple data management books, recipient of DAMA Award for Excellence in Data Management.
