About Data Sidebar 🍸📊
Welcome to Data Sidebar, cool drinks and hot takes on data from Tim & Juan.
We love the world of data, analytics, and AI, and the intersection where research, ideas, and theory mesh with practical, proven business application. And we love a good cocktail, mocktail, beer, or wine. Join our community centered around honest, no-BS conversations on what’s happening in the world of data, and having fun along the way!
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Check out our podcast, Catalog & Cocktails, on all your favorite social and podcast platforms, in the top 2.5% of global podcast listenership. Awesome guests join us for an honest, no-BS, non-salesy conversation about data, with tasty beverages in hand.
About Tim
Tim Gasper has over 15 years of customer-centric Product Management, Services and Offerings Management, and Product Marketing experience in B2B SaaS for data, analytics, and AI.
Tim brings proven results, radical transparency, exceptional communication and collaboration, and bold determination to every organization he is a part of, including a strong startup track record with 4 successful exits. He mobilizes change and impact at scale, establishing vision and accountability, harmonizing different points of views while challenging assumptions, building and empowering diverse teams, and mentoring the next generation of data and business leaders.
Tim loves the intersection of people and innovation, as evidenced by core values of growth, creativity, integrity, empathy, and joy. This creed is especially embodied by the popular podcast he co-hosts, Catalog & Cocktails, an honest no-BS discussion on data (with tasty craft beverage in hand). Tim speaks and writes on data, product management, entrepreneurship, and customer success.
About Juan
Juan Sequeda is the Principal Scientist and Head of AI Lab at data.world. He joined through the acquisition of Capsenta, a company he founded as a spin-off from his PhD research in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. His goal is to reliably create knowledge from inscrutable data. His research and industry work has been on designing and building Knowledge Graph for enterprise data and metadata management.
Juan is the recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, received 2nd Place in the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge for his work on ConstituteProject.org, Best Student Research Paper at the 2014 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), the 2015 Best Transfer and Innovation Project awarded by the Institute for Applied Informatics and nominated two additional times for best paper at ISWC. Juan is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Web Semantics, Advisory Board of Patterns Journal, member of multiple knowledge graph and AI program committees (ISWC, ESWC, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI), organizer of various academic and industry conferences and general chair of The Web Conference 2023.
Juan has researched and developed technologies for semantic and graph data virtualization, graph data modeling, schema mapping and data integration methodologies. He pioneered technology to construct knowledge graphs from relational databases, resulting in W3C standards, research awards, patents, software and his startup Capsenta acquired by data.world in 2019. Wearing his scientific hat, his research interests are at the intersection of Logic and Data for (ontology-based) data integration and semantic/graph data management. Wearing his business hat, Juan does business strategy, technical sales and works with customers to understand their problems to translate back to R&D. Juan strives to build bridges between academia and industry as a co-chair of the LDBC Property Graph Schema Working Group, past member of the LDCB Graph Query Languages task force and standards editor at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Juan is the co-author of the book “Designing and Building Enterprise Knowledge Graph” and the co-host of Catalog and Cocktails, an honest, no-BS, non-salesy data podcast.
