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Episodes
164 episodes
🤔 VAST Data: AI OS or Hyperbole?
This week's DataPro.News analyses VAST Data, a relatively new company experiencing rapid growth that claims to offer a revolutionary approach to managing the vast amounts of data needed for artificial intelligence applications. The artic...
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Modernising a 400 year old business
How do you modernise an industry that's been around since the Dodo went extinct that's survived the Industrial Revolution and now facing the Digital Revolution?
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💾 The Enduring Impact of Jim Gray
This week we take a comprehensive look at the life and impact of Jim Gray, a highly influential figure in computer science. It highlights his significant contributions to database systems, transaction processing, and dis...
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📔 Claude 4 and Data Vault 2.1 Revolutionise Data Management
This week's DataPro.News discusses the simultaneous release of Anthropic's Claude 4 AI models and the Data Vault 2.1 methodology certification, highlighting their combined impact on modern data management. It explains how Claude 4...
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How to Summarise a 600 Page Technical Manual into a beginner's guide
It started as a white paper and expanded - that's how Hernan Revale describe the process of creating a handy guide book introduction to Data Vault - a warehouse model that's just turned 25 and is still adapting and evolving today for modern dat...
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💻 Patricia Selinger and Query Optimisation
This week we look at the significant contributions of Patricia (Pat) Selinger, a highly influential computer scientist in the field of relational database systems. It details her educational background and impressive car...
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🛠️ Azure Cosmos DB: Pros, Cons, and AI Potential
This analysis explores Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, a database platform described as a "fully managed NoSQL, relational, and vector database." The piece examines its strengths, such as scalability, performance, and ...
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Case Study - Product Monitoring in Manfacturing
Tim and Lorenz walk us through a case study on how to report product monitoring for a technology and manufacturing organisation with 24'000 employees to consider.
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💻 The Amazing Grace Hopper
We take a comprehensive overview of the life and impact of Grace Hopper, a pivotal figure in computing and a U.S. Navy rear admiral. It highlights her academic background, earning degrees including a PhD in Mathematics from Yale, ...
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🏗️ Enterprise AI: RAG, Agentic Workflows, and Implementation Strategies
In this week's DataPro.News, we explore the rapid advancement of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic AI architectures within enterprise settings during 2025, highlighting their shift from experimental concepts to cruc...
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Using AI RAG Architecture to improve process outcomes
In this presentation from the Melbourne Data Innovators Exchange Meet up in early May, 2025, Sheng Lan, Steve Rose and Sam Redmond talk us how the proper use of R.A.G Architecture in AI can help increase process efficiencies and outcomes.
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Peter Chen and the Entity-Relationship Model
This text profiles Peter Pin-Shan Chen, a Taiwanese-born computer scientist renowned for creating the Entity-Relationship (ER) Model in 1976. The ER Model, detailed in his influential paper, provided a visual and conceptual met...
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Transforming Data Governance with AI Catalog
This piece from datapro.news discusses how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping data governance and data accessibility within organisations. It highlights how tools like Coalesce Catalog (formerly CastorDoc) l...
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Introducing Coalesce Catalog - an AI Tool for Data People
Coalesce's latest acquisition is an AI tool designed to help data people by finding the most efficient way to ensure data quality through various pipelines. In this week's episode, Sam sits down and talks to one of its creators, Tristan Mayers,...
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Chamberlin and Boyce: The Genesis of SQL
This text details the groundbreaking work of Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM in the early 1970s. Inspired by the relational data model, they co-created SQL, initially named SEQUEL, which became the standard language ...
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Data Battlegrounds: The Empire Far Far Away
To celebrate Star Wars Day, we take a look at the vast and intricate data infrastructure of the Galactic Empire. It outlines the Holonet, an interstellar network facilitating communication and data transfer, and the tiered syst...
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🔑 Australian Banking Breach and Infostealer Defence Strategies
This week's Datapro Newsletter discusses the significant increase in infostealer malware, which covertly steals sensitive data such as passwords and financial details. It highlights a major incident in Australia where 31,000 ba...
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140 years of data to look after!
When a 140 year old company working in mining and cement sold part of it's business, it created new challenges in how to effectively manage its data. In this case study, Tim and Lorenz from Scalefree show us how they approached the challenge an...
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Edgar F. Codd: Architect of Relational Databases
This source profiles Edgar F. Codd, a British computer scientist who revolutionised data management. It highlights his wartime service and academic background before detailing his groundbreaking relational database model developed...
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🗣️ Reverse Prompting for Data Engineering Productivity
This article from datapro.news introduces reverse prompting, a novel technique aimed at improving productivity for data engineers working with AI. It addresses the issue of prompt engineering fatigue by shifting the interaction pa...
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Optimizing Multi-Plant Manufacturing Quality with Data-Driven KPIs
Join Lorenz and Tim from Scalefree as they talk us through a case study on how to best optimize KPIs using data driven change!
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Generative Engine Optimisation: A Data Engineer's Playbook
This source from datapro.news outlines the significant shift from traditional Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), where AI synthesises information for search results. It emphasises the crucial role of data ...
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Perception Differences on AI and how to approach them going forward
A Labour Party conference in Wellington explored the initial stages of crafting AI policies and regulations in New Zealand, gathering diverse experts to discuss AI's economic impact, ethical implications, and workforce preparation. Co...
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RAG for Enterprise: Integrating LLMs with Business Data
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is presented as a favourable method for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) within businesses, enabling them to utilise proprietary data effectively. The article highlights the advantages of RAG ...
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Data Battlegrounds: The Cambridge Analytica Scandal
In early 2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed the unauthorised collection of Facebook user data for political manipulation. A UK firm obtained information from millions via a personality quiz app, extending its reach to users' f...
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