#12 - Tomas Peluritis: Becoming a Data Person

Tomas Peluritis is a data engineer, team leader, and the founder and host of Duomenu Dede (Uncle Data), a podcast about all things data: engineering, analytics, science, and leadership. SUPPORT UKRAINE VIA: - "Blue/Yellow for Ukraine": https://blue-yellow.lt/en - "Stiprūs kartu": https://stipruskartu.lt - "Red Cross": https://www.aukok.lt/projektai/Musu-sirdys-ir-rankos-Ukrainai PODCAST LINKS: - Podcast website: https://en.coach.lt/podcast - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rjyBLyFAFdIln9gMND6ss?si=d31721bcbfce491d - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/lt/podcast/happy-developer-podcast/id1609951211 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5yc3MuY29tL2hhcHB5ZGV2ZWxvcGVyL2ZlZWQueG1s SOCIAL: - LinkedIn (company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/coach-lt/ - LinkedIn (personal): https://www.linkedin.com/in/godliauskas/ - Facebook (personal): https://www.facebook.com/povilas.godliauskas CHAPTERS:

(0:00) Intro (3:00) Optimism (7:27) Growing up (12:50) Proving others wrong (17:04) Hating programming (24:34) Hating university (36:55) Hating your first job (38:22) Falling in love with SQL (44:07) Data roles and areas (45:14) Data engineer (47:23) DWH developer (49:58) Data developer (55:37) Data analyst (58:50) Data engineer vs. analyst (I) (1:01:27) Analytics engineer (1:03:35) Data engineer vs. analyst (II) (1:05:02) Data scientist (1:07:55) Data science modeling (1:10:12) Academia vs. business (1:18:58) Machine learning (1:21:01) Deep learning (1:21:16) Artificial intelligence (1:23:04) Abusing the term "AI" (1:25:26) Machine translation (1:28:26) Career lessons learnt (1:29:30) Having fun with data (1:30:18) Trying out new things (1:36:08) Taking long walks (1:40:56) Waking up early (1:41:22) Spending time with family (1:45:12) Open communication (1:46:19) "Uncle Data" (1:48:34) Outro