In this special rant episode, Sonny Rivera joins Juan and Tim during a live recording and rant about AI-generated dashboards, semantic layers, and what it takes to trust an answer. The situation: dashboards slop is easy to build which makes foundation matter more, not less. We discussed: 
Building a dashboard was never the hard part. Being able to explain where a number came from is.
Speed without a governed foundation produces wrong answers faster. As Sonny put it, “fast and wrong is still wrong.”
Modeling data is really modeling the business. The job has not changed. How it gets done is changing.
A single source of truth did not hold up. Favors an interoperable set of semantic layers and context, with shared definitions where people actually care.
Logic written in the moment, in a dashboard or a pipeline, often never makes it back into the semantic layer. Closing that loop is the gap to fix.
Friction between teams is a sign that a definition matters. Make the differences visible rather than forbidding them.
Trust is what data leaders can least afford to lose, which is why testing belongs in dashboards too.
Writing code is no longer the slow part. Product management and testing are becoming the bottlenecks.

<p>In this special rant episode, Sonny Rivera joins Juan and Tim during a live recording and rant about AI-generated dashboards, semantic layers, and what it takes to trust an answer. The situation: dashboards slop is easy to build which makes foundation matter more, not less. We discussed:&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Building a dashboard was never the hard part. Being able to explain where a number came from is.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Speed without a governed foundation produces wrong answers faster. As Sonny put it, &ldquo;fast and wrong is still wrong.&rdquo;</li>
<li aria-level="1">Modeling data is really modeling the business. The job has not changed. How it gets done is changing.</li>
<li aria-level="1">A single source of truth did not hold up. Favors an interoperable set of semantic layers and context, with shared definitions where people actually care.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Logic written in the moment, in a dashboard or a pipeline, often never makes it back into the semantic layer. Closing that loop is the gap to fix.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Friction between teams is a sign that a definition matters. Make the differences visible rather than forbidding them.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Trust is what data leaders can least afford to lose, which is why testing belongs in dashboards too.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Writing code is no longer the slow part. Product management and testing are becoming the bottlenecks.</li>
</ul>

Catalog and Cocktails is the honest, No-BS, non-sales-y podcast about data and analytics. This is your unfiltered chat about everything interesting in data and analytics. Join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper to explore emerging topics and hear from thought leaders, practitioners and executives across the data and analytics space.

<p>Catalog and Cocktails is the honest, No-BS, non-sales-y podcast about data and analytics. This is your unfiltered chat about everything interesting in data and analytics. Join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper to explore emerging topics and hear from thought leaders, practitioners and executives across the data and analytics space.</p>