179: Tiankai Feng: The comeback of data quality and how NLP is changing the data analyst role

Episode notes

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Tiankai Feng, Data & AI Strategy Director at Thoughtworks and Author of Humanizing Data Strategy. (00:00) - Intro (01:06) - In This Episode (03:18) - How Data and Marketing Create a Symbiotic Relationship (06:00) - If Data Governance Is the Jedi Council, Marketing Ops Is the Rebel Alliance (08:26) - How to Organize Data Teams and Improve Marketing Collaboration (14:49) - Handling Healthy Data Conflicts Without Crushing Creativity (25:23) - How to Use Shadowing to Fix Broken Marketing Alignment (36:44) - The Comeback of Data Quality (43:20) - How Natural Language BI Tools Change Data Analyst Work (46:50) - How Composable Data Management Works in Marketing (53:30) - How to Use Authentic Communication to Build Influence in Marketing Ops (56:40) - Happiness Summary: Data governance feels like the Jedi Council, steady with its rules, while marketing ops moves like the Rebel Alliance, quick to adapt when perfect data never arrives. Tiankai believes progress comes from blending discipline with curiosity, bringing data in early as a partner, not a critic.

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