Matt Housley

CTO, Halfpipe Systems · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matt Housley is a data and cloud architect who co-authored the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering with Joe Reis. He previously co-founded the data engineering consultancy Ternary Data and now consults as CTO of Halfpipe Systems.

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276 words/min while actually speaking · 9.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Matt Housley: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,313 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said4 Episodes1

Everything Matt Housley said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Housley: Moving from Hadoop to cloud data stacks has been very tough

“One of the things, one of the transitions that Joe and I went through, which I think a lot of people in this room went through, was the transition from the Hadoop world, from the previous big data world, into this new, like, cloud-based data engineering snack,…”

Matt Housley Oct 24, 2022 ▶ 1:03 Fundamentals of Data Engineering | Joe Reis and Matt Housley

Insight

Housley: Core data engineering issues haven't changed in 20 years

“A lot of the core issues in data engineering actually haven't changed that much in 20 years, and so people got so excited about technology in the transition in the 2000, the internet bubble, rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, that they lost sight of that”

Matt Housley Oct 24, 2022 ▶ 4:39 Fundamentals of Data Engineering | Joe Reis and Matt Housley

Insight

Housley: Many big data era data lakes turned into data swamps

“In many cases, I mean, I, I've worked in companies like this, it just turned into a data swamp, and that's because, in spite of the amazing technology we had, we kind of lost sight of these fundamental things.”

Matt Housley Oct 24, 2022 ▶ 6:55 Fundamentals of Data Engineering | Joe Reis and Matt Housley

Insight

Housley: Statistics and ML skills cannot overcome poor data inputs

“No matter how good you are at statistics or machine learning, it's hard to make sense of data without having some quality inputs.”

Matt Housley Oct 24, 2022 ▶ 12:07 Fundamentals of Data Engineering | Joe Reis and Matt Housley

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Fundamentals of Data Engineering \| Joe Reis and Matt Housley	Oct 24, 2022	10m

Matt Housley

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