Community Milestone: Our Journey to 7000+ Readers, Contributors, & Supporters
100+ Core Data Product Strategies, How-Tos, Use Cases, Debates, and More Exclusively on Substack. Delivered to the Community by the Community.
We're thrilled to share that Modern Data 101 has reached a new milestone with
a readership of over 7000 readers on Substack!
With each not just supporting the MD101 initiative but adding to technologies, approaches, and cultures we conceptualise, curate, or share together!
45+ Voices Resonating on All Things Data Products! 🎶
When we say MD101 is a melting pot of cultures, knowledge, ideas, and innovations, we mean it! With 45 authors, co-authors, and contributors so far, including top industry veterans, in-house experts, and solid curators, the Modern Data 101 Substack has been an amalgamation of perspectives from across the globe on productising data and enhancing data cultures.
"None of us is as smart as all of us." — Ken Blanchard
We actively collaborate with experts in the data space to surface diverse perspectives and value to the community. Feel free to reach out if you have hot ideas brewing! As they say, no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Contact us at community@moderndata101.com
*Note: All work is vetted for quality & relevance.
What You’ve Been Saying 🧡
Every day, we are overwhelmed with the support, collaboration, and partnership from you, which immediately adds incredible value to even the blank canvas we start with 🖌️
Your insights, energy, and trust turn simple ideas into impact, and this two-way commitment has always inspired us to strive for better. Together, we’re not just building solutions; we’re weaving long-lasting value. A new direction led by a collective of incredible minds.
"The best way to predict the future is to create it—together." — Peter Drucker
Thank you for being an integral part of this journey — for showing up, contributing, and making this community not just a network, but a living and breathing body of ideas and action. Here’s to continuing to grow, innovate, and thrive together.
Top 5 Stories You Loved The Most! 🧡
A story is not just an idea. It is a force, an invitation, and a revolution. And we thank each storyteller here for sharing theirs with us; may the force be with you!
Where Exactly Data Becomes Product: Illustrated Guide to Data Products in Action
Like all software systems, data or AI use cases are supported by deep underlying infrastructures. But why has the infrastructure specific to data evolved into one of the most overwhelming of the lot? The brief answer is the transient element of data, which isn’t such a dominating presence in general software systems. Data is varied, dynamic, and always …
Evolution of the Data Stack: The story of how we interpret ever-growing data | Issue #6
TOC The Stepping Stone: The Traditional Data Stack and why it became obsolete
Data Products: A Case Against Medallion Architecture
If this is going to be a case against the Medallion architecture, we need to lawyer up on both ends and make a case for Medallion first—its significance, reasons behind its emergence, impact, and why it worked or didn’t work. And don’t worry, we’ll keep the defence short so we have the stage for what’s coming.
So I Have A Data Product... Now What?
This piece is a community contribution from Ryan Duffy, a Data Strategy Leader with over a decade of experience! He has been part of the inner workings of what it takes to effectively deliver enterprise data, including establishing the Chief Data Offices for some of the largest financial institutions – some of which are probably represented in your wall…
Operationalizing Data Product Delivery in the Data Ecosystem
This piece is a community contribution from Dylan Anderson, a strategy consultant and data storyteller who excels at bridging the gap between data and business strategy. With a passion for translating complex data into actionable insights, Dylan shares his expertise on
Special shout-out to Pietro La Torre for contributing MD101’s 100th Substack Edition!
Lost in Translation: Data without Context is a Body Without a Brain
This piece is a community contribution from Pietro La Torre, a Data Strategy Advisor with a focus on practical, sustainable and resilient strategies that drive real impact. He dons multiple hats including Staff Engineer, Tech Sales Engineer, and Partner Manager. Pietro is currently serving in the Strategy & Business Dev team led by the CTO, playing a cr…
Featured Work from Modern Data 101 ⭐️
The Data Product Playbook Downloaded by Over 2000 of You!
Since its launch, the playbook has been downloaded over 2000 times and counting! We’re thrilled with the response and quality feedback so far to this 6-week guide we’ve built with industry experts and practitioners. Get your copy now!
Exceptional Analytics Heroes Joined Us for a Tête-à-tête! 🦸🏻♀️🦸🏻♂️
A dedicated POV from Analytics & Data Engineers downloaded 7000 times!— We've had a blast chatting with our Analytics Heroes, who live and breathe data every day! They are spilling the beans on their challenges, clever workarounds, and why the field is buzzing with Data Products in this ever-evolving landscape.
It was a fun time, thank you so much for all those questions, it's always fun to think about them and see like "What! Now I'm a data nerd! ~ Sheila Torrico | Tech Product/Program Manager & Founding Member of Data Product Leadership Community
To be honest there was a lot of reflecting for me as well, like I haven't thought so deep about the questions that you've asked me at least not in a dedicated environment so this has really helped me to reflect on them! ~ Dominik Neumann | Data & AI Strategy Manager at Accenture
The Data Navigator Onboarded 3500+ Sailors! 🧭 🏴☠️
While our Substack feeds your appetite for top-notch core data content, The Data Navigator has become a go-to news digest for everything sizzling in the modern data world. We’re talking hot topics, top events & news, must-read content, shoutouts to our standout community members, and much more!
Stronger Than Ever LinkedIn Community of 9K Members!
With 9,000 of you chiming in on our daily updates and info bytes, we are overwhelmed by your constant support! It has been an amazing experience for the team to see you constantly show up, engage, and share insights with the community.
Quarterly State of Data Products Flying Off the Shelf with 700 Subscriptions 🗞️
The quarterly edition of The State of Data Products (SODP) captures the evolving state of data products in the industry. The latest edition was an overhaul of the state and evolution of data products across the four quarters in 2024, which received a great response from the community.
Now, with the upcoming Q1-2025 Edition, we’re taking it further, diving deep into what’s shaping the data product landscape today (join the waitlist here). To really get the essence of how the Data Product landscape is shifting, feel free to study the last edition before the next one drops!
Added to 1500+ Public Reading Lists on Medium!
If you’re not a substacker or don’t like to frequent social media, we got you 🧡
We recently started channeling the community’s work on Medium and saw brilliant resonance in a new “reader” community. We’ve stumbled upon a whole new precinct of data folks who have been discussing, highlighting, adding your work to TBRs with cool names, and making so much more out of our authors’ ideas and approaches.
We’re Always Brewing ♨
Some cool new insights dropping soon!
It’s a Long Way Ahead, Thanks for Being Here 🧡
Stay tuned to moderndata101.com for more actionable resources from us!
MD101 Blogs & Modules: Find product strategies that work for data, concepts, approaches, how-tos, to-dos, and more!
MD101 Curation: Stop the content overwhelm. Find all the top resources from the best sources, curated with time and care by subject matter experts in the community- all in one place!
MD101 Directory: Your go-to directory to discover top voices and experts from niche spaces like data products, data mesh, productised analytics & AI/ML, and more!
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