Looking for the fastest way to stay current in data? Podcasts let you learn while commuting, coding or exercising. The 10 shows ranked below release fresh 2025 episodes packed with technical depth and hard-won lessons from industry leaders.
Each podcast was scored on seven weighted criteria: content depth, breadth of topics, host expertise, episode frequency, production quality, community engagement and actionable takeaways. Scores were validated against listener reviews and guest line-ups announced for 2025 seasons.
Host Tobias Macey interviews engineers building real-world pipelines. Upcoming 2025 episodes cover zero-ETL architectures and cost-aware lakehouse design. Detailed show notes and code links make each hour immediately usable.
The show balances niche infrastructure topics with strategic discussions, publishes weekly and maintains an active Slack of 18,000 members.
Run by dbt Labs’ Tristan Handy and Julia Schottenstein, this podcast explores semantic layers, lineage and team process. Season four launching March 2025 adds mini-series on governance at scale.
Analytics engineers and product-minded data leads who bridge SQL modeling and stakeholder impact.
Kyle Polich demystifies statistics, causal inference and ML. 2025’s theme is “Decision Intelligence,” merging classical stats with GenAI guardrails.
Weights & Biases co-founder Lukas Biewald chats with researchers shipping production ML. The 2025 line-up features guests from OpenAI, Anthropic and Airbnb focusing on observability.
DataCamp’s Adel Nehme profiles leaders turning data culture into ROI. Season eight (2025) spotlights responsible AI and metrics layers.
Hilary Parker and Roger Peng mix academic rigor with industry anecdotes. Their 2025 reboot returns to weekly cadence and dives into experiment design at scale.
Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner explore data visualization. The 2025 “Visual Ethics” arc discusses trustworthy chart design for AI dashboards.
Jon Krohn offers bite-sized tutorials plus long-form interviews. New 2025 episodes add live coding segments on vector databases.
Arpit Choudhury pulls lessons from modern stack founders. Season three (2025) unpacks composable CDPs and real-time privacy controls.
Industry veterans Michael Helbling, Moe Kiss and Tim Wilson debate analytics leadership. Their 2025 “Metrics That Matter” series gives frameworks for executive storytelling.
Prioritize Data Engineering Podcast and Gradient Dissent for architecture deep dives.
Analytics Engineering Podcast and DataFramed teach semantic and organizational best practices.
Data Stories, Not So Standard Deviations and The Analytics Power Hour improve narrative craft.
Great podcasts spark ideas. Galaxy turns those ideas into production-ready SQL. With its context-aware AI copilot and shareable Collections, learners can prototype the techniques they hear about, endorse them with peers and build a single source of truth. After an episode on lakehouses, spin up a Galaxy query and apply concepts immediately.
One well-chosen episode per week covers most new trends. Focus on shows that match your role so you can immediately apply insights.
Yes. Start with Super Data Science and Data Skeptic for foundational explanations, then progress to deeper shows like Data Engineering Podcast.
Galaxy lets you test podcast concepts in a context-aware SQL editor. You can iterate on sample queries, share them with peers and keep learning momentum.
All listed podcasts are free on major platforms. Some offer optional paid newsletters or community tiers.
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