Data Voyagers Podcast is a focused show on Data Literacy and Data Science Literacy, presented by Igor Alcantara and Angelika Kildas. The podcast delivers the latest news and trends in data while breaking down complex topics into clear, accessible insights. Navigating the Stories Behind the Numbers, the hosts provide an engaging and informative dialogue that empowers listeners to understand and leverage data in their everyday lives.
Picture a meeting room on a Tuesday afternoon. Someone is presenting the quarterly numbers. Behind that one slide there are months of work. Pipelines that run at three in the morning. A data model somebody argued about for weeks. Numbers checked, rechecked, governed, blessed. The chart goes up on the screen. Everyone nods.And then the person at the head of the table leans back and says, "I hear you. But my gut tells me something different." And the room moves on.
Here is the part that should keep us up at night. The data was right. Every number on that slide was correct. And it still lost. It lost to a feeling.
When that happens, our instinct is to treat it as a data problem. We buy another tool. We build another dashboard. We add one more chart, because surely the eleventh one will be the one that lands. And the graveyard grows. Dashboards nobody opens. Reports nobody reads. Study after study says most of the data companies collect is never even analyzed, and a scary share of professionals admit they do not trust the data in front of them when it is time to decide. It is what I like to call a shelfware.But the problem was never in the data. The problem is in the space between the data and the human being looking at it. And that space is smaller than we think. It comes down to three little moments. Does the thing on the screen catch your eye at all? Does your brain recognize what it is looking at? And when you walk out of that room, does anything stay with you? Fail any one of those three, and every beautiful piece of engineering upstream was for nothing.
Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador MVP Igor Alcantara, Qlik Partner and Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode invites Henny Speelman, a data visualization and data storytelling expert, to talk about his framework: A.R.T. and the impact of how we see the world around us in the way we interpret data.
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Links Mentioned
Igor's personal website: https://igoralcantara.comYou can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758
SponsorshipThis episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/
Credits:Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/ Henny Speelman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henny-speelman
Audio Editing: Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/
Image and Production:Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/
4 Aug 2026
#34 - How Data Is Changing Healthcare
Healthcare produces more data than almost any other industry, yet most of it is used to describe what already happened. This episode explores what happens when that data starts predicting instead. We look at how predictive analytics can flag a patient's deterioration hours before a crisis, how AI is reshaping electronic health records, why clinical intuition and algorithms work better together than apart, and how universities are preparing a new generation of clinicians who are as fluent in data as they are in patient care. Whether you work in healthcare or just care about what data can do when lives are on the line, this conversation shows an industry moving from documenting the past to predicting the future.
Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador MVP Igor Alcantara, Qlik Partner and Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode brings Katherine Taylor Pearson as a guest. Katherine is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, an Assistant Professor at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing, and the President of the American Nursing Informatics Association. Before all of that, she served a full career in the U.S. Army and retired as a Colonel. She holds so many certifications that her credentials barely fit on one line: informatics, digital health, Lean Six Sigma, knowledge management, and more. She is also a Qlik Education Ambassador, and at Texas Tech she is building what she calls the nation's first Intelligent Healthcare Systems Program, preparing nurse leaders who understand.
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Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/Follow Data Voyagers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavoyagersLearn more about training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training
Links Mentioned
Igor's personal website: https://igoralcantara.comYou can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758
SponsorshipThis episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/
Credits:Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/ Katherine Taylor Pearson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktaylorpearson/
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Audio Editing: Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/
Image and Production:Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/
21 Jul 2026
#33 - The Real Cost of Data
Somewhere right now, a server is running a job that nobody remembers asking for. It spun up months ago, for a project that shipped, or maybe one that never did, and it has been quietly humming along ever since. Every hour, it costs a little. Nobody sees it. Nobody turns it off. Because turning things off was never the exciting part.
We did not fall in love with data because of the meter. We fell in love with the build. That moment an idea becomes a pipeline, a model, a dashboard that makes the whole room go quiet for a second. And the cloud made that feeling intoxicating. It told us we could have everything, right now, forever. Spin up whatever you want. Scale to the moon. Worry about the bill later.
Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador MVP Igor Alcantara, Qlik Partner and Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode brings Sidney Drill as a guest. Sidney is the Global Solutions Director at Qlik and a good part of her job is related to FinOps and to understand the real cost and value of data.
Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues.
Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/Follow Data Voyagers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavoyagersLearn more about training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training
Links Mentioned
Igor's personal website: https://igoralcantara.comYou can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758
SponsorshipThis episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/
Credits:Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/ Sidney Drill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidneydrill/
How to Report Suspected Human Trafficking Microbadge: https://courses.learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/how-to-report-suspected-human-trafficking-microbadge/
Audio Editing: Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/
Image and Production:Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/
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