Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Chad’s background and journey in data (0:46)
- Importance of Data Supply Chain (2:19)
- Challenges with Modern Data Stack (3:28)
- Comparing Data Supply Chain to Real-world Supply Chains (4:49)
- Overview of Gable.ai (8:05)
- Rethinking Data Catalogs (11:42)
- New Ideas for Managing Data (15:16)
- Data Discovery and Governance Challenges (18:51)
- Static Code Analysis and AI Impact on Data (24:55)
- Creating Contracts and Defining Data Lineage (27:31)
- Data Quality Issues and Upstream Problems (32:32)
- Challenges with Third-Party Vendors and External Data (34:29)
- Incentivizing Engineers for Data Quality (40:28)
- Feedback Loops and Actionability in Data Catalogs (45:30)
- Missing metadata (48:57)
- Role of AI in data semantics (50:27)
- Data as a product (54:26)
- Slowing down to go faster (57:38)
- Quantifying the cost of data changes (1:01:24)
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