Stitch Fix is moving away from data as a service to data products. The company has embedded statisticians at Stitch Fix who help with the most complex problems. They are able to tackle thorniest and hardest problems that still matter for companies like Stitch Fix. Erskine: "I think it's really hard to translate some of what they're doing into these repeatable scalable capabilities"
Have you ever built a data-related "thing" — a dashboard, a data catalog, an experimentation platform, even — only to find that, rather than having the masses race to adopt it and use it on a daily basis, it gets an initial surge in usage… and then quietly dies? That's sorta' the topic of this episode. Except that's a pretty clunky and overly narrow summary. Partly, because it's a hard topic to summarize. But, data as a product and data products are the topic, and Eric Weber, the data scientist behind the From Data to Product newsletter, joined us for a discussion that we've been trying to make happen for months. It was worth the wait! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.