Monday Morning Data Chat

#124 - The Rise of the Semantic Layer in the Modern Data Stack w/ Dave Mariani

May 7, 2023

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The Power of Collaborating Data Scientists and Business Analysts

01:25

The Feasibility of a Lake House Type of Architecture for Analytical Queries

01:39

Introduction

2min

The Importance of Semantics in Business Intelligence

4min

The Problem With Consistency in SQL Queries

4min

The Modern Data Stack Is Dead Crew

5min

The Semantic Layer Concept and the Data Warehouse Concept

4min

Connecting IT and the Business to Build a Center of Excellence

3min

FinOps and the Semantic Layer

4min

How to Attribute Value to Your Data

5min

The Semantic Layer and the Cloud Migration

4min

10.

The Use of a Data Catalog for Data Discovery

3min

11.

How to Manage the Tension Between More Curated Queries and Machine Learning Engineers

4min

12.

Power BI and the Semantic Layer

4min

13.

The History of BigQuery

2min

14.

The Lake House Versus Warehouse Argument

3min

15.

The Tension Between Analysts and Data Science Needs

2min

16.

The Evolution of Hadoop and Spark

2min

Dave Mariani (Founder/CTO at AtScale) joins the show to chat about the rise of the semantic layer in the modern data stack. Dave is a Silicon Valley veteran with a ton of experience building companies, amazing tech stacks, and everything in between. #semanticlayer #data #dataengineering #atscale