Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Prukalpa’s background and career journey (3:16)
Applying a data-driven mindset to poverty (7:21)
What Atlan does (11:53)
The makeup of a realistically functioning data team (15:25)
How to create a company’s first data team (18:13)
Defining “agile data” (22:01)
The necessity of data ops (26:36)
The minimum data stack needed (29:16)
Data team size (31:58)
Where to start when you need to make adjustments (34:51)
Collaborate with different parts of the data stack (41:27)
Defining the metadata plane (44:29)
Lessons from facing crazy data problems (48:31)

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81: Digging into Data Ops with Prukalpa Sankar of Atlan