The Data Stack Show

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Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 4min

157: From Search Engine to Answer Engine Using Grounded Generative AI, Featuring Amr Awadallah of Vectara

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Amr’s extensive background in data (3:23)The evolution of neural networks (9:21)The role of supervised learning in AI (11:17)Explaining Vectara (13:07)Papers that laid the foundation for AI (15:02)Contextualized translation and personalization (20:07)Ease of use and answer-based search (25:01)AI and potential liabilities (35:54)Minimizing difficulties in large language models (36:43)The process of extracting documents in multidimensional space (44:47)Summarization process (46:33)The danger of humans misusing technology (54:59)Final thoughts and takeaways (57:12)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 25, 2023 • 5min

The PRQL: How Can Large Language Models Revolutionize Decision-Making? Featuring Amr Awadallah of Vectara

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Amr Awadallah of Vectara. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 20, 2023 • 55min

156: Simple, Performant, Cost-effective Data Streaming with Alex Gallego of Redpanda Data

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Alex’s background in the data space and the creation of Redpanda (4:23)The cost and complexity of streaming (11:07)The evolution of storage with Kafka (12:04)The distinction between streaming technologies (15:10)Simplicity as a Core Design Principle (27:03)Cost Efficiency in a Cloud Native Era (30:44)Removing complexity with Redpanda (34:21)Migrations and compatibility with Redpanda (40:35)The Future of Redpanda (43:44)The Story Behind Redpanda (46:45)Final thoughts and takeaways (50:25)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 18, 2023 • 4min

The PRQL: Redpanda: Revolutionizing Streaming Systems and Challenging the Kafka Status Quo with Alex Gallego

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Alex Gallego of Redpanda. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 1min

155: Bringing Innovation to Enterprise Resource Planning with Emilie Schario of Turbine

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Emilie’s background and journey in data (3:42)The problem of three-way match (8:56)Operational workflows and how data stacks solve them (13:16)Turbine’s solution as a lightweight ERP (14:05)Workflows and analytics (14:59)Consolidating information into helpful application (27:41)Challenges in operational workflows (32:19)Friction and hurdles in ERP usage (39:28)A solution for purchase order management (40:47)Turbine’s focus and limitations (45:26)Building a software that gets out of the way (52:51)Final thoughts and takeaways (54:25)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 11, 2023 • 7min

The PRQL: Making ERP Systems More User-Friendly with Emilie Schario of Turbine

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Emilie Schario of Turbine. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 3min

154: Making Cross-Company Data Exchange Easy with Pardis Noorzad of General Folders

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Pardis’ background and journey in data (3:24)AI before the hype (8:37)Founding General Folders (12:36)Data collaboration challenges (15:31)Examples of data sharing (17:40)Data transfer in various industries (22:16)Defining the transfer problem (28:30)The demand for scalable solutions (32:06)Data transfer and model exposition (41:02)Data governance and API (43:23)Final thoughts and takeaways (56:48)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 4, 2023 • 6min

The PRQL: Simplifying Data Collaboration with Pardis Noorzad of General Folders

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Pardis Noorzad of General Folders. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Aug 30, 2023 • 60min

153: The Future of Data Science Notebooks with Jakub Jurových of Deepnote

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Jakub’s journey into data and working with notebooks (2:43)Overview of Deepnote and its features (7:22)Notebook 1.0 and 2.0 (14:04)Notebook 3.0 and its potential impact (15:46)The need for collaboration across organizations (17:16)Real-time, asynchronous, and organizational collaboration (28:02)Challenges to collaboration (32:03)Notebooks as a universal computational medium (36:14)The rise of exploratory programming (41:40)The power of natural language interface (43:04)The evolving grammar of using notebooks (47:02)Final thoughts and takeaways (55:50)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Aug 28, 2023 • 4min

The PRQL: Exploring the Evolution of Notebooks with Jakub Jurových of Deepnote

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Jakub Jurových of Deepnote. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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