

The Data Stack Show
Rudderstack
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.
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Jul 17, 2023 • 4min
The PRQL: Cloud Resource Management Is a Data Problem Featuring Lars Kamp of Resoto
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Lars Kamp of Resoto.

Jul 12, 2023 • 52min
146: What Is a Customer Data Platform? Featuring Soumyadeb Mitra of Rudderstack
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Soumyadeb’s background and journey in data (5:49)Defining customer data (8:10)The complexity of customer data collection (10:04)What is a CDP and how it is properly deployed (17:12)Bridging the gap of data collection and useful analytics for marketing (21:46)How Rudderstack translates data and the new profile feature (25:30)The foundations of data in building a 360 degree customer profile (30:30)Solutions for the intersection between engineering and business users (34:35)How AI and other future technologies will impact data (41:14)Final thoughts and takeaways (46:30)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.

Jul 10, 2023 • 4min
The PRQL: Building Data Products for Multiple Personas with Soumyadeb Mitra of Rudderstack
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Soumyadeb Mitra of Rudderstack.

Jul 5, 2023 • 59min
145: What is Synthetic Data? Featuring Omar Maher of Parallel Domain

Jul 3, 2023 • 6min
The PRQL: Synthetic Data and Self Driving Cars with Omar Maher of Parallel Domain
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.

Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 12min
144: Explaining Features, Embeddings, and the Difference Between ML and AI with Simba Khadder of Featureform
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Simba’s background in the data space (3:05)Subscription intelligence (6:41)ML and Distributed Systems (9:09)The Brutal Subscription Industry (12:31)Serendipity in Recommender Systems (16:31)Subscription as a Strategy (20:47)Customizing Content for Subscribers (22:19)Creating User Embeddings (25:53)Building Featureform (28:01)Embedding Projections (32:47)Spaces and similarity (35:53)User embeddings and transformer models (38:22)Vector Databases for AI/ML (45:05)Orchestrating Transformations in Featureform (51:00)Impact of new technologies on feature stores (56:17)Embeddings and the future of ML (59:20)The gap between ML and business logic (1:02:26)Final thoughts and takeaways (1:06:37)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.

Jun 26, 2023 • 5min
The PRQL: Feature Stores and ML Ops with Simba Khadder of Featureform
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Simba Khadder of Featureform.

Jun 23, 2023 • 20min
Shop Talk: Accountability and Opportunity for AI
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.

Jun 21, 2023 • 1h 15min
143: Collaborative Data Analytics on the Data Warehouse, featuring Rob Woollen & Stipo Josipovic of Sigma
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Stipo and Rob’s background in data (2:43)What is Sigma? (7:46)Takeaways from building analytics products in-house (9:16)Sigma’s approach to datastore interface (11:32)Why analytics and BI are still not a solved problem (15:50)Combining SQL and spreadsheets for useful interface (23:17)The evolution of BI to today (29:40)Overcoming the challenges of collaboration in working with data (33:17)Creating operational coding that humans can understand (46:50)The future of BI (54:00)Cloud’s impact on BI and analytics (1:00:04)The value of getting close to the data for analytics (1:02:21)Final thoughts and takeaways (1:08:45)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.

Jun 19, 2023 • 6min
The PRQL: Modern Analytics Using Common Paradigms, Featuring Rob Woollen & Stipo Josipovic of Sigma
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rob Woollen & Stipo Josipovic of Sigma.