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The Data Stack Show

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Oct 26, 2022 • 58min

110: How Can Data Discovery Help You Understand Your Data? Featuring Shinji Kim of Select Star

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Shinji’s background and career journey (3:35)Defining “data discovery” (6:03)The best conditions to use Select Star (8:45)Where Select Star fits on the data spectrum (13:38)Why Select Star is needed (17:35)How Select Star uses metadata (21:02)Exposing data queries (27:04)Composing queries into metadata (33:27)Automating BI tools (37:28)Limits to data governance (41:39)Maintaining economies of scale (48:56)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.
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Oct 24, 2022 • 16min

Shop Talk: Why Are There So Many Flavors of Databases?

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop about the wide world of databases.
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Oct 21, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: What is Data Discovery?

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Shinji Kim of Select Star.
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Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 1min

109: How Does Headless Business Intelligence Work? Featuring Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov of Cube Dev

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:The context of Headless BI (3:31)What Cube Dev does (9:24)How Headless BI works with other tools (13:03)An analysis of LookML (18:04)User interaction with Cube Dev (23:40)Who manages data artifacts (25:22)Taking care of the developer experience (30:37)Levels of performance (30:37)Artyom and Pavel’s background and career journey (35:47)Why you should use Cube Dev (43:38)Roles within a data organization (48:55)How Cube Dev impacts visualization (53:35)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..
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Oct 17, 2022 • 20min

Shop Talk: Will the Future of the Customer Data Platform Include a Shared Logic Layer?

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data.
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Oct 14, 2022 • 5min

The PRQL: What Comes to Mind When You Think of ‘Headless’?

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Artyom Keydunov & Pavel Tiunov of CubeJS.
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Oct 12, 2022 • 1h

108: You Can’t Separate Data Reliability From Workflow with Gleb Mezhanskiy of Datafold

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Gleb’s background and career journey (2:51)The adoption problems (10:53)How Datafold solves these problems (18:08)The vision for Datafold (26:27)Incorporating Datafold as a data engineer (38:53)The importance of the data engineer (42:12)Something to keep in mind when designing data tools (46:46)Implementing new technology into your company (53:18) 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..
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Oct 10, 2022 • 18min

Shop Talk: Is It Possible for Excel To Die?

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data.
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Oct 7, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: Are Marketers the Worst Data Quality Offenders?

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Gleb Mezhanskiy of Datafold.
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Oct 5, 2022 • 1h 3min

107: Building Modern Data Teams with dbt Labs, REI, and Robinhood

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Introducing our guests (3:05)Defining “data team” (4:40)How data teams emerge and evolve (14:11)The need that forces the creation of a data team (21:12)The backbone of the data team (26:23)Building a career within a data team (36:39)Advice for new data team managers (47:35)Question and answer time (52:38)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..

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