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The Data Stack Show

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Jul 29, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: Farm to Table Abstract Mathematics

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Eric Damlier of Conexus AI.
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Jul 27, 2022 • 54min

97: How To Build an Organization-Empowering Data Team with Emilie Schario of Amplify Partners

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Emilie’s background and career journey (3:00)Hypergrowth at GitLab (5:23)Being close to the money in data (9:50)Big things taken from GitLab to Netlify (13:00)Defining “data organization” (17:53)The first roles you should hire for (22:06)Defining “analytics engineer” (23:44)One role to bridge different needs (27:26)Why data analysts are needed (30:51)How to avoid a kitchen sink of data (40:20)Data engineer archetype (45:48)Data roles crossing over (48:09)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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Jul 22, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: If You Were Building a Data Team What Would Your First Hire Be?

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Emilie Schario from Amplify Partners.
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Jul 20, 2022 • 55min

96: How To Collect and Leverage Data From the Physical World with Prateek Joshi of Plutoshift

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Prateek’s background and career journey (2:10)The lack of advanced data tools for the physical world (4:55)Dealing with data from the physical world (10:53)Stocks in the physical world (14:20)What it takes to execute this kind of project (19:05)Challenges around this infrastructure (25:56)ML tools that are useful in this environment (31:55)Physical instrumentation and environmental interaction (36:43)Current adoption of physical instrumentation (42:50)Data’s responsibility in sustainability (45:56)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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Jul 15, 2022 • 3min

The PRQL: Collecting Data in the Physical World

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Prateek Joshi.
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Jul 13, 2022 • 58min

95: How the Metrics Layer Bridges the Gap Between Data & Business with Nick Handel of Transform

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Nick’s background and career journey (2:40)What Transform does (5:53)Metrics layer vs. metrics store (8:04)Signals vs. metrics (13:24)The user of a metric layer (14:34)Using Transform within an organization (17:05)How to fuse two sources into a metric (23:54)Currently supported databases (28:46)Community engagement (31:33)Optimizing for queries, metrics, and use cases (35:33)Technology and the human factor (40:49)Managing metrics amidst fast-paced change (46:53)Out-of-the-box metrics store (49:26)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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Jul 8, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: Data Marts Aren’t Just for the Enterprise

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Nick Hansel from Transform.
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Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 3min

94: Notebooks Aren’t Just for Data Scientists With Barry McCardel of Hex Technologies

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Bary’s background and Hex (3:05)Reconciling two sides of data (9:16)Collaboration at Hex (15:10)What it takes to build something like Hex (20:02)Defining “commitment engineering” (26:01)How to begin working with Hex (30:56)Hex customers and uniqueness (40:31)The future in a world of data acquisition (45:30)Crossover between analytics and ML (51:33)Advice for data engineers (57:19)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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Jul 1, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: Have You Ever Been a Part of a Company That Has Done Analytics Really Well?

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Barry McCardel of Hex Technologies.
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Jun 29, 2022 • 1h 5min

93: There Is No Data Observability Without Lineage with Kevin Hu of Metaplane

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kevin’s background and career journey (1:54)Metaplane and the problem that is solves (6:47)The silence of data problems (9:53)Data physics work that requires more (13:35)Trusting data when bugs are present (19:12)Building a navigable experience (22:36)Developing anomaly detection (30:06)What Metaplane provides today (35:05)Metaplane’s plans for the future (37:45)Comparing Bigquery, Snowflake, and Redshift (40:56)Why data goes bad (48:15)Advice for data trust workers (59:24)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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