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The Data Stack Show

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May 20, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: Does Data Exist if We Do Not Observe It?

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tristan Spaulding of Acceldata.
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May 18, 2022 • 58min

87: Why Is Now the Golden Age of Data Analytics? With Cindi Howson of ThoughtSpot

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Cindi’s career journey (2:36)Major shifts in analytics (6:34)Where we are in formation of the modern analytics cloud (9:07)The process of moving into the cloud (11:01)How to accelerate the digital transformation (17:29)Common patterns amongst company cultures (19:42)Data regulations affecting change (22:34)ThoughtSpot customer base (24:06)The need to know SQL (27:42)Power users leveraging the AI Insights (31:24)Who should audit technology (32:33)The ways that education is happening best (36:28)Stuck in descriptive analytics (40:43)Changes in company structure (43:54)Defining an analytics engineer (46:57)The impact on IT as a function (50:33)Enjoying data analytics (53:06)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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May 13, 2022 • 3min

The PRQL: Can You Trust AI Enabled Analytics?

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Cindi Howson of ThoughtSpot and Host of The Data Chief Podcast.
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May 11, 2022 • 59min

86: Solving the Data Quality Problem with Bigeye, Great Expectations, Metaplane, and Lightup.ai

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Guest introductions (1:02)Defining data quality (4:08)Forgetting to apply software best practices (8:33)Differentiating observability and data quality (17:53)Who should care about quality in the organization (26:55)Why this is still a valid conversation (35:44)The jurisdiction of various components (45:39)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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May 4, 2022 • 52min

85: You Can Stop Doing Data Fire Drills with Barr Moses of Monte Carlo

Barr Moses discusses her background, the challenges of data trust, and the concept of data observability. The story behind the name 'Monte Carlo' is revealed. The importance of accuracy, reliability, standardization, and automation in data management is explored. The value of standardizing processes and concepts in building a business is emphasized.
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May 2, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: Be Careful, Young Padawan, When Comparing Software Observability and Data Observability

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Barr Moses of Monte Carlo.
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Apr 29, 2022 • 29min

Data Council Week (Ep 5): A Primer on Spatial Data With Gabriel Hidalgo of Carto

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:How Gabriel got into data (1:54)What Carto is (5:28)Location data vs spatial data (6:37)Time data vs space data (7:50)System supports for spatial data (9:50)Explaining “spatial functions” (14:19)Who uses Carto and why (15:52)What’s coming for Carto (19:15)What Gabriel does at Carto (22:22)The coolest things Carto’s done (23:52)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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Apr 28, 2022 • 22min

Data Council Week (Ep 4): The Data Council Origin Story With Pete Soderling

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Pete’s start in data and Data Council (2:01)Learning more from failure (6:42)Shaping terminology and definitions (9:30)What investors look for in data technology (12:43)Working as a data engineer (16:32)Data Council takeaways (18:16)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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Apr 27, 2022 • 29min

Data Council Week (Ep 3): Product Analytics the Right Way With James Greenhill of PostHog

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:How James got started in data (2:42)What makes PostHog different (10:43)Why we need product analytics (13:40)Capturing and collecting data (15:17)Dealing with drift on a platform like PostHog (19:45)Starting from the metrics versus events (22:50)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.
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Apr 26, 2022 • 26min

Data Council Week (Ep 2): Testing and Observability Are Two Sides of the Same Coin With Ben Castleton of Great Expectations

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ben’s background and career journey (2:13)The birth of Great Expectations (5:02)Defining software engineering (9:38)Adopting open source products (13:04)Working in data versus healthcare (18:01)What's next for Great Expectations (20:29)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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