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The Data Stack Show

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Mar 25, 2022 • 3min

The PRQL: Data Team Diversity & Maturing Data Ops

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation about data ops and diversity with Prupalka of Atlan.
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Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 16min

80: Is Reverse-ETL Just Another Data Pipeline? With Census, Hightouch, & Workato

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Panel introductions (2:23)What is driving the trend behind Reverse ETL? (5:24)The obstacles to building an internal Reverse ETL tool at scale (15:34)How to decide system management vs. user flexibility (20:14)Why previous products failed in creating this category (29:12)Increased demand and democratization of datastack skills via SaaS (42:03)Broader applications for Reverse ETL (47:29)Limitations of Reverse ETL (55:05)How user technical ability affects design and build roadmaps (58:14)What do you anticipate comes next for Reverse ETL? (1:02:45)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.
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Mar 18, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: Is Reverse ETL New or Old?

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming panel discussion on reverse ETL and the modern data stack.
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Mar 16, 2022 • 56min

79: All About Experimentation with Che Sharma of Eppo

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Che’s background and career journey (4:23)Coherence between hemispheres in the human brain (6:58)Raising Airbnb above primitive AB testing technology (8:54)Economic thinking in Airbnb’s data science practice (14:24)Dealing with multiple pipelines (16:48)Eppo’s role in recognizing statistically significant data (20:01)Defining “experiment” (23:25)Types of experiments (25:57)The workflow journey (27:18)Dealing with metric silos (34:21)Why we still need to innovate today (37:03)Where experimentation can be used (39:36)How big a sample size should be (43:29)How to self-educate to get the maximum value (45:39)Bridging the gap between data engineers and data scientists (48:14)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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Mar 11, 2022 • 3min

The PRQL: Is A/B Testing Only Relevant for B2C?

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Che Sharma of geteppo.com.
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Mar 9, 2022 • 1h 6min

78: The Etymology of Reverse ETL & Why It’s a Key Piece Of The Modern Data Stack with Boris Jabes of Census

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Boris’ background career journey (2:32)The origins of “reverse ETL” (6:39)Reverse Fivetran (16:35)Product as an experience (22:41)Fivetran users vs Census users (24:14)How to add value to a data dump (26:56)Ways companies are creating IP (33:48)The cascade effect of the modern data stack (37:56)Defining “data federation” (43:51)Lessons from building a product (49:10)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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Mar 4, 2022 • 3min

The PRQL: Reverse ETL and the Distinction Between Operation vs Analysis on Data

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Borris Jabes of Census.
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Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 1min

77: Standardizing Unstructured Data with Verl Allen of Claravine

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Verl’s career journey (2:46)M&A data evaluation criteria (7:12)What Claravine does (10:48)The breadth of data (15:03)Adding to content and advertising data (18:22)How Claravine standardizes data (23:53)Designing a data model (25:40)The underlying technologies of building a product (33:43)The main consumer (35:02)Maintaining quality (39:06)Helping solidify definitions (41:37)Implementing Claravine’s model across various companies (44:54)Internal changes affect on the model (46:47)Connection brought about by structure (49:19)Applying unstructured context to structured stamping (52:36)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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Feb 25, 2022 • 6min

The PRQL: If Everything Is Data, How Can We Make Sense of It All?

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Verl Allen of Claravine.
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Feb 23, 2022 • 52min

76: Why a Data Team Should Limit Its Own Superpowers with Sean Halliburton of CNN

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Sean’s career journey (3:27)Optimization and localized testing results (7:49)Denying potential access to more data (13:46)Other dimensions data has (18:32)The other side of capturing events (20:55)Data equivalent of API contracts (25:03)SDK restrictiveness for developers (27:40)How to know if you’re still sending the right data (30:38)Debugging that starts in a client of a mobile app (36:08)Communicating about data (38:36)The next phase of tooling (41:49)Advice for aspiring managers (45:21)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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