The Data Stack Show

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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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Apr 25, 2022 • 28min

Data Council Week (Ep 1): Discussing Firebolt’s Engine With Benjamin HoppDiscussing Firebolt’s Engine With Benjamin Hopp

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ben’s career journey (2:55)What makes Firebolt different (3:58)Firebolt’s data product family (7:37)Table engines and Firebolt (10:57)Ben’s favorite part of ClickHouse (12:52)The experience of building an optimizer (15:19)Where Firebolt fits into architecture (17:27)Working in the data space: to love and dislike (19:51)Coming soon in the near future (24:35)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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Apr 22, 2022 • 6min

The PRQL: A Data Council Austin Quintuple

Eric and Kostas preview an upcoming mini-series for next week featuring conversations with experts at Data Council Austin.
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Apr 21, 2022 • 3min

The Data Stack Show Live: Solving the Data Quality Problem

Don't miss our livestream event on April 27 as we talk about all things Data Quality with some of the best in the business.
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Apr 20, 2022 • 56min

84: Why Are Analytics Still So Hard? With Kaycee Lai of Promethium

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kaycee’s background and career journey (2:34)Why analytics are hard (7:28)Defining “data management” (11:47)Defining “data virtualization” (15:57)The relationship between data virtualization and ETL (18:34)Where a company should invest first (21:40)Building without a Frankenstein stack (25:19)How Promethium solves data stack issues (27:53)Giving context to data (35:14)Cataloging: background, at Promethium, future (39:29)Who uses data catalogs (48:00)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 15, 2022 • 3min

The PRQL: Does Putting All Your Data in One Place Create More Problems Than it Solves?

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kaycee Lai of Promethium.

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