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104: A Decade of Change in the Data Space with Benn Stancil of Mode Sep 14, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Benn’s background and career journey (2:28)
The problem Benn sought to solve (4:48)
Data engineering a decade ago (9:58)
Technology inside vs. outside Silicon Valley (18:11)
What’s next for data (24:42)
Mode’s evolution and journey (29:31)
Challenges of getting enough context to create (39:21)
Current trends that won’t see long-term benefits (48:44)

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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The PRQL: What Does 10 Years in the Data Space Give You? Sep 09, 2022

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In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Benn Stancil of Mode. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

103: Everyone Is Invited to the Data Lakehouse with Kyle Weller of Onehouse.ai Sep 07, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Kyle’s background and career journey (2:38)
Unique challenges in building data engineering products (9:33)
The problem set Databricks resolves (13:46)
About Onehouse (17:15)
From Microsoft to Onehouse (20:59)
Why there’s so much distance between data powers (24:45)
Why the data lake is not enough (30:15)
Who should have a lake house (39:03)
Why we have all three data platforms (43:53)
How to step into the data lake house world (49:48)

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.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PRQL: Who Really Needs To Know How a DBMS Works? Sep 02, 2022

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In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kyle Weller of Onehouse.ai. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

102: Building Pinot for Real-Time, Interactive User Analytics with Kishore Gopalakrishna of StarTree Aug 31, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Kishore’s background and career journey (2:30)
Internal analytics versus user-facing analytics (3:49)
New ways of thinking about analytics (8:06)
What makes Pinot different (13:45)
How Pinot transforms systems (21:53)
Understanding the data landscape (32:40)
The Pinot user experience (36:27)
Something exciting about StarTree (40:05)
When you should adopt this technology (43:15)

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.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PRQL: Data Warehouses on Steroids Aug 26, 2022

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In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kishore Gopalakrishna of StarTree. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

101: The Future of Machine Learning with Willen Pienaar of Tecton and Tristan Zajonc of Continual Aug 24, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

When is it right to use ML? (5:22)
ML business models (10:21)
Significant changes in delivering ML (19:07)
Why ML is different (25:19)
SQL becoming more important (34:39)
Graduating from SQL-based to real-time (37:22)
Space for a new role (45:11)
State-of-the-art models (49:03)
The most exciting thing in the ML space (53:59)
Open source in ML (56:39)

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.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PRQL: Can Machine Learning Be Commoditized? Aug 19, 2022

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In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming live stream episode featuring Willem Pienaar of Tecton and Tristan Zajonc of Continual. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

100: Data Quality Is Relative to Purpose with James Campbell of Superconductive Aug 17, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

James’ role at Great Expectations (2:33)
What Great Expectations does (5:49)
How Great Expectations approaches data quality (7:01)
Why a data engineer should use Great Expectations (16:41)
Defining “data quality” (19:16)
Translating expectations from one domain to the other (27:00)
Community around Great Expectations (30:59)
The user experience (33:41)
Something exciting on the horizon (40:27)
Interacting with marketers in a non-technical way (43:57)

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.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PRQL: What’s the Hardest Part About Data Quality? Aug 12, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with James Campbell at Superconductive. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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