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Data Council Week (Ep 4): The Data Council Origin Story With Pete Soderling Apr 28, 2022

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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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Data Council Week (Ep 3): Product Analytics the Right Way With James Greenhill of PostHog Apr 27, 2022

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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)

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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Data Council Week (Ep 2): Testing and Observability Are Two Sides of the Same Coin With Ben Castleton of Great Expectations Apr 26, 2022

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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)

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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Data Council Week (Ep 1): Discussing Firebolt’s Engine With Benjamin HoppDiscussing Firebolt’s Engine With Benjamin Hopp Apr 25, 2022

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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)

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: A Data Council Austin Quintuple Apr 22, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview an upcoming mini-series for next week featuring conversations with experts at Data Council Austin. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Data Stack Show Live: Solving the Data Quality Problem Apr 21, 2022

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

84: Why Are Analytics Still So Hard? With Kaycee Lai of Promethium Apr 20, 2022

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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)

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: Does Putting All Your Data in One Place Create More Problems Than it Solves? Apr 15, 2022

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

83: Closing the Gap Between Business Analytics and Operational Analytics With Max Beauchemin of Preset Apr 13, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Max’s career journey and role today (2:56)
Hitting the limits of traditional BI (11:06)
The most influential technology (14:34)
Merging with BI and visualization (17:35)
Two thoughts on real-time (21:02)
Defining BI (24:53)
How many have actually achieved self-serve BI (29:54)
How preset.io fits in the BI architecture of today (32:36)
How to use preset.io to expose analytics (35:23)
The analytics process to power something like embedded (42:45)
Opportunities that exist right now in the BI market (44:53)
Commoditization in visualizations across business models (47:58)
What it felt like to create data tooling (51:34)

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: BI, Real-Time, and Data Tooling Apr 08, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Beauchemin of preset.io. 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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