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77: Standardizing Unstructured Data with Verl Allen of Claravine Mar 02, 2022

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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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The PRQL: If Everything Is Data, How Can We Make Sense of It All? Feb 25, 2022

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

76: Why a Data Team Should Limit Its Own Superpowers with Sean Halliburton of CNN Feb 23, 2022

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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)

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: How Important Is the Human Factor When Working With Data? Feb 18, 2022

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

75: How To Become a Data Engineer with Parham Parvizi of the Data Stack Academy Feb 16, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Par’s background and current role (2:48)
About Talend (6:46)
Nonlinear pathways to data engineering roles (11:08)
What a data engineer needs to be successful (17:37)
Before “data engineer” was a title (27:59)
Signs you should be a data engineer (32:39)
Curiosity and data engineering (38:31)
Defining the modern data stack (45:07)
How to get a feel for data engineering (52:52)

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: Can We Define the Role of the Data Engineer (Yet)? Feb 11, 2022

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In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Parham Parvizi of tura.io. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

74: Kostas Respawns at Starburst, is Interviewed by Eric, and Reminisces About Winamp Feb 09, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Big News: podcast hits, Kostas’ career change (2:19)
Kostas’ career start in data pipelines (4:09)
The Winamp and Napster era (11:46)
Starting an API gateway (16:56)
Observing new technology from afar (23:43)
Starting Blendo (32:38)
Problems faced in architecting the product (37:12)
Kostas’ role at Starburst (40:25)

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 Prompts a Conversation About Winamp & Quake Arena on The Data Stack Show? Feb 04, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview some exciting news coming up on episode 74 of the Data Stack Show. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

73: What a High Performing Data Team (and Stack) Looks Like with Paige Berry of Netlify Feb 02, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Paige’s career path (2:44)
Paige’s role and responsibilities at Netlify (6:38)
Sharing data insights (8:55)
Scope in the context of delivering an insight (12:39)
Defining “insight” (15:10)
Where the client journey begins (16:43)
Miscommunication because of vague terminology (20:06)
Netlify’s internal knowledge repository (23:01)
Breaking down Netlify’s hub and spoke model (30:45)
What data tools to use and when (35:21)
The metric layer and BI (44:17)
Next steps in the data space (49:42)

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: How High Performing Data Teams Put Tooling in the Background Jan 28, 2022

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This week on the PRQL, Eric and Kostas discuss tooling as they preview the upcoming show with Paige Berry of Netlify. 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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