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Experimentation and A/B Testing For Modern Data Teams With Eppo - Episode 244

December 4, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Experimentation and A/B Testing For Modern Data Teams With Eppo - Episode 244

A/B testing and experimentation are the most reliable way to determine whether a change to your product will have the desired effect on your business. Unfortunately, being able to design, deploy, and validate experiments is a complex process that requires a mix of technical capacity and organizational involvement which is hard to come by. Chetan Sharma founded Eppo to provide a system that organizations of every scale can use to reduce the burden of managing experiments so that you can focus on improving your business. In this episode he...

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Data Driven Hiring For Data Professionals With Alooba - Episode 243

December 4, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Data Driven Hiring For Data Professionals With Alooba - Episode 243

Hiring data professionals is challenging for a multitude of reasons, and as with every interview process there is a potential for bias to creep in. Tim Freestone founded Alooba to provide a more stable reference point for evaluating candidates to ensure that you can make more informed comparisons based on their actual knowledge. In this episode he explains how Alooba got started, how it is being used in the interview process for data oriented roles, and how it can also provide visibility into your organizations overall data literacy. The...

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Creating A Unified Experience For The Modern Data Stack At Mozart Data - Episode 242

November 27, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Creating A Unified Experience For The Modern Data Stack At Mozart Data - Episode 242

The modern data stack has been gaining a lot of attention recently with a rapidly growing set of managed services for different stages of the data lifecycle. With all of the available options it is possible to run a scalable, production grade data platform with a small team, but there are still sharp edges and integration challenges to work through. Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman experienced these difficulties firsthand and created Mozart Data to provide a single, easy to use option for getting started with the modern data stack....

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Doing DataOps For External Data Sources As A Service at Demyst - Episode 241

November 27, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Doing DataOps For External Data Sources As A Service at Demyst - Episode 241

The data that you have access to affects the questions that you can answer. By using external data sources you can drastically increase the range of analysis that is available to your organization. The challenge comes in all of the operational aspects of finding, accessing, organizing, and serving that data. In this episode Mark Hookey discusses how he and his team at Demyst do all of the DataOps for external data sources so that you don't have to, including the systems necessary to organize and catalog the various collections...

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Exploring Processing Patterns For Streaming Data Integration In Your Data Lake - Episode 240

November 20, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Exploring Processing Patterns For Streaming Data Integration In Your Data Lake - Episode 240

One of the perennial challenges posed by data lakes is how to keep them up to date as new data is collected. With the improvements in streaming engines it is now possible to perform all of your data integration in near real time, but it can be challenging to understand the proper processing patterns to make that performant. In this episode Ori Rafael shares his experiences from Upsolver and building scalable stream processing for integrating and analyzing data, and what the tradeoffs are when coming from a batch oriented...

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Laying The Foundation Of Your Data Platform For The Era Of Big Complexity With Dagster - Episode 239

November 20, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Laying The Foundation Of Your Data Platform For The Era Of Big Complexity With Dagster - Episode 239

The technology for scaling storage and processing of data has gone through massive evolution over the past decade, leaving us with the ability to work with massive datasets at the cost of massive complexity. Nick Schrock created the Dagster framework to help tame that complexity and scale the organizational capacity for working with data. In this episode he shares the journey that he and his team at Elementl have taken to understand the state of the ecosystem and how they can provide a foundational layer for a holistic data...

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Data Quality Starts At The Source - Episode 238

November 14, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Data Quality Starts At The Source - Episode 238

The most important gauge of success for a data platform is the level of trust in the accuracy of the information that it provides. In order to build and maintain that trust it is necessary to invest in defining, monitoring, and enforcing data quality metrics. In this episode Michael Harper advocates for proactive data quality and starting with the source, rather than being reactive and having to work backwards from when a problem is found.

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Eliminate Friction In Your Data Platform Through Unified Metadata Using OpenMetadata - Episode 237

November 10, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Eliminate Friction In Your Data Platform Through Unified Metadata Using OpenMetadata - Episode 237

A significant source of friction and wasted effort in building and integrating data management systems is the fragmentation of metadata across various tools. After experiencing the impacts of fragmented metadata and previous attempts at building a solution Suresh Srinivas and Sriharsha Chintalapani created the OpenMetadata project. In this episode they share the lessons that they have learned through their previous attempts and the positive impact that a unified metadata layer had during their time at Uber. They also explain how the OpenMetadat project is aiming to be a common...

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Business Intelligence Beyond The Dashboard With ClicData - Episode 236

November 6, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Business Intelligence Beyond The Dashboard With ClicData - Episode 236

Business intelligence is often equated with a collection of dashboards that show various charts and graphs representing data for an organization. What is overlooked in that characterization is the level of complexity and effort that are required to collect and present that information, and the opportunities for providing those insights in other contexts. In this episode Telmo Silva explains how he co-founded ClicData to bring full featured business intelligence and reporting to every organization without having to build and maintain that capability on their own. This is a great...

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Exploring The Evolution And Adoption of Customer Data Platforms and Reverse ETL - Episode 235

November 5, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Exploring The Evolution And Adoption of Customer Data Platforms and Reverse ETL - Episode 235

The precursor to widespread adoption of cloud data warehouses was the creation of customer data platforms. Acting as a centralized repository of information about how your customers interact with your organization they drove a wave of analytics about how to improve products based on actual usage data. A natural outgrowth of that capability is the more recent growth of reverse ETL systems that use those analytics to feed back into the operational systems used to engage with the customer. In this episode Tejas Manohar and Rachel Bradley-Haas share the...

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