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Enabling Version Controlled Data Collaboration With TerminusDB - Episode 167

January 11, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Enabling Version Controlled Data Collaboration With TerminusDB - Episode 167

As data professionals we have a number of tools available for storing, processing, and analyzing data. We also have tools for collaborating on software and analysis, but collaborating on data is still an underserved capability. Gavin Mendel-Gleason encountered this problem first hand while working on the Sesshat databank, leading him to create TerminusDB and TerminusHub. In this episode he explains how the TerminusDB system is architected to provide a versioned graph storage engine that allows for branching and merging of data sets, how that opens up new possibilities for...

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Bringing Feature Stores and MLOps to the Enterprise At Tecton - Episode 166

January 5, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Bringing Feature Stores and MLOps to the Enterprise At Tecton - Episode 166

As more organizations are gaining experience with data management and incorporating analytics into their decision making, their next move is to adopt machine learning. In order to make those efforts sustainable, the core capability they need is for data scientists and analysts to be able to build and deploy features in a self service manner. As a result the feature store is becoming a required piece of the data platform. To fill that need Kevin Stumpf and the team at Tecton are building an enterprise feature store as a...

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Off The Shelf Data Governance With Satori - Episode 165

December 28, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Off The Shelf Data Governance With Satori - Episode 165

One of the core responsibilities of data engineers is to manage the security of the information that they process. The team at Satori has a background in cybersecurity and they are using the lessons that they learned in that field to address the challenge of access control and auditing for data governance. In this episode co-founder and CTO Yoav Cohen explains how the Satori platform provides a proxy layer for your data, the challenges of managing security across disparate storage systems, and their approach to building a dynamic data...

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Low Friction Data Governance With Immuta - Episode 164

December 21, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Low Friction Data Governance With Immuta - Episode 164

Data governance is a term that encompasses a wide range of responsibilities, both technical and process oriented. One of the more complex aspects is that of access control to the data assets that an organization is responsible for managing. The team at Immuta has built a platform that aims to tackle that problem in a flexible and maintainable fashion so that data teams can easily integrate authorization, data masking, and privacy enhancing technologies into their data infrastructure. In this episode Steve Touw and Stephen Bailey share what they have...

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Building A Self Service Data Platform For Alternative Data Analytics At YipitData - Episode 163

December 15, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Building A Self Service Data Platform For Alternative Data Analytics At YipitData - Episode 163

As a data engineer you're familiar with the process of collecting data from databases, customer data platforms, APIs, etc. At YipitData they rely on a variety of alternative data sources to inform investment decisions by hedge funds and businesses. In this episode Andrew Gross, Bobby Muldoon, and Anup Segu describe the self service data platform that they have built to allow data analysts to own the end-to-end delivery of data projects and how that has allowed them to scale their output. They share the journey that they went through...

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Proven Patterns For Building Successful Data Teams - Episode 162

December 7, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Proven Patterns For Building Successful Data Teams - Episode 162

Building data products are complicated by the fact that there are so many different stakeholders with competing goals and priorities. It is also challenging because of the number of roles and capabilities that are necessary to go from idea to delivery. Different organizations have tried a multitude of organizational strategies to improve the success rate of these data teams with varying levels of success. In this episode Jesse Anderson shares the lessons that he has learned while working with dozens of businesses across industries to determine the team structures...

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Streaming Data Integration Without The Code at Equalum - Episode 161

November 30, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Streaming Data Integration Without The Code at Equalum - Episode 161

The first stage of every good pipeline is to perform data integration. With the increasing pace of change and the need for up to date analytics the need to integrate that data in near real time is growing. With the improvements and increased variety of options for streaming data engines and improved tools for change data capture it is possible for data teams to make that goal a reality. However, despite all of the tools and managed distributions of those streaming engines it is still a challenge to build...

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Keeping A Bigeye On The Data Quality Market - Episode 160

November 23, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Keeping A Bigeye On The Data Quality Market - Episode 160

One of the oldest aphorisms about data is "garbage in, garbage out", which is why the current boom in data quality solutions is no surprise. With the growth in projects, platforms, and services that aim to help you establish and maintain control of the health and reliability of your data pipelines it can be overwhelming to stay up to date with how they all compare. In this episode Egor Gryaznov, CTO of Bigeye, joins the show to explore the landscape of data quality companies, the general strategies that they...

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Self Service Data Management From Ingest To Insights With Isima - Episode 159

November 17, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Self Service Data Management From Ingest To Insights With Isima - Episode 159

The core mission of data engineers is to provide the business with a way to ask and answer questions of their data. This often takes the form of business intelligence dashboards, machine learning models, or APIs on top of a cleaned and curated data set. Despite the rapid progression of impressive tools and products built to fulfill this mission, it is still an uphill battle to tie everything together into a cohesive and reliable platform. At Isima they decided to reimagine the entire ecosystem from the ground up and...

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Building A Cost Effective Data Catalog With Tree Schema - Episode 158

November 10, 2020 tmacey Comments Off on Building A Cost Effective Data Catalog With Tree Schema - Episode 158

A data catalog is a critical piece of infrastructure for any organization who wants to build analytics products, whether internal or external. While there are a number of platforms available for building that catalog, many of them are either difficult to deploy and integrate, or expensive to use at scale. In this episode Grant Seward explains how he built Tree Schema to be an easy to use and cost effective option for organizations to build their data catalogs. He also shares the internal architecture, how he approached the design...

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