The Data Stack Show
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.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 482
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
86: Solving the Data Quality Problem with Bigeye, Great Expectations, Metaplane, and Lightup.ai
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Guest introductions (1:02)
- Defining data quality (4:08)
- Forgetting to apply software best practices (8:33)
- Differentiating observability and data quality…
00:58:40 |
Wed 11 May 2022
85: You Can Stop Doing Data Fire Drills with Barr Moses of Monte Carlo
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Barr’s background and career journey (2:12)
- Trust: a technical or human problem? (9:47)
- Behind the name “Monte Carlo” (15:41)
- Defining data accuracy and …
00:51:39 |
Wed 04 May 2022
The PRQL: Be Careful, Young Padawan, When Comparing Software Observability and Data Observability
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Barr Moses of Monte Carlo.
00:04:04 |
Mon 02 May 2022
Data Council Week (Ep 5): A Primer on Spatial Data With Gabriel Hidalgo of Carto
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- How Gabriel got into data (1:54)
- What Carto is (5:28)
- Location data vs spatial data (6:37)
- Time data vs space data (7:50)
- System supports for spatial data…
00:28:59 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Data Council Week (Ep 4): The Data Council Origin Story With Pete Soderling
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…
00:21:31 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
Data Council Week (Ep 3): Product Analytics the Right Way With James Greenhill of PostHog
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)
- Deal…
00:29:27 |
Wed 27 Apr 2022
Data Council Week (Ep 2): Testing and Observability Are Two Sides of the Same Coin With Ben Castleton of Great Expectations
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:…
00:26:00 |
Tue 26 Apr 2022
Data Council Week (Ep 1): Discussing Firebolt’s Engine With Benjamin HoppDiscussing Firebolt’s Engine With Benjamin Hopp
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 p…
00:28:23 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
The PRQL: A Data Council Austin Quintuple
Eric and Kostas preview an upcoming mini-series for next week featuring conversations with experts at Data Council Austin.
00:05:37 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
The Data Stack Show Live: Solving the Data Quality Problem
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.
00:02:56 |
Thu 21 Apr 2022
84: Why Are Analytics Still So Hard? With Kaycee Lai of Promethium
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 …
00:56:00 |
Wed 20 Apr 2022
The PRQL: Does Putting All Your Data in One Place Create More Problems Than it Solves?
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kaycee Lai of Promethium.
00:03:09 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
83: Closing the Gap Between Business Analytics and Operational Analytics With Max Beauchemin of Preset
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 visua…
00:56:59 |
Wed 13 Apr 2022
The PRQL: BI, Real-Time, and Data Tooling
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Beauchemin of preset.io.
00:04:25 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
82: Databases: The Fun Never Stops with Robert Hodges of Altinity
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Robert’s background and career journey (2:21)
- How studying languages influences database work (5:13)
- Why Robert has been working with databases for 40+ …
01:01:58 |
Wed 06 Apr 2022
The PRQL: What Inspires Continued Innovation in Databases?
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Robert Hodges of Altinity.
00:03:34 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
81: Digging into Data Ops with Prukalpa Sankar of Atlan
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Prukalpa’s background and career journey (3:16)
- Applying a data-driven mindset to poverty (7:21)
- What Atlan does (11:53)
- The makeup of a realistically fu…
00:55:31 |
Wed 30 Mar 2022
The PRQL: Data Team Diversity & Maturing Data Ops
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation about data ops and diversity with Prupalka of Atlan.
00:03:14 |
Fri 25 Mar 2022
80: Is Reverse-ETL Just Another Data Pipeline? With Census, Hightouch, & Workato
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Panel introductions (2:23)
- What is driving the trend behind Reverse ETL? (5:24)
- The obstacles to building an internal Reverse ETL tool at scale (15:34)
- H…
01:15:51 |
Wed 23 Mar 2022
The PRQL: Is Reverse ETL New or Old?
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming panel discussion on reverse ETL and the modern data stack.
00:03:41 |
Fri 18 Mar 2022
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