The Data Wranglers

Mar 03 2022 33
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Join co-hosts Joe Hellerstein, Jeff Heer and their expert guest wranglers on Thursdays for witty dissections on data engineering and all things modern data management. The Data Wranglers brings you insights, deep dives and short takes on anything from scrubbing to data analysis. If you’re a pro in the data biz whether you’re a visualizer, engineer or a newbie learning about it as a student, The Data Wranglers will bring you information and insights that’ll make you do better with your data and sound smarter at parties. Bring your fire for data and burning questions to this unscripted, unplugged, fun and spirited conversation. A Trifacta Podcast. #TheDataWranglers Visit www.Trifacta.com/podcast for more info.

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Season Finale – Data Minds Tell How They Earned It

Mar 03 2022 55 mins  
In the season finale, Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer tell all about what it takes to wrangle a venture into success. Trifacta CEO Adam Wilson talks with them about how they did it, how to turn a vision into reality and how to win data by design. For more data insights, listen to #TheDataWranglers.

Machine Learning with Carlos Guestrin

Feb 24 2022 40 mins  
What keeps an Apple developer up at night? Meet Carlos Guestrin -- decorated professor of Computer Science at Stanford and former Senior Director of AI and Machine Learning at Apple. Carlos talks with Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer about the birth of the AI-driven Face ID and other machine-learning features he and his team created at Apple. He also talks about dist

Cloud Databases with Sailesh Krishnamurthy

Feb 10 2022 34 mins  
What are the fastest-growing cloud databases, and why? Sailesh Krishnamurthy talks with Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer about the massive cloud databases he has managed, including his extensive work at Google where he engineers three huge relational cloud databases that support Google’s services such as YouTube, photos, transactions and ads. And, hear insights fro

Better Data Science in Marketing with Zack Pike

Feb 03 2022 41 mins  
Would you save $50 billion -- if you had it? Data can help to reduce marketing waste. Zack Pike, founder of Magnetic Data Science, and veteran of the marketing analytics industry, talks to Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer about using data science to help marketers reduce waste and uncertainty in their campaigns. #TheDataWranglers

The Modern Data Stack with Sarah Catanzaro

Jan 27 2022 41 mins  
How does data relate to pirates? Sarah Catanzaro, a partner at Amplify Partners, talks to Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer about what’s new and exciting in the modern data stack, machine learning and observable data. Her work has focused on startups that bring technological advances in machine intelligence and enterprise infrastructure to solve real-world problems.

Data Science with DJ Patil

Jan 20 2022 53 mins  
How do you unleash the power of data to benefit all Americans? DJ Patil became the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist under President Obama, and discusses with The Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer how he helped to define what data science means and does for government, public policy and all Americans. Perhaps one of the most influential data scientists in the world, DJ

Tidy Data with Hadley Wickham

Jan 13 2022 39 mins  
What is the Tidyverse and why is it important? Hadley Wickham is a leading data scientist and advocate for improving data science with tidy data and data hygiene. He’s the Chief Scientist at RStudio and an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of Oakland, Stanford University and Rice University. Join the Tidyverse discussion with The Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and

Data Trends and Fragmentation with Bill Hostmann

Jan 06 2022 33 mins  
How will the pendulum swing in data engineering? Join Bill Hostmann, senior research fellow at Dresner Advisory Services, and Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer as they talk about fragmentation in the data industry and how to improve the performance of distributed database design. #TheDataWranglers

2021 The Year in Data

Dec 22 2021 23 mins  
What’s above the cloud? Learn what’s hot and what’s not, as The Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer look back at the year in data. Facebook went down, SQL is back, and Hadoop is dead. What’s up with Spark, and are streaming databases finally real? The cloud continues to rise, there are issues in data ethics, and data is helping to combat Covid-19. And then there

Data with a Purpose with Moritz Stefaner

Dec 16 2021 37 mins  
Meet Moritz Stefaner, a data designer who uses data for storytelling and who helped design the official German Covid-19 vaccine data dashboard. Moritz tells The Data Wranglers -- Jeffrey Heer and Adam Wilson -- how he creates a character from a dataset to give it emotional meaning and talks about the Covid vaccine clock he created. And, he dives into his data visualizations for tra