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.…

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 a…

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…

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…

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 infrastructu…

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…

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 Da…

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…

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 comba…

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…

What’s the secret for D3’s long-time success? Mike Bostock, the creator of D3 shares the reasons for his data visualization tool’s longevity, and why it won the 10-year Test-of-Time award from the IEEE. Mike goes deep on D3 and Observable, which he also founded, and talks about all things visualization with The Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Je…

Can Kafka be my database? Jun Rao, a co-founder at Confluent, the rocket-ship startup behind Apache Kafka®, answers this question and more in a round of database bingo with The Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer. Rao discusses best use cases for Kafka, both traditional and newer applications, along with how to use SQL and variations fo…

What data orchestration platform is downloaded more than 10,000 times a day? Data scientist Steven Hillion joins The Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer to give the inside story on Apache Airflow, used by data scientists and data engineers around the world. Apache Airflow is managed commercially by Astronomer.io, where Hillion is Head o…

What does metadata really mean? Data scientist Shirshanka Das joins The Data Wranglers, Joe Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer and Adam Wilson, to re-define metadata. Das discusses his innovative work in data, including a decade at LinkedIn where he was part of a now-legendary data cabal that coined the term “data science” and built the open-source engineer…

What’s a trumpet have to do with data management? Meet co-hosts Joe Hellerstein and Jeff Heer in this first episode of The Data Wranglers, where they discuss and riff on data engineering, analytics, data science and all things modern data management. Joe and Jeff share their personal histories with modern data management and we learn things about t…

Meet The Data Wranglers, with co-hosts Joe Hellerstein, Jeff Heer and their data wrangling expert guests. On Thursdays, The Data Wranglers will discuss and riff on data engineering, analytics, data science and all things modern data management. Don’t be surprised if Adam Wilson joins from time to time with insights on all things data. A Trifacta Po…