This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Omar Maher, the Director of Product Marketing at Parallel Domain. During the episode, the group discusses synthetic data in the context of computer vision and autonomous vehicle development. Omar shares his background in data and machine learning and explains how synthetic data can be used to generate labeled data that is fresh, clean, and useful for training and testing machine learning models. The conversation also includes the challenges of obtaining high-quality labeled data for computer vision projects, the importance of addressing edge cases, ethical implications of using synthetic data to train AI models, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Simba Khadder, the CEO of Featureform. During the episode, the group discusses feature stores, embeddings, and the impact of new technologies on the data industry. Other topics include the importance of embeddings and vector databases in the data industry, the future of machine learning and its impact on businesses, new technologies in data science and ML ops, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Rob Woollen & Stipo Josipovic from Sigma. Rob serves as the Co-Founder and CTO at Sigma while Stipo is the Director of Product Management. During the episode, Rob & Stipo discuss the origin story of Sigma in using spreadsheets and SQL to drive interface change. Topics also include the evolution of BI in recent years, how tools can overcome collaboration challenges in working with data, why analytics and BI are not solved problems, and more.