This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Katie Bauer, the Head of Data at GlossGenius. During the episode, Katie shares her journey in data science, starting from academia to working in various industries including natural language search, social media, and now the beauty and salon space. She discusses the evolution of the data scientist role, the challenges faced in different companies, and the importance of understanding the specific needs of different business models. She also highlights the potential of using data products to provide value back to businesses, the importance of having an analytics engineer in an organization, and more. 

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Tasso Argyros, the Founder & CEO of ActionIQ. During the episode, Tasso shares his journey from Stanford to founding ActionIQ. He discusses the evolution of database architecture, the challenges of handling customer data at scale, and the importance of making data accessible to business users. Tasso also discusses his experience selling MySpace as his first customer and how ActionIQ bridges the gap between data engineering and marketing. He emphasizes the importance of customer interaction, understanding business user needs, creating a flexible, workload-agnostic infrastructure, the future of customer data platforms, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Paolo Platter, Zhamak Dehghani, and Melissa Logan about the concept of data mesh, a complex topic that encompasses both technical and organizational aspects. During this conversation, the group discusses the transition from a monolithic IT team to a data mesh model, the implementation and adoption of data mesh, and the concept of data products within the data mesh framework. The episode emphasizes the importance of empowering domain practitioners and building platforms that support the creation and sharing of data products to enable the implementation of data mesh, and more.