Episode 143:

Collaborative Data Analytics on the Data Warehouse, featuring Rob Woollen & Stipo Josipovic of Sigma

June 21, 2023

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.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Stipo and Rob’s background in data (2:43)
  • What is Sigma? (7:46)
  • Takeaways from building analytics products in-house (9:16)
  • Sigma’s approach to datastore interface (11:32)
  • Why analytics and BI are still not a solved problem (15:50)
  • Combining SQL and spreadsheets for useful interface (23:17)
  • The evolution of BI to today (29:40)
  • Overcoming the challenges of collaboration in working with data (33:17)
  • Creating operational coding that humans can understand (46:50)
  • The future of BI (54:00)
  • Cloud’s impact on BI and analytics (1:00:04)
  • The value of getting close to the data for analytics (1:02:21)
  • Final thoughts and takeaways (1:08:45)

 

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