Episode 94:

Notebooks Aren’t Just for Data Scientists with Barry McCardel of Hex Technologies

July 6, 2022

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Barry McCardel, co-founder and CEO of Hex Technologies. During the episode, Barry discusses analytics and ML, “commitment engineering,” and how Hex solves issues in the data world today.

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Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Bary’s background and Hex (3:05)
  • Reconciling two sides of data (9:16)
  • Collaboration at Hex (15:10)
  • What it takes to build something like Hex (20:02)
  • Defining “commitment engineering” (26:01)
  • How to begin working with Hex (30:56)
  • Hex customers and uniqueness (40:31)
  • The future in a world of data acquisition (45:30)
  • Crossover between analytics and ML (51:33)
  • Advice for data engineers (57:19)

 

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