Episode 67:

Now is the Time to Think About Data Quality with Manu Bansal of Lightup Data

December 22, 2021

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talked with Manu Bansal, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightup Data. During the episode, Manu helps to define data quality, explains how to design tests for quality, and describes what Lightup is doing to help businesses build solutions to test and use your data.

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Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

 

  • Manu’s career background and describing Lightup (2:31)
  • Why traditional tools don’t work for modern data problems (6:04)
  • How a data lake differs from a data warehouse (11:35)
  • Defining data quality (14:07)
  • The business impact of solving and applying data quality (31:36)
  • Constructing a healthy financial view on the impact of data (41:09)
  • How to work with unstructured data in a meaningful way (47:44)

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