Keep Your Data Lake from Becoming a Data Swamp

05/17/22 • 20 min

In this episode, we bring Calli Rogers, director in our data and analytics practice, back by popular demand. Listen in as we dig deeper into metadata-driven ingestion and discuss topics such as:

Why Python is the preferred language in the analytics space.
The importance of having a full-time role in data governance.
Trivia: Why is our data butler named Alfred?

In this episode, we bring Calli Rogers, director in our data and analytics practice, back by popular demand. Listen in as we dig deeper into metadata-driven ingestion and discuss topics such as:

Why Python is the preferred language in the analytics space.
The importance of having a full-time role in data governance.
Trivia: Why is our data butler named Alfred?

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CapTech Trends - Keep Your Data Lake from Becoming a Data Swamp

Transcript

Vinnie

Hello, and welcome back to the CapTech Trends podcast. Back by popular demand we have Calli. One of the best parts of my job is when I get to work with people who are really passionate about what they do both for a living with inside projects and people who are very intelligent and who have knowledge and domain expertise that I don't have. That I can learn from and Calli is a great example of all three of those things. As I said, we had a lot of requests for her to come back on t