The PRQL: Modern Analytics Using Common Paradigms, Featuring Rob Woollen & Stipo Josipovic of Sigma

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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