Zero Prime Podcast - E04: Data Catalogs w/ Shinji Kim

E04: Data Catalogs w/ Shinji Kim

11/07/22 • 26 min

Join us for an interview with Shinji Kim, the CEO and founder of Select Star. She walks us through the data catalog landscape, where Select Star sits within that, how the startup thinks about data integration, and lastly she outlines how the data governance ecosystem is changing. Check it out!
Highlights:
[0:45]: Starting a company as an engineer (Concord Systems)
[6:15]: The connection between Select Star and Concord Systems
[10:57]: Controlling the inception of data so we know what ends up in the data lake
[14:05]: Data catalog market landscape
[17:55]: What Select Star does
[20:03]: Select Star’s approach to data integration
[21:55]: How the data governance ecosystem is changing

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E03: Data Science in Production Systems w/ Joey Gonzalez

Join us for an interview with Joey Gonzalez, one of the founding members of the UC Berkeley RISE Lab and the founder of Aqueduct. Aqueduct is helping take data science into production systems. Listen to this episode to learn more!
Highlights:
[1:48] How Machine Learning Became Useful blog post
[5:04] Building and deploying predictive models
[8:36] Learnings from Turi
[10:55] Real time prediction at Apple
[13:19] Founding story of Aqueduct
[16:42] How is Aqueduct differentiated from other projects out there
[17:47] What is the status of the Aqueduct open source project today?
[18:56] Where are ML systems headed?

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E05: Geo Data w/ Lindsay Pettingill

Pete interviews Lindsay Pettingill, CEO & Founder of Iggy. Iggy allows users to quickly understand physical locations to make better investment and management decisions. Lindsay gives us an overview of Iggy, how working at Airbnb informed founding Iggy, what neighborhood data is, and what the long term vision for Iggy is. Check it out!
Highlights:
[1:20] What does Iggy do?
[5:20] How did your experience working at Airbnb inform founding Iggy?
[10:06] Neighborhood data
[13:22] Iggy’s long term vision (Wikipedia for places)
[14:50] Insights for founders from a founder

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