Zero Prime Podcast - E06: Data Visualization w/ Max Beauchemin

E06: Data Visualization w/ Max Beauchemin

12/01/22 • 23 min

Join us for an interview with Max Beauchemin, the original creator of both Apache Superset and Apache Airflow and the founder and CEO of Preset, the company built around Apache Superset.
[1:37] Motivations for building Apache Superset
[5:30] Open source project KPIs
[7:19] Differences between Preset and Superset
[11:18] Superset deployment methods
[13:02] Superset metrics layer (dbt integration)
[14:33] Superset embedded use cases

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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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E07: Monetizing Open Source w/ Wes McKinney

Pete chats with Wes McKinney, the inspiration behind many popular OSS data & data science tools like pandas, Apache Arrow, Ibis and others. We learn from Wes' experience in starting businesses around OSS tooling, and hear his thoughts on monetization, ecosystem building and challenges in starting his companies as an engineer-founder.
Wes is currently the co-founder & CTO of Voltron Data, which is building accelerated computing technologies powered by Apache Arrow.
Highlights:
[0:50]: Wes’ thoughts on monetizing open source software (OSS)
[3:10]: Potential ways of turning a library/utility into a business
[4:53]: Example of DuckDB Labs + Motherduck partnership
[7:05]: Advice that Wes would give other engineer-founders
[11:00]: Working with design partners & early customers
[13:02]: Building relationships across the Arrow ecosystem
[14:45]: What’s the true value of OSS from Wes’ perspective
[17:03]: Wes’ advice on personal brand building as an engineer