The Observatory

Dawn Woodard, distinguished data scientist and LinkedIn, and Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder of Bigeye, discuss data science careers, managing teams, and more.

Adi Polak, VP of devex at Treeverse, and Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder of Bigeye, careers in developer experience, the open-source data community, the biggest "oh damn moment" of Adi's career, and more.

Colin Zima, founder of Omni, talks about workbook models, lessons learned from Looker, and nudging toward scalability.

Ethan Aaron, founder of Portable, and Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder of Bigeye, discuss the MVP modern data stack, the data tracks controversy, and two trends in data you should be leveraging right now.

Andrew Jones, tech lead for the data pillar at GoCardless, and Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder of Bigeye, discuss the invention of data contracts and building out the data pillar of a fintech unicorn.

Chad Sanderson, head of data at Convoy, and Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder of Bigeye, discuss the hub-and-spoke data team structure, 1990s data initiatives, and resolving long-term technical debt.

Justin Berka, head of data at Nearside, and Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder of Bigeye, discuss accidental data careers, finding superstars for data roles, and the challenges of the T-shape.

Caitlin Colgrove, founder and CTO of Hex Technologies, and Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder of Bigeye, discuss the proliferation of tools along the data pipeline and why teams are gaining the technical chops to work with them.

Benn and Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder of Bigeye, converse on the rise of code-forward data analytics tools and why, despite better tools, the demand for data analytics is still unmet.

Boris Jabes, founder and CEO of Census, weighs in on reverse ETL (and its derivatives) and shares his view for what people get wrong about the data field. 

Kyle, from The Observatory, and Mark Grover, founder and CEO of Stemma, discuss data catalogs, the history of data, and how open source and data catalogs go hand in hand.