The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Exploring the Evolution of AI and ML in E-commerce Search Optimization with Jesse Clark of Marqo.ai

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

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Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. All right, welcome back to the Data Stack Show. We are here with Jesse Clark from Marco. Jesse, welcome to the Data Stack Show. We are super thrilled to talk with you today. Yeah, great to be here. Thanks so much for having me on. All right,

you have a really long, interesting history, which we're going to dig into in a minute, but give us the abbreviated version. Abbreviated version. Yeah, started out physics, PhD, looking at very small things. Spent about six years in academia, then decided that this wasn't for me. Moved into women's fashion, doing data science at Stitch Fix, segued into Alexa at Amazon, robotics and search, and then founding Marco, which brings me here today. Awesome. Time to discuss.

All right. Yeah, welcome on, Jesse. So we talked a little bit before the show about the e-commerce application for search, some on the history of search, and why it's so complicated and messy right now. So what are some topics you're interested in covering? Yeah, really excited to talk about machine learning in search, vector search, some of the new capabilities that really unlocks and really forward-looking as well,

because I think that we're going to see a large evolution in the way that we search. We've already seen some of that with things like ChatGPT and these kind of question and answering methods. So, you know, forward-looking, I think it's really exciting. Yeah, awesome. All right, shall we do it?

Let's do it. All right, that's a wrap for the prequel. The full-length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.