The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: From ETL to AI: Taylor Murphy’s Journey to Transform Data Analytics

Episode Date: October 28, 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. We're here back on the Data Stack Show with Taylor Murphy, the CEO of Arch. And Taylor, you have been on the show before, actually, almost two years ago, as crazy as it sounds. So welcome back. Glad to have you back again. Yeah, thanks for having me.

All right, well, give us, so almost two years, give us the quick flyby of what happened. So last time we talked, you were working on Meltano and Arch is something new. So what happened? Absolutely. Yeah. So since that time, I've actually taken over as CEO of the company and kind of we've expanded the vision of what Meltano and now Arch data can do. We rebranded the company to Arch to signal, hey, we're this larger platform and kind of the foundation of your business success. Arch today is an AI data analyst for business leaders. So we help bring the outcomes of good data teams and what good data teams can provide to more organizations. And we're doing this with

an AI powered all in one platform that comes back with human experts in the loop. So Taylor, before the show, I had a really fun time talking about the AI agent model and the different philosophies behind that that people have. You guys have a really unique philosophy on that, so I'm excited to dig on that. And then what else are you excited about digging in on? Yeah, I'm absolutely excited to talk about that. I think more broadly too,

the reason AI is so compelling at this point in time is we now have a good understanding of what excellent modern data practices are from the explosion of all these different tools. And we also understand that what businesses need and what moves the needle in a business are always going to be based on the metrics and how you measure your business

and what the processes are under that. And when you combine a good modern data practice with a smart, intelligent AI and a platform that can help combine those two, I think it's something really cool and magical. Awesome. Well, let's dig in. Yeah, let's do it. All right, that's a wrap for the prequel.

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