The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Open Source Data Tools: Buying or Selling?

Episode Date: September 16, 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. Welcome back to the Data Stack Show. This is one of our favorite times of the month. It's where we get to sit down with Matt Keller-Hurgibson, the cynical data guy,

and hear his perspectives that have been shaped through over a decade of time spent deep in the bowels of enterprise data in corporate America. Matt, welcome back as always. Thank you. I'm glad to be here for my monthly festivus. Yes. I had a lot of problem with you people. You're going to hear about it. Cannot wait. All right. Well, one of the hashtags in this first post is hot takes. So I think we're

going to start out with a bang here. For those of you listening to a Cynical Data Guy episode for the first time, we have Matt on the show. John and I go through LinkedIn and we pick out posts that we think would rile the Cynical Data Guy up and we do lightning rounds. John's company is called the Agreeable Data Guy. So my goal is to pit them against each other and get differing opinions.

And today, actually, I have four posts. So if we can wrap the first three up, we can do a lightning round. Bonus round. Yes. Bonus round. Okay. Round one, ding, ding.

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.