Data Analytics

Datacast Episode 130: Towards Accessible Data Analysis with Emanuel Zgraggen

Datacast Episode 130: Towards Accessible Data Analysis with Emanuel Zgraggen

Before founding Einblick in 2020, Emanuel was a postdoc in the database group at MIT and got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. He worked on various interactive tools for visual data exploration and analysis during this time. Most of them either influenced or are direct predecessors of Einblick.

Before coming to the US, Emanuel worked as a Software and Data Engineer for various financial companies in Zurich. He tried his luck as a freelancer building in-studio touchscreen installations for Swiss National TV and developing a Spotify clone that failed miserably.

Datacast Episode 125: The Next Wave of Developer Platforms, Data Products, and Software Infrastructure with Sakib Dadi

Datacast Episode 125: The Next Wave of Developer Platforms, Data Products, and Software Infrastructure with Sakib Dadi

Sakib Dadi is a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners in their San Francisco office, where he primarily focuses on early-stage investments in developer platforms, data products, and software infrastructure. He has been involved with Bessemer’s investments, including Prefect, Coiled, Arcion, Periscope Data, Okera, Guild Education, and Sila Nanotechnologies. Before joining Bessemer, Sakib worked in product at Viagogo, an international marketplace for buying and selling tickets for live events.

Datacast Episode 124: The Open-Source Cloud Playbook, The Modular Future of Data and AI Infrastructure, and Meta-Learning as a VC with Casber Wang

Datacast Episode 124: The Open-Source Cloud Playbook, The Modular Future of Data and AI Infrastructure, and Meta-Learning as a VC with Casber Wang

Casber Wang is Partner at Sapphire Ventures. He focuses primarily on security, enterprise infrastructure, and data analytics.

He is on the boards of Huntress, JumpCloud, StarTree, Tetrate, Upytcs, and Zesty. For his work, Insider listed Casber as an Enterprise VC Rising Star Investor and as an emerging investor charting the industry’s future on the 2022 EVC List.

Prior to Sapphire, he was part of the technology investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked on a number of high-profile IPO and M&A transactions. He also spent time at Wish, a leading mobile commerce platform in North America and Europe.

Datacast Episode 91: Collaborative Data Workspace, The Sharing Gap, and Engineering Management with Caitlin Colgrove

Datacast Episode 91: Collaborative Data Workspace, The Sharing Gap, and Engineering Management with Caitlin Colgrove

Caitlin Colgrove is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hex Technologies, a collaborative data workspace for building and sharing data projects using SQL and Python. Caitlin has spent her career as a software engineer building data analytics tools, first at Palantir and then later at startups including Remix and Hex. As a CTO, her focus has expanded from purely technology to growing and developing diverse and inclusive engineering teams.

Datacast Episode 87: Product Experimentation, ML Platforms, and Metrics Store with Nick Handel

Datacast Episode 87: Product Experimentation, ML Platforms, and Metrics Store with Nick Handel

Nick Handel is Transform's CEO and Co-Founder. Before Transform, Nick was Head of Data at Branch International in the micro-lending space.

Before Branch, Nick held a variety of roles at Airbnb, both as a Data Scientist & Product Manager. He was on the Growth team that founded the Experiences product and the Data Platform team. His work includes launching Airbnb's ML platform, Zipline, building the company's data science team, helping with the company's initial international expansion, and leading the data science team that launched Airbnb's Trips product.

Before joining Airbnb, Nick was a research economist at BlackRock. He is an avid trail runner, climber, skier, and adventurer, much of the time with his dog Huckleberry.

Datacast Episode 79: Analytics Culture, Digital Contracting, and Data Angels with Jessica Cherny

Datacast Episode 79: Analytics Culture, Digital Contracting, and Data Angels with Jessica Cherny

Jessica Cherny currently runs the data analytics team at Ironclad, a series D digital contracting startup. As part of her job, Jessica builds out the data analytics function and provides analytics and data insights to inform business decisions for the product, customer success, engineering, sales, marketing, and operations organizations. Prior to joining Ironclad, she graduated from UC Berkeley as part of the university’s first cohort of Data Science majors.

Outside of work, Jessica is passionate about data mentorship and founded Data Angels -- a Slack community of women in data that provides resources, support, job opportunities, education, and community to its members.

Datacast Episode 78: Open-Source Investing and Data Product Management with Julia Schottenstein

Datacast Episode 78: Open-Source Investing and Data Product Management with Julia Schottenstein

Julia Schottenstein is a Product Manager at dbt Labs, the maker of the popular open-source project dbt. Before joining dbt Labs, Julia was an investor at New Enterprise Associates, where she invested in infrastructure, developer tools, open-source, and data startups. She currently sits on the boards of Sentry and Metabase while being an active angel investor. Julia graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering.

Datacast Episode 74: The Next Generation of Business Intelligence with Cindi Howson

Datacast Episode 74: The Next Generation of Business Intelligence with Cindi Howson

Cindi Howson, the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, is an analytics and Business Intelligence expert with more than 20 years of experience and a flair for bridging business needs with technology.

Cindi was previously the Vice President in data and analytics at Gartner, where she was the lead author of the Analytics and BI Magic Quadrant. Additionally, she led the data and analytics maturity model, as well as research initiatives in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics.

Prior to this, she was the founder of BI Scorecard, a contributor to Information Week, and the author of several books, including (1) Successful Business Intelligence: Unlock the Value of BI & Big Data and (2) SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0: The Complete Reference. She has an MBA from Rice University and a BA from the University of Maryland.

Datacast Episode 68: Threat Intelligence, Venture Stamina, and Data Investing with Sarah Catanzaro

Datacast Episode 68: Threat Intelligence, Venture Stamina, and Data Investing with Sarah Catanzaro

Sarah Catanzaro is a Partner at Amplify Partners, where she focuses on investing in and advising high potential startups in machine intelligence, data management, and distributed systems. Her investments at Amplify include startups like RunwayML, Maze Design, OctoML, and Metaphor Data, among others. Sarah also has several years of experience defining data strategy and leading data science teams at startups and in the defense/intelligence sector, including roles at Mattermark, Palantir, Cyveillance, and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies.

Datacast Episode 62: Leading Organizations Through Analytics Transformations with Gordon Wong

Datacast Episode 62: Leading Organizations Through Analytics Transformations with Gordon Wong

As a data modeling fanatic, data warehouse architect, multi-hypergrowth startup veteran, and team builder, Gordon has built his career on helping people get their business questions. Over time, he's switched his focus from pure technology to complete solutions where people, process, and technology all play a role. At Fitbit, he established the data warehousing team and, as an early customer of Snowflake, used it to fuel petabyte-scale analytics. Later on, at both ezCater and Hubspot, he rebuilt the data warehousing teams to focus on enabling analysts, not loading more data. A constant focus on the customer and their problems has led him to realize that empathy is the most important trait a leader can have.