93: There Is No Data Observability Without Lineage with Kevin Hu of Metaplane

The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Kevin’s background and career journey (1:54)
• Metaplane and the problem that is solves (6:47)
• The silence of data problems (9:53)
• Data physics work that requires more (13:35)
• Trusting data when bugs are present (19:12)
• Building a navigable experience (22:36)
• Developing anomaly detection (30:06)
• What Metaplane provides today (35:05)
• Metaplane’s plans for the future (37:45)
• Comparing Bigquery, Snowflake, and Redshift (40:56)
• Why data goes bad (48:15)
• Advice for data trust workers (59:24)

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