118: Bringing Powerful Business Intelligence to Mobile with Zack Hendlin of Zing Data
This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Zack Hendlin, CEO & Co-Founder of Zing Data. During the episode, Zack discusses his time building newsfeeds and curation at LinkedIn and Facebook, how Zing is using BI and analytics to give users the ability to query on mobile devices, and more.
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Show Notes
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Zack’s extensive background in the world of data and the genesis of Zing (3:02)
- Working on relevance, feeds, and ads at Facebook & LinkedIn (9:20)
- Exploring BI and queries on mobile devices (16:48)
- Reliance of input quality in data (23:28)
- Delivering a mobile-first experience in BI (30:11)
- Limitations of visualization on mobile devices (34:00)
- How BI tools interact with one another in Zing (45:21)
- The future of user-experience in consuming data (49:19)
- Final thoughts and takeaways (59:56)
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