93: There Is No Data Observability Without Lineage with Kevin Hu of Metaplane
This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Kevin Hu, co-founder of Metaplane. During the episode, Kevin discusses why data problem are “silent,” how much we can trust data, and the role of data lakes in the future.
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Show Notes
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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