84: Why Are Analytics Still So Hard? With Kaycee Lai of Promethium

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kaycee’s background and career journey (2:34)Why analytics are hard (7:28)Defining “data management” (11:47)Defining “data virtualization” (15:57)The relationship between data virtualization and ETL (18:34)Where a company should invest first (21:40)Building without a Frankenstein stack (25:19)How Promethium solves data stack issues (27:53)Giving context to data (35:14)Cataloging: background, at Promethium, future (39:29)Who uses data catalogs (48:00)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.