21: Data Integrity and Governance with Patrick Thompson and Ondrej Hrebicek from Iteratively

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by the co-founders of Iteratively, CEO Patrick Thompson and CTO Ondrej Hrebicek. Iteratively helps companies know that their data can be trusted by helping capture clean, consistent product analytics. Today’s conversation digs into the behind the scenes of Iteratively and how trust in data can help accelerate the velocity of an organization.

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Patrick and Ondrej’s background and the biggest problem Iteratively addresses (2:50)
• Why some companies still use spreadsheet schema management and the potential pitfalls they’re setting themselves up for with this (4:39)
• Defining schema in the context of data (7:02)
• Viewing the process as a team sport (11:34)
• Identifying common mistakes and implementing best practices (13:46)
• A walkthrough of Iteratively (17:13)
• Utilizing a JSON schema format (26:58)
• Laying Iteratively on top of or integrating it with an implementation for analytics (30:36)
• Entry point into organizations (33:02)
• Organizational change and velocity realized after implementing Iteratively (36:04)
• What’s next for Iteratively? (42:47)

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