Meet George Fraser, a 2023 Datanami Person to Watch

Death, taxes, and ETL: Some things are just inevitable. But give credit to Fivetran co-founder and CEO George Fraser with creating a product and company that is trying to make the process of building pipelines that move Read more…

Meet 2022 Datanami Person to Watch Tristan Handy

When it comes to data transformation in the modern data stack, few products have garnered as much interest as Data Building Tool (dbt), the open source, SQL-based command line tool enjoyed by millions of users. As the CE Read more…

Meet Susan Gregurick, a Datanami Person to Watch for 2022

Data science is not only important for business and commerce at large--it's also critical to the physical health and well-being of our country. The COVID-19 pandemic showed that clearly. One of the federal officials invo Read more…

Meet Zhamak Dehghani, a 2022 Datanami Person to Watch

In the struggle to manage big data in a world full of data silos, few ideas have garnered as much support as quickly as the data mesh concept. Data meshes have sprung up everywhere over the past few years, which is the m Read more…

Meet Joy Buolamwini, a Datanami 2022 Person to Watch

There's no doubt that AI will have a big impact on our collective future, but there are doubts whether that impact will be all positive. The potential for bias, specifically, is one of the big unknowns. One of the folks Read more…

Meet 2022 Datanami Person to Watch Ryan Blue

As the co-creator of Apache Iceberg, Ryan Blue played a central role in establishing the table data format as a new standard in the open data ecosystem. As the CEO of Tabular, Blue is also buliding a commerical entity ar Read more…