19: Defining Data Governance with Stephen Bailey from Immuta

This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by Stephen Bailey, Director of Applied Data Science at Immuta. Immuta is a startup that focuses on enabling data teams to have really fast, efficient, and understandable access controls on their data. 

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• The problem that Immuta solves (2:04)
• Stephen’s background researching how the brain works (4:56)
• Immuta’s stack (15:09)
• Leveraging metadata (18:02)
• The main use case for Immuta is simplifying the access control layer (20:06)
• Unifying data (31:52)
• Defining the quality of data (34:04)
• Learning to trust the numbers (39:42)
• What’s next for Immuta (46:15)

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