110: How Can Data Discovery Help You Understand Your Data? Featuring Shinji Kim of Select Star

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Shinji’s background and career journey (3:35)
• Defining “data discovery” (6:03)
• The best conditions to use Select Star (8:45)
• Where Select Star fits on the data spectrum (13:38)
• Why Select Star is needed (17:35)
• How Select Star uses metadata (21:02)
• Exposing data queries (27:04)
• Composing queries into metadata (33:27)
• Automating BI tools (37:28)
• Limits to data governance (41:39)
• Maintaining economies of scale (48:56)

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