179: Time Series Data Management and Data Modeling with Tony Wang of Stanford University

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Tony's background and research focus (3:35)
• Challenges in academia and industry (6:15)
• Ph.D. student's routine (10:47)
• Academic paper review process (15:26)
• Aha moments in research (20:05)
• Academic lab structure (23:09)
• The decision to move from hardware to data research (24:43)
• Research focus on time series data management (27:40)
• Data modeling in time series and OLAP systems (32:01)
• Issues and potential solutions for parquet format (37:32)
• Role of external indices in parquet files (42:19)
• Tony's open source project (47:11)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (49:30)

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