85: You Can Stop Doing Data Fire Drills with Barr Moses of Monte Carlo

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Barr’s background and career journey (2:12)
• Trust: a technical or human problem? (9:47)
• Behind the name “Monte Carlo” (15:41)
• Defining data accuracy and reliability (17:36)
• How much can be done with standardization (22:27)
• How to avoid frustration when generating data about data (25:49)
• Defining “resolution” (28:59)
• Understanding the concept of SLAs (33:25)
• Building a company for a category that doesn’t exist yet (37:40)
• What it looks like to use Monte Carlo (44:07)
• The best part about working with data teams (47:28)

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