Modern Data Work at Drizly w/ Emily Hawkins

About this episode

Sure, it’s fun to chat with data executives and thought leaders, but this season, we are focusing on the people who roll up their sleeves and get the data work done. And there’s no better place for a podcast like ours to start than with a data practitioner at Drizly. 

Special guest Emily Hawkins, analytics and data platform lead, joins Tim and Juan to share how the data team and the data stack were established and how the e-commerce platform is evolving following the company’s acquisition by Uber.

This episode features

• The role of analytics engineer on a high-performing data team

• The evolving role of self-service BI

• What’s a delivery service you wish we had today that doesn’t exist yet?

Key takeaways

• Analytics Engineering: data following software standards: git, modeling, peer review

• dbt community is cool!

• Tip: spend time on data modeling!