40: Graph Processing on Snowflake for Customer Behavioral Analytics

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Launching Affinio and the engineering backgrounds of the co-founders (2:36)
• The massive transformation in customer data privacy regulation in the past eight years (6:23)
• Creating the underpinning technology that can apply to any customer behavioral data set (10:05)
• Ranking and scoring surfing patterns and sorting nodes and edges (14:13)
• Placing the importance of attributes into a simple UI experience (19:28)
• Going from a columnar database to a graph processing system (25:20)
• Working with custom or atypical data (32:46)
• The decision to work with Snowflake (37:43)
• Next steps for utilizing third-party tools within Snowflake (52:18)

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