About Sam
Where does Sam Live?
Chicago
In 2019, this company acquired Tableau in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $15.7 billion.
What is Salesforce?
This three-letter acronym describes the classic process of pulling data from a source, reshaping it, and loading it into a target system.
What is ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)?
Michael Jordan won all six of his NBA championships with this team
Who are the Chicago Bulls?
This Italian dessert, layered with espresso-soaked ladyfingers and mascarpone, has a name that translates to “pick me up.”
What is tiramisu?
Fiance Name
Courtney
Tableau’s live, on-stage data visualization competition, where finalists build a viz in front of a conference audience against the clock.
What is Iron Viz?
Created at Airbnb in 2014, this open-source orchestration tool schedules pipelines as DAGs written in Python.
What is Apache Airflow?
This trophy, named after a former Governor General of Canada, goes to the NHL’s playoff champion.
What is the Stanley Cup?
Though it’s a symbol of French baking, the croissant traces its roots to the kipferl, a crescent-shaped pastry from this country.
What is Austria?
Profession before sales
Special Education Teacher
After its 2013 IPO, Tableau traded on the NYSE under this fitting four-letter ticker symbol.
What is DATA?
Popularized by Databricks, this lakehouse design pattern organizes data into bronze, silver, and gold layers.
What is the medallion architecture?
This is the only one of tennis’s four Grand Slam tournaments played on clay.
What is the French Open (Roland-Garros)?
Harvested by hand from crocus flowers, this is the world’s most expensive spice by weight.
What is saffron?
What kind of dog does he have?
Mini Labradoodle
This patented technology, born out of Stanford research, translates drag-and-drop actions into database queries and visual output.
What is VizQL?
Developed at LinkedIn, this distributed event streaming platform was named after a famous author because its creator felt it was a system optimized for writing.
What is Apache Kafka?
This team sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919, kicking off a famous “curse” that lasted until 2004.
Who are the Boston Red Sox?
Paella originated in this region on Spain’s eastern coast, which shares its name with its capital city.
What is Valencia?
What is Sam's favorite cocktail
Penicillin
This Tableau co-founder and Stanford professor shared the 2019 Turing Award with Pixar’s Ed Catmull for contributions to 3D computer graphics.
Who is Pat Hanrahan?
While at BackType, this engineer created Apache Storm and coined the term “Lambda architecture” for systems that combine a batch layer with a real-time speed layer.
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Who is Nathan Marz?
In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier playing for this team.
Who are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
One of the five French “mother sauces,” this one is made from butter, flour, and milk.
What is béchamel?