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1 Drill to Detail Ep.121 'How Partnerships Power the Data Analytics Ecosystem' featuring Special Guest Eleanor Thompson 41:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined on this episode by Branchworks CEO Eleanor Thompson to talk about partner programs, partner portals and the role partnerships play in making data analytics initiatives a success. Branchworks homepage : Activating Partnerships for Revenue Growth CastorDoc case study Eleanor Thompson LinkedIn Profile…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.120 ‘Embeddable, Cube and Lightning-Fast In-App Analytics’ with Special Guest Tom Gardiner 40:21
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode of the Drill to Detail Podcast Mark Rittman is joined by special guest Tom Gardiner, CEO @ Embeddable.com to talk about Embeddable's mission to create the leading developer toolkit for building fast, interactive customer-facing analytics directly into your product in partnership with Cube.dev and Rittman Analytics. Trevor.io Embeddable.com Why Embeddable? Embeddable and Cube - Easy Embedded Analytics for Everyone Embeddable & Rittman Analytics Facility Solutions Group case study…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.119 ‘Data Control Planes, SDF Labs and dbt Cloud Visual Editor’ with Special Guest Greg McKeon 41:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Greg McKeon, Staff Product Manager at dbt Labs to talk about their recent acquisition of SDF Labs, the vision for dbt as the control plane for data collaboration at-scale and the upcoming drag-and-drop Visual Editor that’s soon to be part of dbt Cloud. dbt Cloud: The control plane for data collaboration at scale About the Visual Editor Coalesce 2024 and the Launch of dbt’s Visual Editing Experience dbt Labs Acquires SDF Labs to Introduce Robust SQL Comprehension into dbt and Supercharge Developer Efficiency Drill to Detail Ep.115 ‘Airbnb, DataOps and SQLMesh’s Data Engineering Innovation’ with Special Guest Toby Mao…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.118 ‘A Look Into the Future of Looker and Google Cloud Data Analytics’ featuring Special Guest Sean Zinsmeister 50:36
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode, Sean Zinsmeister from Google joins Mark Rittman to discuss the latest developments for Looker including the integration of Looker Studio, new modeling capabilities and the exciting potential of generative AI for BI. We discuss how Looker is evolving to be a more open, composable platform that can power advanced analytics and data storytelling, with Sean sharing insights on Google's purpose-built Gemini models for natural language to SQL translation and how Looker customers can leverage these AI capabilities. We also explore Looker's agentic API strategy, the long-term vision of using Looker Studio as the primary Looker front-end and the opening up of LookML to tools beyond just Looker. Driving Looker customer innovations in the generative AI era Previewing Studio in Looker, the (Eventual) Future of Self-Service Reporting for Looker Looker now available from Google Cloud console Delivering the third wave of BI in the AI era with Looker Drill to Detail Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein Drill to Detail Ep. 73 'Luck, Thinking Different and Designing Looker Data Platform' with Special Guest Colin Zima…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.117 ‘How DataCoves Operationalises the Modern Data Stack’ featuring Special Guest Noel Gomez 50:37
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJoin Mark Rittman in this special end-of-year episode as he speaks with Noel Gomez, co-founder of DataCoves about the challenges and opportunities of orchestrating dbt and other tools within the open-source Modern Data Stack, navigating the evolving semantic layer landscape and the future of modular, vendor-agnostic data solutions. Datacoves Platform Overview Build vs Buy Analytics Platform: Hosting Open-Source Tools Scale the benefits of Core with dbt Cloud Dagster vs. Airflow…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.116 ‘Spotify, Semantic Layers and Steep’s Metrics-First Approach to BI Tools’ with Special Guest Johan Baltzar 40:26
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined in this episode by Johan Baltzar, previously Product Analytics Manager at Spotify and now co-founder and CEO at Steep to talk about the role analytics played in Spotify’s growth story, the startup scene in Stockholm, Sweden and Steep’s metrics-first approach to user-centric business analytics. The Kry founders factory: Meet 15 employees-turned-founders Steep homepage New in Steep : Cube and dbt Targets & BI - How hard can it be?…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.115 ‘Airbnb, DataOps and SQLMesh’s Data Engineering Innovation’ with Special Guest Toby Mao 34:28
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined in this latest Drill to Detail episode by Tobias (Toby) Mao, CTO and co-Founder at Tobiko Data to talk about SQLGlot, the innovation culture at Airbnb and the data engineering challenges solved by SQLMesh. SQLGlot Introducing Minerva — Airbnb’s Metric Platform SQLMesh homepage Tobiko Cloud Running dbt in SQLMesh dbt Mesh Dlt (Data Load Tool)…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.114 ‘Building a Solopreneur Data Analytics Consultancy’ with Special Guest Christian Steinert 44:50
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined in this episode by Christian Steinert to talk about his solo journey building Steinert Analytics, a data analytics consultancy transforming data into actionable revenue and cost-saving insights for Central Ohio's SaaS startups. Steinert Analytics homepage Christian Steinert LinkedIn Profile “Helping a Roofing Company Define Their Sales Process” “Transforming a Top 5 Fast Food Company's Operational Drive-Thru Reporting”…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep. 113 ‘Data Teams, Portable and Data Integration’s Long Tail’ featuring Special Guest Ethan Aaron 50:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Ethan Aaron, Founder & CEO of Portable, to talk about what you should do if you’re the first data hire at a company, when and when not to hire a consultant, the founding story of Portable.io and the long tail (and economic model) of the data integration connectors market. Ethan Aaron LinkedIn Profile Portable.io Homepage “The biggest misconceptions about data integrations..” (LinkedIn) “You join a 100 person company as the head of data. What should you do?” (LinkedIn) “The stuff no one will tell you about running a data team” (LinkedIn)…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.112 ‘From Delphi to Cube’s New Semantic Model AI Features’ with Special Guest David Jayatillake 33:42
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by returning guest David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube.dev, to talk about Delphi Labs’ journey from a standalone data analytics chatbot to now becoming the basis of Cube’s new AI features within its composable semantic model product. Drill to Detail Ep.102 'LLMs, Semantic Models and Bringing AI to the Modern Data Stack' with Special Guest David Jayatillake Drill to Detail Ep.107 'Cube, Headless BI and the AI Semantic Layer' with Special Guest Artyom Keydunov Introducing the AI API and Chart Prototyping in Cube Cloud A Practical Guide to Getting Started with Cube's AI API Cube Rollup London : Bringing Cube Users Together…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.111 'Making Analytics Fun, Frictionless and Ducking Awesome' with Special Guest Jordan Tigani 48:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this final episode of the current series of Drill to Detail by returning guest Jordan Tigani, Co-Founder & CEO at Motherduck to talk about the journey from big data to small data and bringing hybrid cloud execution to DuckDB. Big Data is Dead Teach Your Duckdb To Fly Announcing Motherduck: Hybrid Execution Scales Duckdb From Your Laptop Into The Cloud Drill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.110 'Building a Sequel to SQL with Malloy' featuring Special Guests Lloyd Tabb and Carlin Eng 53:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this special episode by previous Looker founder and inventor of the LookML language Lloyd Tabb together with Carlin Eng, Product Manager at Google Cloud to talk about Malloy, a new query language to replace SQL for analytics. Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb Malloy : An experimental language for data A Sequel to SQL? An introduction to Malloy Why SQL syntax sucks, and why it matters Composing with Queries Dimensional Flexibility, one of the things that makes Malloy Special Data is Rectangular and other Limiting Misconceptions Malloy's Near Term Roadmap…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.109 'Dagster, Orchestration and Software-Defined Assets' with Special Guest Nick Schrock 53:42
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by returning guest and Elementl Founder Nick Shrock to talk about Dagster's role in the modern data stack ecosystem and software defined assets, a new, declarative approach to managing data and orchestrating its maintenance. Introducing Software-Defined Assets Rethinking Orchestration as Reconciliation: Software-Defined Assets in Dagster Optimizing Data Materialization Using Dagster’s Policies How I use Dagster to orchestrate the production of social science data assets…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.108 "Mode, ThoughtSpot and AI as the Next Discontinuity" with Special Guest Benn Stancil 53:27
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by Benn Stancil, CTO and Founder at Mode to talk about their recent acquisition by ThoughtSpot, the economics of the modern data stack and how AI and LLMs could likely become our industry’s next discontinuity. We don’t need another SQL chatbot The new philosophers ThoughtSpot acquires Mode Analytics, a BI platform, for $200M in cash and stock ChatGPT-Powered Data Analysis using Cube, Delphi and the Code Interpreter Plugin…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.107 'Cube, Headless BI and the AI Semantic Layer' with Special Guest Artyom Keydunov 43:42
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Artyom Keydunov, Founder at Cube to talk about embedded analytics and Cube's origin story, headless BI, query acceleration and how Cube and Delphi enable an AI-powered conversational interface for the semantic layer. Empower uniquely insightful AI & LLM data experiences AI-powered conversational interface for the semantic layer Define metrics upstream to align your team How Rittman Analytics Delivers the Semantic Layer Today with Cube Rittman Analytics Cube Quickstart…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.106 'Customer Studio, Hightouch Performance and the Evolution of Reverse ETL' with Special Guest Tejas Manohar 42:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHightouch co-Founder and co-CEO Tejas Manohar returns as special guest to talk with Mark Rittman about the reverse ETL market today, the evolution of the composable customer data platform and new featured in Hightouch to enrich customer profiles and drive personalization across marketing campaigns. Reverse ETL is Dead (Ethan Aaron LinkedIn Post) Customer 360 Data Warehousing and Sync to Hubspot You don't need the Modern Data Stack to get sh*t done Hightouch Customer Studio Hightouch Personalization API Hightouch Match Booster What's in Store for Data Teams in 2023?…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.105 ‘Data Catalogs, Data Discovery and Data Lineage for the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guest Shinji Kim 37:44
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined by Shinji Kim, Founder and CEO of Select Star to talk about their mission to re-invent data catalogs, data discovery and data lineage for the modern data stack Data Discovery vs. Data Observability: Understanding the Differences for Better DataOps Select Star and dbt Labs Partner for Better Data Discovery on dbt Select Star : Free Trial…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.104 ‘Delta Lakes, Tiger Temples and the Databricks Lakehouse Platform’ with Special Guests Jason Pohl and Stewart Bryson 47:11
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Jason Pohl, Senior Director of Data Management at Databricks along with special co-host and Head of Customer Experience at Coalesce, Stewart Bryson to talk about data lakehouses, Databricks and helping to raise tigers in a Thai Tiger Temple. Databricks - A History What is a Delta Lake? The Databricks Lakehouse Platform Databricks SQL Jason Pohl LinkedIn Profile Lions and Tigers and a Bear named Maam Maam Stewart Bryson Github profile Coalesce.io…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep. 103 'Reverse ETL, Profiles Sync and Segment Unify' with Special Guest Kevin Niparko 30:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Twilio Segment Head of Product Kevin Niparko to talk about trends in the customer data platform market, Reverse ETL and Profiles Sync, the impact of LLMs (Large Language Models) on digital customer experience and Segment Unify, a consumer scale real-time identity resolution solution that provides complete, real-time, portable customer profiles. Segment Unify is here: complete, real-time, portable customer profiles Activate warehouse data in all of your destination tools Customer profiles made portable Drill to Detail Ep.94 'Rudderstack and the Warehouse-First Customer Data Platform' with Special Guest Eric Dodds Drill to Detail Ep. 86 'Reverse ETL, Hightouch and CDW as CDP' with Special Guest Tejas Manohar…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.102 'LLMs, Semantic Models and Bringing AI to the Modern Data Stack' with Special Guest David Jayatillake 52:20
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by David Jayatillake, CEO and co-founder of Delphi Labs, to talk about the role of semantic models and the marketplace today, large language models and the phenomena that is ChatGPT, and how Delphi Labs are planning on bringing AI to Slack and the modern data stack. https://www.delphihq.com/#about https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jayatillake/details/experience/ For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More? LinkedIn post on rationale behind Delphi Labs product development Delphi - Jaffle Shop Demo Semantic Superiority - Part 1 and Part 2 Semantic Search product feature LLM Implications on Analytics (and Analysts!) “Is This You?” Entity Matching in the Modern Data Stack with Large Language models and github repo ChatGPT, Large Language Models and the Future of dbt and Analytics Consulting RA Assistant…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.101 ‘The Story Behind the Story of RJ Metrics, Fishtown Analytics and dbt Labs’ with Special Guest Tristan Handy 42:30
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJoining Mark Rittman for this 101st Episode Special for the Drill to Detail Podcast is Tristan Handy, CEO and Founder of dbt Labs talking about what went right at RJ Metrics, how the Analyst Collective led to today’s community around the open-source dbt project and his personal journey from being in the lab building Fishtown Analytics to CEO of today’s hottest data analytics startup … and why he secretly wishes he was Mark (according to Mark). Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein (Drill to Detail Podcast) My $2.6 Billion Ecosystem Fail: an RJMetrics Post Mortem (Bob Moore) How Best-in-Class eCommerce Businesses Achieve 230% Growth (2x eCommerce) Introducing the RA Warehouse dbt Framework : How Rittman Analytics Does Data Centralization using dbt, Google BigQuery, Stitch and Looker (Rittman Analytics Blog) Goodbye RJMetrics, Hello Fishtown Analytics (Tristan Handy) Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy (Drill to Detail Podcast) Analytics is a Trade (Tristan Handy) Analyst Collective website (via the Internet Archive) Building a Mature Analytics Workflow: The Analyst Collective Viewpoint (SlideShare) Fishtown Analytics : Frequently-Asked Questions (via the Internet Archive) Ep 41: dbt Labs + Transform join forces on metrics w/ Nick Handel + Drew Banin (Analytics Engineering Podcast via Spotify)…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein 1:15:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJoining Mark Rittman for this 100th Episode Special are Keenan Rice (previously Founding Team, GTM Executive at Looker, now GM at Firebolt), Stewart Bryson (previously CEO at Red Pill Analytics, now Head of Customer Experience at Coalesce) and joining us mid-way through the show as our even more special mystery guest, Jake Stein (previously Co-Founder and COO at RJ Metrics, CEO and Co-Founder at Stitch and now CEO and Co-Founder at Common Paper. Drill to Detail Past Episodes discussed on the show were: Drill To Detail Ep.1. 'After The Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016', With Special Guest Stewart Bryson Drill to Detail Ep.23 ‘Looker, BigQuery and Analytics on Big Data’ With Special Guest Daniel Mintz Drill to Detail Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy Drill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent Graziano Drill to Detail Ep.69 'Looker, Tableau and Consolidation in the BI Industry' featuring Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson Drill to Detail Ep.89 'Firebolt and the History of Cloud Data Warehousing' with Special Guest Eldad Farkash Drill to Detail Ep.99 “Is the Modern Data Stack Dead?” with Special Guest Chris Tabb Other show notes below: Gartner Makes it Official: The Age of Self-Service Is Upon Us RJMetrics Acquired by Magento Commerce, Pipeline is now Stitch The Startup Founders’ Guide to Analytics - Tristan Handy Analyzing Drill to Detail Podcast Stats using Hex Google Completes Looker Acquisition Common Paper Rittman Analytics : How We Work Drill to Detail Ep.96 'Omni's Mission to Answer the First 100 Questions' with Special Guest Colin Zima Coalesce : Start Free…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.98 'Why the Future of Notebooks Isn't Just About Notebooks' with Special Guest Izzy Miller 54:30
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Izzy Miller to talk about Hex, a collaborative data platform that brings everyone together to explore, analyze, and share … and why the future of notebooks isn’t just about notebooks. Hex website Public app gallery of example Hex projects . Dataframe SQL announcement Hex for Analytics Engineers Tweet thread about why the python / sql debate is boring " The Sharing Gap "…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.97 'The Role of GA4 in the Future MarTech Stack' with Special Guest Daniel Perry-Reed 54:25
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWe’re joined on this episode of Drill to Detail by fellow Brightonian Daniel Perry-Reed from Measurelab, talking with Mark about the new Google Analytics 4 release and its role within the future Marketing Technology stack. From the wild west of data collection to conversion modelling The sun is setting on Universal Analytics MeasureFest April 2022: The role of GA in the future MarTech stack Event-Based Analytics (and BigQuery Export) comes to Google Analytics 4; How Does It Work… and What’s the Catch? The Measurepod…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.96 'Omni's Mission to Answer the First 100 Questions' with Special Guest Colin Zima 36:36
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this very special episode by Colin Zima, ex-Head of Analytics at Looker and now co-founder of Omni, a new analytics startup looking to become the fastest way to ask the first 100 questions. Introducing Omni: The fastest way to turn SQL into intelligence Omni Analytics Homepage…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.95 'Mozart Data and solving the Modern Data Stack Skills Shortage' with Special Guest Peter Fishman 39:27
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Peter Fishman to talk about Mozart Data, the modern data stack and the need to automate the role of the analytics engineer. MozartData website Data Bites: A Virtual Lunch and Learn with Powered by Fivetran, Snowflake and Mozart Data Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) – One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.94 'Rudderstack and the Warehouse-First Customer Data Platform' with Special Guest Eric Dodds 54:30
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Eric Dodds to talk about Rudderstack's founding story and open-source roots, Segment compatibility and event-based pricing vs. MTUs and Rudderstack's "Warehouse-First" approach to building customer data platforms. Rudderstack's Data Stack : Deep Dive Introducing RudderStack Cloud: The Warehouse-First CDP for Developers Rudderstack, Snowplow and Open-Source CDP Alternatives to Segment How Twilio is Shaping Segment Event-Based Analytics (and BigQuery Export) comes to Google Analytics 4; How Does It Work… and What’s the Catch? Why (and How) Customer Data Warehouses are the New Customer Data Platform Why Take a Warehouse-First Approach to Analytics…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.93 'Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer' with Special Guest Katie Hindson 46:53
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this first episode of a new series, Mark Rittman is joined by Katie Hindson to talk about Lightdash, a new open-source alternative to Looker that uses dbt as its metrics layer and semantic model. Lightdash.com What is the dbt Metrics Layer? Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.92 'dbt, Spectacles and Making Testing Sexy' with Special Guests Dylan Baker and Josh Temple 45:54
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWe're joined on this episode of Drill to Detail by Dylan Baker and Josh Temple to talk about developing multi-layer modern data stack projects, Spectacles’ recently released integration with dbt and what's now possible with their new public API Extending Spectacles with API-Triggered Runs Synchronizing Looker and dbt™ with Spectacles Drill to Detail Ep.82 'Looker Development, Automated Testing and Spectacles' with Special Guest Josh Temple Adding Looker Regression Tests to the dbtCloud CI/CD Test Pipeline using Spectacles Drill to Detail Ep.67 'Thinking Probabilistically and Scaling-Out the Modern BI Stack' with Special Guest Dylan Baker…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Nick Schrock, ex-Facebook Engineer and now Founder of Elementl to talk about GraphQL, data platform engineers and @dagsterio, a data orchestrator for machine learning, analytics, and ETL. Introducing Dagster Dagster homepage Elementl homepage Orchestrating dbt with Dagster Moving past Airflow: Why Dagster is the next-generation data orchestrator…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.90 'Apache Kafka, Real-Time Stream Processing and ksqlDB' with Special Guest Michael Drogalis 39:02
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Michale Drogalis, Product Manager at Confluent to talk about the history of Apache Kafka and real-time stream processing, the origins of kSQL and kSQLdb and the rationale and use-cases addressed by these products. ksqldDB product homepage Introducing ksqlDB Blog Post Kafka Streams vs. ksqlDB Blog Post…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.89 'Firebolt and the History of Cloud Data Warehousing' with Special Guest Eldad Farkash 49:05
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Eldad Farkash, Co-Founder and CEO at Firebolt to talk about SiSense and Panorama, the history of cloud data warehouses and how Firebolt's technology delivers query results 4-6000x faster than Snowflake, Redshift and AWS Athena. Snowflake’s Co-Founder Marcin Żukowski Reflects On His Time At CWI Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica & MonetDB Eldad Farkash, inventor of In-Chip technology, takes top honors with IT Software (Individual) award Firebolt Touts Massive Speedup in Cloud Data Warehouse Why Firebolt?…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.88 'Superset, Preset and the Future of Business Intelligence' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin 43:55
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMaxime Beauchemin returns to the Drill to Detail Podcast and joins Mark Rittman to talk about what's new with Apache Airflow 2.0, the origin story for Apache Superset and now Preset.io, why the future of business intelligence is open source and news on Marquez, a reference implementation of the OpenLineage open source metadata service for the collection, aggregation, and visualization of a data ecosystem’s metadata sponsored by WeWork. The Rise of the Data Engineer Drill to Detail Ep.26 'Airflow, Superset & The Rise of the Data Engineer' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin Apache Airflow 2.0 is here! Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platform The Future of Business Intelligence is Open Source Powerful, easy to use data exploration and visualization platform, powered by Apache Superset™ Admunsen: Open source data discovery and metadata engine OpenLineage Marquez: Collect, aggregate, and visualize a data ecosystem's metadata…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.87 'Sunopsis, Fast Data and Oracle Data Integration's Data Mesh' with Special Guest Jeff Pollock 49:01
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jeff Pollock, Vice President Product Development for Fast Data at Oracle, to talk about the history of Oracle Data Integration from Warehouse Builder and Sunopsis to the move to the cloud and today’s distributed “data mesh”, based around Oracle’s fast data product, Oracle GoldenGate. Technology Brief : Dynamic Data Fabric and Trusted Data Mesh using the Oracle GoldenGate Platform Data Mesh Part 1: Future of Data Integration with a Deep Dive into GoldenGate, Kafka and Spark How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh An Introduction to Real-Time Data Integration Drill to Detail Ep.22 'SnapLogic's Enterprise Integration Cloud' With Special Guest Craig Stewart…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep. 86 'Reverse ETL, Hightouch and CDW as CDP' with Special Guest Tejas Manohar 46:01
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Tejas Manohar from Hightouch to talk about the concept of "reverse ETL", his journey from working on Segment's Personas product to co-founding Hightouch and his recent guest post on the Fivetran Blog, "Why Your Customer Data Platform Should Be the Data Warehouse". Why Your Customer Data Platform Should Be the Data Warehouse Hightouch Ushers In The Era Of Operational Analytics Hightouch homepage Customer 360 Data Warehousing and Sync to Hubspot using BigQuery, dbt, Looker and Hightouch Why (and How) Customer Data Warehouses are the New Customer Data Platform Drill to Detail Ep.76 'Segment, Ecosystems and Customer Data Platforms' with Special Guest Calvin French-Owen…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.85 'Data Quality, Data Trust and Preventing Data Downtime' with Special Guest Barr Moses 43:36
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThe Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with Mark joined by special guest Barr Moses to talk about data-driven customer success, data quality and the story behind her new data reliability startup Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo - Data reliability delivered dbt Data Source Freshness Delivering End-to-End Data Observability with Looker and Monte Carlo Data Observability: How to Build Your Own Anomaly Detectors Using SQL Why Testing Your Data Is Insufficient…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.84 '2020 Review & Coalesce Special' with Special Guests Tristan Handy & Stewart Bryson 52:38
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThe Drill to Detail Podcast returns for an end-of-year and Coalesce 2020 special episode, with Mark Rittman joined by Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics along with Stewart Bryson from Red Pill Analytics. Coalesce 2020 Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen Snowflake Stock Has More Than Tripled Since Its IPO. CEO Frank Slootman Explains What’s Next. Fishtown Analytics Announces $12.9M Fundraise A License to build the future…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.83 ‘Abstracting, Extending and Automating Looker Development with Futuremodel’ with Special Guest Davis Clark 45:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Davis Clark, Founder at Futuremodel, to talk about democratizing Looker development by automating and abstracting the process of LookML development. Futuremodel Homepage Futuremodel Early Access Beta Program
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.82 'Looker Development, Automated Testing and Spectacles' with Special Guest Josh Temple 45:43
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Josh Temple, Analytics Engineer at Spotify to talk about analytics development, automated testing and Spectacles, an open-source tool and SaaS service that automatically tests your LookML to ensure Looker always runs smoothly for your users. Spectacles product homepage and early access program Data Tests in Looker Automated testing in the modern data warehouse #JOIN19 - Using Customized Open-Source Tools With LookML Continuous Integration and Automated Build Testing with dbtCloud…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.81 'Meltano, Singer Taps and Open-Source Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Douwe Maan 1:10:52
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by GitLab.com Lead Developer Douwe Maan to discuss the history of the open-source Meltano project and its recent refocus on becoming the "glue" that creates open-source data pipelines, using plugin technologies such as Singer Taps and dbt transformations. Meltano homepage and quickstart demo Hey, data teams - We're working on a tool just for you Revisiting the Meltano strategy: a return to our roots Why we are building an open source platform for ELT pipelines Singer - Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL dbt Models - Everything is a select Meltano Slack Community…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.80 'Data Architecture and Data Teams at Hubspot' with Special Guest James Densmore 53:32
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Hubspot's Director of Data Infrastructure James Densmore to talk about distributed and remote-friendly data teams, DevOps with dbt and Apache Airflow and career path options for data engineers. How should I structure my data team? A look inside HubSpot, Away, M.M. LaFleur, and more (dbt Blog) Software Engineers do not Need to Become Managers to Thrive (Data Liftoff Blog) The Misunderstood Data Engineer (Data Liftoff Blog) Modular ELT (Data Liftoff Blog) Test SQL Pipelines against Production Clones using DBT and Snowflake (Dan Gooden) HubSpot Data Actions, Harvest Analytical Workflows and Looker Data Platform (Rittman Analytics Blog)…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.79 'Scaling the Modern Data Analytics Stack' with Special Guests Drew Banin and Stewart Bryson 55:48
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by special guests Drew Banin, co-founder of Fishtown Analytics and maintainer of dbt (data build tool) and Stewart Bryson, long-time friend of the show and CEO/Co-founder of Red Pill Analytics to talk about scaling modern data stack projects from startups to the enterprise; how do you deal with data quality issues when there’s no central record of customers, how do we introduce data governance, enterprise requirements and meet the needs of enterprise architects and how do we scale concepts such as agile and analytics as engineering beyond our initial champion and data team? The dbt Viewpoint Fishtown Analytics and Drew Banin Multi-Channel Marketing Attribution using Segment, Google BigQuery, dbt and Looker Getting Started with dbt . Red Pill Analytics…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen 39:43
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this special episode of Drill to Detail Mark Rittman is joined by Seth Rosen, Co-Founder and Principal at Hashpath to talk about the impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic shutdown on the business of analytics and product startups, the work being done in the community to help find a cure and the role that data and analytics can have in accelerating the post-shutdown recovery. “A COVID-19 Dashboard for Massachusetts using Looker and BigQuery” - Hashpath.com blog “The Virus Survival Strategy for your Startup" “COVID-19: Implications for business” - McKinsey “As COVID-19 data sets become more accessible, novel coronavirus pandemic may be most visualized ever” - ZDNet.com “Leave COVID-19 analysis to the experts” - Japan Times…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.77 ' Keboola, Scaling Analytics and Winning the Looker Join Hackathon' with Special Guest Pavel Dolezal 46:08
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWe return with a new episode featuring Keboola CEO Pavel Dolezal on scaling analytics adoption beyond technical developers, the original story behind Keboola and how their team and friends won the recent Looker Join 2019 Hackathon event in San Francisco. Keboola homepage “DataOps is NOT Just DevOps for Data” - Data Kitchen Blog - Looker Brings the Data Community Together at JOIN 2019…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.76 'Segment, Ecosystems and Customer Data Platforms' with Special Guest Calvin French-Owen 46:28
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in the final Drill to Detail Podcast episode of the year by Calvin French-Owen, co-founder and CTO at Segment to talk about Segment's founding story, partner ecosystems and their new customer data platform service, Segment Personas. analytics.js: The hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any web application (Github.com) The Million Dollar Engineering Problem (Segment Blog) Tracking Customer Email Marketing Interactions using Segment Personas and Connections (Rittman Analytics Blog) Segment Personas product homepage…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.75 'Bootstrapping an Early-Stage SaaS Analytics Consultancy' with Special Guest Olivier Dupuis 1:10:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this specially-extended episode of Drill to Detail by Olivier Dupuis, founder of Lantrn Analytics to share his experiences growing a product analytics business using today’s modern, modular SaaS analytics tools Lantrns Analytics Rittman Analytics "How it Works" - Lantrns Analytics "How Rittman Analytics does Analytics: Modern BI Stack Operational Analytics using Looker, Stitch, dbt and Google BigQuery" - Rittman Analytics Blog…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.74 'Accelerating Oracle from Express to Analytic Views' with Special Guest Bud Endress 53:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Bud Endress, Director, Product Management at Oracle to talk about the evolution of Oracle's query acceleration and in-database OLAP features from the acquisition Express Server back in the 90's to today's Autonomous Data Warehouse and Analytic Views. Analytic Views, Oracle Database 12.2 … and Oracle’s Reboot of OLAP now Everything’s In-Memory (and SQL) Oracle9i OLAP uncovered Overview of Analytic Views…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep. 73 'Luck, Thinking Different and Designing Looker Data Platform' with Special Guest Colin Zima 55:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThe Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new season with Mark Rittman joined in this episode by Colin Zima, VP of Product and Chief Analytics Officer at Looker to talk about luck, thinking differently and the deliberate design choices behind Looker Data Platform. JOIN 2018 - Colin Zima Product Keynote - Part 1 GrowthHackers.com AMA with Colin Zima, Chief Analytics Officer & VP of Product at Looker HotelTonight - Story of a Modern Data-Driven Business Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.72 'Conversion Rate Optimization and Other CRAP' with Special Guest Bhav Patel 51:44
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this final Drill to Detail Episode before we take a break for the summer, Mark Rittman is joined by Bhav Patel, founder of the London Conversion Rate, Optimization and Product Analytics Meetup to talk about Conversion Rate Optimization, Experimentation and A/B Testing, Customer vs. Product Analytics, Attribution and Personalization ... and the story behind the CRAP Meetups. CRAP Talks: CRO, Analytics and Product London CRAP Talks on Slack Analytics, BigQuery, Looker and How I Became an Internet Meme for 48 Hours (CRAP Talks presentation) McDonald’s is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a more customized drive-thru (TechCrunch)…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent Graziano 1:01:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by returning guest Kent Graziano, Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake, to talk about Snowflake Data Warehouse's cloud-first architecture and recent product announcements at Snowflake Summit 2019. Try Snowflake Data Warehouse for free Watch Summit 2019 Keynotes Snowflake Materialized Views: A Fast, Zero-Maintenance, Accurate Solution Modern Data Sharing: The Opportunities Are Endless Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.70 'Oracle Analytics, Luke Skywalker and the Remarkable Return of Enterprise Analytics' featuring Special Guest Bruno Aziza 39:33
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Bruno Aziza, Group Vice President, AI, Data Analytics & Cloud at Oracle to talk about the recently-updated product roadmap for Oracle Analytics, Oracle BI in the marketplace, recent acquisitions in the analytics marketplace and the recent Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch, California. Oracle Analytics Summit Oracle Analytics Summit Recap Oracle Analytics for Applications: Oracle Analytics Summit Product Tour Oracle Analytics: Honing 18+ products down to a single brand…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.69 'Looker, Tableau and Consolidation in the BI Industry' featuring Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson 56:37
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman, Founder and CEO of Rittman Analytics is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by returning guests Tristan Handy, Founder and CEO of Fishtown Analytics and Stewart Bryson, Founder and CEO of Red Pill Analytics to talk about the recent acquisitions of Looker by Google Cloud Platform and Tableau by Salesforce, the wider story about consolidation in the BI industry and whether the trend in analytics tools is towards enterprise features … or open source? Five Thoughts on the Looker Acquisition by GCPCloud - Mark Rittman, Twitter Thread A Wave of Acquisitions in Business Intelligence - Tristan Handy, Fishtown Analytics Blog Google to acquire Looker - Thomas Kurian Blog Post Google Cloud and Looker (PDF) Siebel Analytics - The Jewel in the Project Fusion Crown? - Mark Rittman’s Oracle Weblog via Internet Archive Applications in Looker Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Tableau Salesforce.com's Tableau Acquisition: Admitting Organic Innovation Failure?…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.68 ‘Confluent, Event-First Thinking and Streaming Real-Time Analytics’ With Special Guests Robin Moffatt and Ricardo Ferreira and Special Host Stewart Bryson 40:46
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this special edition of the Drill to Detail Podcast hosted by Stewart Bryson, CEO and Co-Founder of Red Pill Analytics, he is joined by Robin Moffatt and Ricardo Ferreira, Developer Advocates at Confluent, to talk about Apache Kafka and Confluent, event-first thinking and streaming real-time analytics. Confluent Download: https://www.confluent.io/download/ Demo: https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-demo/ Slack group: http://cnfl.io/slack Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/confluent-platform From Zero to Hero with Kafka Connect: http://rmoff.dev/ksldn19l-kafka-connect-slides No More Silos: Integrating Databases and Apache Kafka: http://rmoff.dev/ksny19-no-more-silos The Changing Face of ETL: Event-Driven Architectures for Data Engineers: http://rmoff.dev/changing-face-of-etl…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.67 'Thinking Probabilistically and Scaling-Out the Modern BI Stack' with Special Guest Dylan Baker 37:55
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Dylan Baker, freelance analytics consultant, to talk about thinking probabalistically, analytics within venture-funded startups, devops and its role in scaling-out the modern BI stack. dbanalytics.co lookeraccess utility Annie Duke – Wanna Bet? – [Invest Like the Best, EP.125] London dbt Meetup #2…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.66 'ETL, Incorta and the Death of the Star Schema' with Special Guest Matthew Halliday 50:24
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Matthew Halliday to talk about the challenge of ETL and analytics on complex relational OLTP data models, previous attempts to solve these problems with products such as Oracle Essbase and Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca and how those experiences, and others, led to his current role as co-founder and VP of Products at Incorta. The Death of the Star Schema: 3 Key Innovations Driving the Rapid Demise Accelerating Analytics with Direct Data Mapping Accelerating Operational Reporting & Analytics for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Extract Transform Load (ETL) E-Business Suite Extensions for Endeca: Technical Considerations The Pain of Operational Reporting Solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.65 'Bootstrapping, Growth Hacking and Supermetrics Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers' with Special Guest Mikael Thuneberg 34:33
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by CEO and Founder of Supermetrics, Mikael Thuneberg, to tell the story of how a mention in the official Google Analytics Blog and a prize of a t-shirt led to him founding and bootstrapping a €2M ARR marketing analytics business that’s probably the most important software vendor the Drill to Detail audience has never heard of, and who recently moved into the data pipelines-as-a-service market in collaboration with Google Cloud Platform and the Google BigQuery team. Announcing Supermetrics for BigQuery: Get a marketing data warehouse up and running in minutes (Supermetrics blog) Supermetrics, Google BigQuery and Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers (Rittman Analytics blog)…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani 59:47
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jordan Tigani, Director of Product Management at Google for Google BigQuery, to talk about the history of BigQuery and its technology origins in Dremel; how BigQuery has evolved since its original release to handle a wide range of data warehouse workloads; and new features announced for BigQuery at Google Next’19 including BI Engine, Storage API, Connected Sheets and a range of new data connectors from Supermetrics and Fivetran. Modern Data Warehousing with BigQuery (Cloud Next '19) Modern data warehousing with BigQuery: a Q&A with Engineering Director Jordan Tigani Introduction to BigQuery BI Engine BigQuery Storage API Overview Supermetrics and Fivetran BigQuery connectors Drill to Detail Ep.2. 'Future of SQL on Hadoop', With Special Guest Dan McClary Drill to Detail Ep.31 'Dremel, Druid and Data Modeling on Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Dan McClary…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.63 'Stitch, Talend and the Evolution of Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Jake Stein 42:30
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by returning Special Guest Jake Stein, former co-founder and CEO of Stitch and now SVP of Stitch at Talend to talk about the evolution of the data pipeline-as-a-service, data catalogs and data governance and the vision behind Talend’s acquisition of Stitch. ”The Vision behind Talend's acquisition of Stitch” “Stitch is joining Talend” “dbt: Analytics Engineering that Works” Talend homepage…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.62 'Enterprise analytics, DW Modernization and the rediscovery of Data Governance' With Special Guest Mike Ferguson 44:52
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Mike Ferguson, long-term analyst, consultant and Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies to talk about data warehouse modernization, analytics and big data project success within enterprise customers and the re-emergence of interest in data governance and master data management within the industry.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.46 'Market Trends and Findings from the BI Survey 17' With Special Guest Dr. Carsten Bange 55:02
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by Dr. Carsten Bange from BARC to talk about findings from the recently completed BI Survey 17 including the continuing move to modern BI platforms and self-service desktop tools, analytics adoption trends and the increasing incorporation of BI functionality within business applications, the surprising topicality of master data management and data governance ... and whatever happened to Nigel Pendse and his legendary OLAP Report?…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.45 'Tellius, YellowFin and the State of AI in Analytics Today' With Special Guest Jen Underwood 57:45
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by returning special guest Jen Underwood to talk about what's new and innovative in the BI and analytics industry right now, and how AI and machine learning are this year's data discovery and data visualization.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.44 'Pandas, Apache Arrow and In-Memory Analytics' With Special Guest Wes McKinney 46:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by Wes McKinney, to talk about the origins of the Python Pandas open-source package for data analysis and his subsequent work as a contributor to the Kudu (incubating) and Parquet projects within the Apache Software Foundation and Arrow, an in-memory data structure specification for use by engineers building data systems and the de-facto standard for columnar in-memory processing and interchange.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.43 'Oracle Analytics, Data Visualization Desktop 4.0 and The Art of Product Management' with Special Guest Mike Durran 53:00
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined by Mike Durran from the Oracle Analytics Product Management team in this UKOUG Tech’17 special to talk about his route into product management via the Oracle Discoverer BI tool, Oracle’s latest product in this space Oracle Data Visualization Desktop 4 and its new features, and Mike’s upcoming sessions at the UK Oracle User Group’s Tech’17 event next week in Birmingham, UK.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.42 'Evaluex, ML and Optimizing BigQuery & Athena' With Special Guest Avi Zloof 43:50
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined in this episode by Avi Zloof from Evaluex to talk about the new world of elastically-provisioned cloud-hosted analytic databases such as Google BigQuery and Amazon Athena, how their pricing model and vendor strategy differs from the traditional database vendors, and how machine learning can be used to automate performance tuning and optimize workloads in this new world of large-scale distributed query and storage.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.41 'Developing with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform' With Special Guest Felipe Hoffa 1:00:12
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedDrill to Detail Ep.41 'Developing with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform' With Special Guest Felipe Hoffa Mark is joined in this episode by Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate Felipe Hoffa, talking about getting started as a developer using Google BigQuery along with Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Dataprep and Google Cloud Platform's machine learning APIs.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.40 'Fivetran's Middleware for SaaS Data' With Special Guest Taylor Brown 34:02
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Taylor Brown from Fivetran to talk about middleware for SaaS data, their focus on integrations with SaaS vendors and how this differentiates their offering, his thoughts on packaged analytic applications announced at the recent Looker Join conference ... and where the name "FiveTran" came from.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.39 'Gluent Update and Offloading to the Cloud' with Special Guest Michael Rainey
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.38 'Oracle's Big Data Strategy Before OOW' with Special Guest Jean-Pierre Dijcks 59:05
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedDrill to Detail returns for a new season with special guest Jean-Pierre Dijcks, to talk about Oracle's Big Data Strategy now and in the past, thoughts on distributed query and storage in the cloud, and previewing themes and announcements to look forward to at the upcoming Oracle Open World 2017 event running in San Francisco next month.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.37 'How Essbase Won the OLAP Wars' With Special Guest Cameron Lackpour 1:16:59
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this Summer Special episode by none other than Cameron Lackpour, Essbase expert and Oracle ACE Director, to talk about why and how Essbase won the OLAP wars, how Essbase Server works and the role it now plays in Oracle Analytics Cloud and his involvement with user groups over the years. In this specially extended edition he also gives us his reading recommendations for while you're at the pool or, as he will be, out camping, and he also shares his predictions for what we'll hear from Oracle and the analytics industry when he, and Drill to Detail, returns in the autumn after a well-deserved summer break.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.36 'Marketing Analytics, AI and the Rise of the Omni-channel Consumer' With Special Guest Mark Madsen 49:14
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Industry Analyst Mark Madsen to talk about marketing analytics and the rise of the omni-channel consumer, the use of AI in analytics and personalization and what this all means for brands, for advertisers and for marketers.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.35 'Stitch Data, Singer and ETL for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Jake Stein 48:09
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode Mark is joined by Jake Stein to talk about Stitch Data and their ETL tool for data engineers, the new open-source project Singer and his experiences building a software startup that both partners and competes with the big cloud platform vendors.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.34 'Qlik, MSAS and the Strategy of Data Analytics' with Special Guest Donald Farmer 55:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Donald Farmer to talk about his work at Microsoft on SQL Server Analysis Services and Integration Services, why he moved to Qlik and the challenges of evolving a BI product strategy from focusing on desktops to focusing on the enterprise, and some advice for customers, software vendors and partners working with data and analytics tools.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy 48:21
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode Mark is joined by Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics to talk about building-out analytics functions in high-growth startups and three related blog posts on this topic.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.32 'What Really Works in eCommerce' With Special Guest Will Browne 29:18
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined by Qubit colleague Will Browne to talk about his recent academic paper co-authored with Mike Swarbrick Jones on what techniques are most successful in influencing and retaining eCommerce customers, using analytics and statistical analysis-at-scale to analyze and understand 20 billion user journeys held in Qubit's Google Cloud Platform-hosted Customer Data Store.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.61 'Kaggle, DataRobot and How to Be a ... Zillionaire!' With Special Guest Jordan Meyer 37:30
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by DataRobot’s Jordan Meyer to discuss Kaggle, machine learning, deep neural networks and his team’s strategy to win the $1m ZIllow Prize, beating over 1000 other teams to come up with the most accurate home value prediction. Zillow Prize: Zillow's Home Value Prediction (Zestimate) | Kaggle And the Zillow Prize Goes to…Team ChaNJestimate! Meet the ‘Zillow Prize’ winners who get $1M and bragging rights for beating the Zestimate https://github.com/jordanmeyer Data Scientist Spotlight: Jordan Meyer Deep Learning definition on Wikipedia ABC - How To Be A Zillionaire (Wall Street Mix)…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb 35:44
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThe Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with our host, Mark Rittman, joined by Lloyd Tabb, Founder CTO and Chairman of Looker to talk about the foundational story of Looker and LookML, query latency and semantic models, analytic engines and code IDEs, analytics developer workflows and the rise of cloud elastically-scalable databases, packaged applications and embedded analytics and why learning (and loving) are the long-term keys to analytics and business success. Looker JOIN: The Tour 2019 “7 Reasons Looker Built a New Language for Data” “How do you decide what to model in dbt vs LookML?” - Tristan Handy “Looker co-founder finds freedom and inspiration on his bike rides” - BizJournals.com Looker Packaged Applications “A simple explanation of Symmetric Aggregates or: Why On Earth Does My SQL Look Like That?” - Daniel Mintz Drill to Detail Ep.48 'Mondrian OLAP, Apache Calcite and Database Dis-Aggregation' With Special Guest Julian Hyde…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.59 'Looker, dbt and Digital Analytics Today' With Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson 44:48
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this Looker JOIN 2018 Special by long-term friends of the show Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics, and Stewart Bryson from Red Pill Analytics to talk about dbt and enabling data engineering for data analysts; the state of modern data analytics consulting today, and what we’re looking forward to hearing about at next week’s Looker JOIN 2018 conference in San Francisco, CA. Looker JOIN 2018, San Francisco dbt (data build tool) “Future Proof your Analytics Stack”…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.58 'Candy Crush Saga, Analytics and Mobile Gaming' With Special Guest Jonathan Palmer 46:00
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jonathan Palmer from King Games to talk about the role of analytics in the development of Candy Crush Saga and other King games, their use of Looker along with Google BigQuery and Exasol to provide analytics capabilities to their game designers and product owners and his approach to doing all of this in a fast-moving, technology-driven internet business. - Candy Crush Saga article on Wikipedia - King Games company website - “How King Games is Crushing Games Data” DataIQ article - Looker and King Games case study - Jonathan Palmer on LinkedIn…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.57 'WhereScape Red and Data Warehouse Automation' With Special Guest Neil Barton 36:15
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Neil Barton, Chief Technology Officer at WhereScape to talk about metadata-driven data warehouse design, automating the build and management of data warehouse infrastructure and the thinking behind his company's WhereScape Red and WhereScape 3D tools.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.56 'Essbase Cloud, Analytics Cloud and Cloud Analytics Consulting' with Special Guest Matt Yorke 1:20:32
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this specially-extended episode just before ODTUG KScope'18, Mark Rittman is joined by Matt Yorke from Qubix to talk about Oracle Essbase Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and the business of Oracle Cloud analytics consulting Essbase Cloud is Here! Oracle Analytics Partner Forum 2018 Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud ODTUG KScope’18 Matt Yorke on LinkedIn…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.55 'Snowplow, Data Pipelines and Event-Level Digital Analytics' with Special Guest Yali Sassoon 48:33
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Yali Sassoon from Snowplow to talk about data pipelines and Hadoop in the cloud; how web analytics evolved from counting pageviews to today's event-level analysis of consumer behavoir across all digital channels; why digital analytics is hard but interesting; and Snowplow's approach to building a successful hybrid open-source/commercial software business that competes successfully with megavendors such as Google and Adobe. Snowplow website Snowplow Insights commercial hosted service details Snowplow Open-Source Evolving Your Pipeline - Yali Sassoon - Snowplow Berlin Meetup #3 Snowplow on Looker…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.54 'DataRobot & Machine Learning Automation' with Special Guest Greg Michaelson 50:33
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Greg Michaelson from DataRobot, talking about the benefits of automating the discovery and automation of analytics and machine learning in financial services and other industries. DataRobot: Automated Machine Learning for Predictive Modeling DataRobot for Business Analysts Automated Machine Learning Drives Intelligent Business (Jen Underwood, Information Week article) Marketing Attribution, Artificial Intelligence, and Game Theory Greg Michaelson LinkedIn Profile…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.53 'ThoughtSpot, Search and AI-Powered BI' With Special Guest Doug Bordonaro 39:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by ThoughtSpot's Chief Data Evangelist Doug Bordonaro to talk about the value of data, issues around trust and consent raised by the EU's new GDPR regulations, and how ThoughtSpot are applying ideas from search engines combined with artificial intelligence smarts to surface insights and drive real value for business users from their analytics investment. Value Becomes the 5th “V” in Big Data Factors ThoughtSpot - Search and AI-Driven Analytics for Humans The ThoughtSpot Blog Doug Bordonaro on LinkedIn “Will GDPR Make Machine Learning Illegal?”…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.52 'Lyft, Ride-Share Analytics and ETL Developer Productivity ' With Special Guest Mark Grover 48:46
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Grover LinkedIn Profile and Github Profile "Hadoop Application Architectures" "Drill to Detail Ep. 7 'Apache Spark and Hadoop Application Architectures' Lyft Engineering Blog "Software Engineer to Product Manager" blog by Gwen Shapira "Introduction to the Oracle Data Integrator Topology" from the Oracle Data Integrator docs site Apache Airflow and Amazon Kinesis homepages "Experimentation in a Ridesharing Marketplace" by Nicholas Chamandy, Head of Data Science at Lyft "How Uber Eats Works with Restaurants" "Deliveroo has built a bunch of tiny kitchens to feed more hungry Londoners" - Wired.co.uk…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.51 'Druid, Imply and OLAP Analysis on Event-Level Datasets' With Special Guest Fangjin Yang 36:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Special Guest Fangjin Yang to talk about the history of Druid, a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store originally developed by the team at Metamarkets to provide fast ad-hoc access to large amounts of event-level marketing data, and his work at Imply to commercialise Druid and build a suite of supporting query and data management tools. Druid project homepage Druid - A Real-Time Analytical Data Store (pdf) Druid - Learning about the Druid Architecture Imply.io homepage Druid, Imply and Looker 5 bring OLAP Analysis to BigQuery’s Data Warehouse…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.50 'Agile BI, Karl Marx and Our Man from Moscow' With Special Guests Stewart Bryson and Alex Gorbachev 1:10:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this 50th Episode Special by our original guest on the first episode of Drill to Detail, Stewart Bryson, to talk about developing agile BI applications using FiveTran, SnowflakeDB and Looker and his recent work developing a BI solution for Google Play Marketing using Google Data Studio and Google Cloud Platform. We're also joined later in the show by Alex Gorbachev from Pythian, our mystery guest who Stewart then interviews flawlessly armed only with a set of questions given to him as the guest was unveiled ... though be sure to listen past the final closing music for the bonus out-takes. #115 Google Play Marketing with Dom Elliott and Stewart Bryson The Next-Generation Jump Program The Data Sharehouse is Here From Data Warehouse to Data Sharehouse Alex Gorbachev profile on Pythian.com…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.49 'Trifacta, Google Cloud Dataprep and Data Wranging for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Will Davis 45:54
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Will Davis from Trifacta to talk about the public beta of Google Cloud Dataprep, Trifacta's data wrangling platform and topics including metadata management, data quality and data management for big data and cloud data sources. Google Cloud Dataprep on Google Cloud Platform "Google Cloud Dataprep: Spreadsheet-Style Data Wrangling Powered by Google Cloud Dataflow" "A New Cloud-Based Data Prep Solution from Google & Trifacta" Trifacta website "A Breakthrough Approach to Exploring and Preparing Data" Trifacta platform architecture "Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Data Quality Matters" "How to Put an Effective Metadata Strategy in Place"…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.48 'Mondrian OLAP, Apache Calcite and Database Dis-Aggregation' With Special Guest Julian Hyde 1:02:15
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like Liked- Oracle Designer page on Oracle.com - Bitmap Index page on Wikipedia - Mondrian project page on Github - Mondrian OLAP Server page on Wikipedia - MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) page on Wikipedia - Julian Hyde blog - Apache Calcite project homepage - Apache Calcite Introduction and Overview deck - Streaming SQL presentation at Apex Big Data World 2017, Mountain View, California…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.47 'Business Analytics 2018 Predictive and Best-Practice Christmas & New Year Special' With Special Guest Christian Berg 1:45:25
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined by long-term industry veteran and friend Christian Berg to talk about surviving fifteen years as a contractor in analytics industry, changes he's seen in the market and in how project are approached, the value in getting involved in the community, and in a specially extended Christmas and New Year edition we look back at what was topical in 2017 and what are Christian's predictions for 2018 ... and appoint Christian as Head of our Best Practices Found on the Internet.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.31 'Dremel, Druid and Data Modeling on Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Dan McClary 50:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined by returning special guest Dan McClary to talk about data modeling and database design on distributed query engines such as Google BigQuery, the underlying Dremel technology and Capacitor storage format that enables this cloud distributed data warehouse-as-a-service platform to scale to petabyte-size tables spanning tens of thousands of servers, and techniques to optimize BigQuery table joins using nested fields, table partitioning and denormalization .…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.30 "AI, ML & Oracle's Adaptive Intelligence Applications" with Special Guest Jack Berkowitz 31:17
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedOracle's Jack Berkowitz joins Mark Rittman to talk about a new category of continuously adapting, self-learning applications being built-out by Oracle that use machine learning together with enterprise and third-party data to create a new generation of intelligent HR, CX, SCM and ERP SaaS apps.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.29 'New-World BI Development using BigQuery, Looker, Kakfa and Streamsets' With Special Guest Stewart Bryson 1:00:57
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedStewart Bryson returns to the show to join Mark Rittman to discuss new-world BI and data warehousing development using Google BigQuery and Amazon Athena, Apache Kafka and StreamSets, and talks about his experiences with Looker, the cloud-native BI tool that brings semantic modeling and modern development practices to the world of business intelligence.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.28 'Oracle Analytics, 12c and Data Visualization' with Special Guest Adrian Ward 41:24
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Independent Consultant Adrian Ward to talk about Oracle Business Analytics, Data Visualization, the BI Applications and his new book on Oracle Business Intelligence 12c.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.27 'Apache Kafka, Streaming Data Integration and Schema Registry' with Special Guest Gwen Shapira 42:54
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Gwen Shapira from Confluent to talk about Apache Kafka, streaming data integration and how it differs from batch-based, GUI-developed ETL development, the problem with architects, exactly-once processing and how data governance is coming to Kafka development with Confluent's new schema registry server.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.26 'Airflow, Superset & The Rise of the Data Engineer' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin 1:00:32
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Maxime Beauchemin to talk about analytics and data integration at Airbnb, the Apache Airflow and Airbnb Superset open-source projects, and his recent Medium article on "The Rise of the Data Engineer"
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.25 'SAP BusinessObjects Analytics, AI and Digital Transformation' With Special Guest Timo Elliott 44:51
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Timo Elliott, originally of Business Objects and now Innovation Evangelist for SAP, to talk about the origins of self-service BI with Business Objects' innovative "Universe" and the role analytics now plays within SAP; why analytics is the most important function within your organization and why the vast majority of analytics is still reporting (which isn't so bad); and the role AI and other innovations will play in analytics going in the future.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.24 'Tom Sawyer Software, Graph + Spatial Analytics .... and why a Tweet goes Viral' With Special Guest Kevin Madden 48:56
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Kevin Madden and Josh Feingold to talk about graph + spatial analytics, Tom Sawyer Software ... and why a tweet goes viral
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.23 ‘Looker, BigQuery and Analytics on Big Data’ With Special Guest Daniel Mintz 47:29
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Daniel Mintz from Looker to talk about BI and analytics on Google BigQuery, data modelling on the new generation of cloud-based distributed-data warehousing platforms, and Looker's re-introduction of semantic models to big data analytics developers
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.22 'SnapLogic's Enterprise Integration Cloud' With Special Guest Craig Stewart 1:00:01
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Craig Stewart to talk about application and data integration, ODI and Sunopsis, SnapLogic's approach to hybrid on-premise/cloud integration and the rise of data preparation and dataflow-based cloud integration tools.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.21 'The Fall, and Rise, of Microsoft BI' With Special Guest Chris Webb 55:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Independent Consultant Chris Webb to talk about MDX & DAX, MSAS and SQL Server and the fall ... and rise, of Microsoft BI
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.20 'MapR Platform Differentation, Scaling Hadoop and Microservices' With Special Guest Tugdall Grall 42:39
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by MapR's Tugdall Grall to talk about MapR's platform differentation and relationship with open-source Hadoop, scaling and streaming, microservices, and MapR's platform strategy around big data workloads in the cloud.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.19 'Elasticsearch, Elastic Stack & Elastic Cloud' With Special Guest Mark Walkom 26:26
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Elastic's Mark Walkom to talk about Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and the Elastic Stack; business models built-around an open-source software core; and their move into cloud services with Elastic Cloud
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.18 'Oracle's Cloud Analytics and Data Visualization Strategy' With Special Guest Vasu Murthy 53:12
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Vasu Murthy, Oracle's Senior Director for Product Management of Oracle Business Analytics to talk about what's new with OBIEE and Oracle Data Visualization and the recently released Oracle Analytics Cloud, a dive into the technical architecture of these new additions to Oracle's BI platform, and Oracle's vision for hybrid on-prem/cloud analytics.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.17 ‘Mode 1 Analytics and the Future of Cloud DWs’ With Special Guest Rick Greenwald 54:12
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Gartner analyst and ex-Oracle Database Cloud Service PM Rick Greenwald to talk about IT’s continuing (and essential!) role in corporate BI&DW deployments and the debate around Mode1 vs. Mode2 Analytics, how we got here, and the future of data warehousing database platforms as we move into the cloud.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.16 'Qubit, Visitor Cloud & Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Alex Olivier 40:18
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Alex Olivier from Qubit to talk about their platform journey from on-premise Hadoop to petabytes of data running in Google Cloud Platform, using Google Cloud Dataflow (aka Apache Beam), Google PubSub and Google BigQuery along with machine learning and analytics to deliver personalisation at-scale for digital retailers around the world.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.15 ‘Modern BI and the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2016’ With Special Guest Cindi Howson 30:32
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Cindi Howson to talk about Modern BI and last year's Gartner BI & Analytics Magic Quadrant, the rise of self-service BI and IT's new role as enabler rather than owner, CIO priorities around BI & Analytics ... and, is the BICC dead?
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.14 ‘Cloudy Big Data Paradigm-Shifting Christmas & New Year Special’ With Special Guest Robin Moffatt 1:06:57
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this Christmas & New Year special episode by none-other than Robin Moffatt, head of R&D at Rittman Mead and an old colleague from my consulting days, to talk about his experiences with Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) for BI + Analytics and how "the devil's in the detail", and to hear his take on what happened in the BI and analytics world in 2016 and what to look out for in 2017.…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.13 ‘Apache Drill, MapR + Bringing Data Discovery to Hadoop & NoSQL’ with Special Guest Neeraja Rentachintala
Mark Rittman is joined by MapR's Neeraja Rentachintala to talk about Apache Drill, Apache Arrow, MapR-DB, extending Hadoop-based data discovery to self-describing file formats and NoSQL databases, and why MapR backed Drill as their strategic SQL-on-Hadoop platform technology.
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Mark Rittman is joined by Gluent's Tanel Poder to talk about Hadoop, Gluent Data Platform, the coming of the hybrid world and how Hadoop will evolve as it moves into the cloud.
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.11 'OLAP, Consulting & BI Past Present + Future' with Special Guest Graham Spicer
Mark Rittman is joined by Graham Spicer to talk about BI past, present and future including the history of Oracle OLAP, running and owning a consulting business over 30 years of changes in the industry, what's hot on the market today, and what skills and techniques are still relevant as we adopt big data products and new methods of analysis…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.10 'Oracle's Big Data Reboot, and Data Storytelling' With Special Guest Stewart Bryson
Mark Rittman is joined once more by Stewart Bryson, talking about Oracle's recent reboot of it's cloud big data platform at Oracle Openworld 2016, thoughts on DataFlowML and comparisons with Google's Cloud DataFlow and Amazon Kinesis, and data storytelling with Oracle Data Visualisation Desktop 2.0
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Mark Rittman is joined by StreamSets' Pat Patterson, talking about data in motion and doing it at scale, the story behind StreamSets and the problem of data drift, and the challenges involved in managing dataflows at scale as a continuous operation
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.8 'Self-Service BI, Data Prep & Big Data Vendor Strategy' with Special Guest Jen Underwood 59:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Jen Underwood to discuss the aftermath of the Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016 and the rise of self-service, Mode-2 analytics; innovation in predictive analytics and data preparation tools, and how the big data cloud vendors are differentiating themselves (or not)
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.7 'Apache Spark, and Hadoop Application Architectures' with Special Guest Mark Grover 40:53
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark is joined by Cloudera's Mark Grover to talk about his work with Apache Spark and Apache Spot, and the book "Hadoop Application Architectures" co-authored with Gwen Shapira, Jonathan Seidman and Ted Malaska
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.6 'Data Capital and the Economics of Big Data' with Special Guest Paul Sonderegger 41:28
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by special guest Paul Sonderegger, Oracle's Big Data Strategist, to talk about Data Capital and the economic impact of big data
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In this episode Mark Rittman is joined by Kent Graziano to answer the questions "Is data modeling now dead", and "is SnowflakeDB the future of analytic data engines in the cloud?" Better Data Modeling: An Introduction to Agile Data Engineering Using Data Vault 2.0 Better Data Modeling: Tips for Enhancing Your Use of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler Kent Graziano Blog Building a Scalable Data Warehouse with Data Vault 2.0 Snowflake Computing Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2016 Gartner press release on their "modern BI platform"…
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.4 'Reference Architectures Revisited' with Special Guest Andrew Bond 57:52
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined in this episode by Oracle's Andrew Bond, to talk about their Big Data Reference Architecture two years on"
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.3 'Apache Kudu and Cloudera's Analytic Platform' with Special Guest Mike Percy 48:56
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Cloudera's Mike Percy, to talk about Apache Kudu, Analytics on Hadoop, and Cloudera's work in this area
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1 Drill to Detail Ep.2. 'Future of SQL on Hadoop', With Special Guest Dan McClary 1:02:59
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Rittman is joined by Dan McClary, ex-Oracle Big Data SQL PM and now working on Google's Storage Division on big data projects, to talk about the future of SQL-on-Hadoop.
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1 Drill To Detail Ep.1. 'After The Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016', With Special Guest Stewart Bryson 1:01:40
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