Drill to Detail
80 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMark Rittman is joined each week by a special guest from the world of business intelligence, analytics and big data.
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Drill to Detail Ep.80 'Data Architecture and Data Teams at Hubspot' with Special Guest James Densmore
May 05, 2020 18:40 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBMark 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 Liftof...
Drill to Detail Ep.79 'Scaling the Modern Data Analytics Stack' with Special Guests Drew Banin and Stewart Bryson
April 20, 2020 21:25 - 55 minutes - 76.6 MBMark 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...
Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen
April 08, 2020 19:50 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBIn 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 Surviv...
Drill to Detail Ep.77 ' Keboola, Scaling Analytics and Winning the Looker Join Hackathon' with Special Guest Pavel Dolezal
January 24, 2020 19:51 - 46 minutes - 26.4 MBWe 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
Drill to Detail Ep.76 'Segment, Ecosystems and Customer Data Platforms' with Special Guest Calvin French-Owen
December 17, 2019 00:00 - 46 minutes - 26.6 MBMark 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 (R...
Drill to Detail Ep.75 'Bootstrapping an Early-Stage SaaS Analytics Consultancy' with Special Guest Olivier Dupuis
November 26, 2019 23:49 - 1 hour - 40.1 MBMark 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
Drill to Detail Ep.74 'Accelerating Oracle from Express to Analytic Views' with Special Guest Bud Endress
November 13, 2019 00:13 - 53 minutes - 30.4 MBMark 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
Drill to Detail Ep. 73 'Luck, Thinking Different and Designing Looker Data Platform' with Special Guest Colin Zima
October 28, 2019 23:10 - 55 minutes - 31.8 MBThe 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...
Drill to Detail Ep.72 'Conversion Rate Optimization and Other CRAP' with Special Guest Bhav Patel
August 05, 2019 10:00 - 51 minutes - 29.6 MBIn 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...
Drill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent Graziano
July 22, 2019 22:18 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBMark 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...
Drill to Detail Ep.70 'Oracle Analytics, Luke Skywalker and the Remarkable Return of Enterprise Analytics' featuring Special Guest Bruno Aziza
July 08, 2019 22:03 - 39 minutes - 22.6 MBMark 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...
Drill to Detail Ep.69 'Looker, Tableau and Consolidation in the BI Industry' featuring Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson
June 24, 2019 11:30 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBMark 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 o...
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
June 17, 2019 13:45 - 40 minutes - 56 MBIn 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/#!f...
Drill to Detail Ep.67 'Thinking Probabilistically and Scaling-Out the Modern BI Stack' with Special Guest Dylan Baker
June 03, 2019 12:51 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBMark 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
Drill to Detail Ep.66 'ETL, Incorta and the Death of the Star Schema' with Special Guest Matthew Halliday
May 27, 2019 20:35 - 50 minutes - 28.8 MBMark 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 Mappi...
Drill to Detail Ep.65 'Bootstrapping, Growth Hacking and Supermetrics Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers' with Special Guest Mikael Thuneberg
May 13, 2019 23:15 - 34 minutes - 19.9 MBMark 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. An...
Drill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani
April 29, 2019 21:51 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBMark 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 Warehous...
Drill to Detail Ep.63 'Stitch, Talend and the Evolution of Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Jake Stein
April 15, 2019 21:20 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBMark 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
Drill to Detail Ep.62 'Enterprise analytics, DW Modernization and the rediscovery of Data Governance' With Special Guest Mike Ferguson
April 03, 2019 09:26 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.61 'Kaggle, DataRobot and How to Be a ... Zillionaire!' With Special Guest Jordan Meyer
March 20, 2019 14:15 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBMark 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 S...
Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb
March 05, 2019 12:02 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBThe 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: ...
Drill to Detail Ep.59 'Looker, dbt and Digital Analytics Today' With Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson
October 02, 2018 15:33 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBMark 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”
Drill to Detail Ep.58 'Candy Crush Saga, Analytics and Mobile Gaming' With Special Guest Jonathan Palmer
July 03, 2018 14:30 - 46 minutes - 63.2 MBMark 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 Crushi...
Drill to Detail Ep.57 'WhereScape Red and Data Warehouse Automation' With Special Guest Neil Barton
June 18, 2018 23:01 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.56 'Essbase Cloud, Analytics Cloud and Cloud Analytics Consulting' with Special Guest Matt Yorke
June 04, 2018 15:43 - 1 hour - 111 MBIn 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
Drill to Detail Ep.55 'Snowplow, Data Pipelines and Event-Level Digital Analytics' with Special Guest Yali Sassoon
May 21, 2018 21:32 - 48 minutes - 66.7 MBMark 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 commer...
Drill to Detail Ep.54 'DataRobot & Machine Learning Automation' with Special Guest Greg Michaelson
May 10, 2018 07:44 - 50 minutes - 69.4 MBMark 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 Michaelso...
Drill to Detail Ep.53 'ThoughtSpot, Search and AI-Powered BI' With Special Guest Doug Bordonaro
April 23, 2018 23:03 - 39 minutes - 45.3 MBMark 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 Thought...
Drill to Detail Ep.52 'Lyft, Ride-Share Analytics and ETL Developer Productivity ' With Special Guest Mark Grover
April 09, 2018 19:45 - 48 minutes - 55.8 MBMark 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 Ube...
Drill to Detail Ep.51 'Druid, Imply and OLAP Analysis on Event-Level Datasets' With Special Guest Fangjin Yang
March 13, 2018 07:38 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBMark 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 Arch...
Drill to Detail Ep.50 'Agile BI, Karl Marx and Our Man from Moscow' With Special Guests Stewart Bryson and Alex Gorbachev
February 27, 2018 08:58 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBMark 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 questi...
Drill to Detail Ep.49 'Trifacta, Google Cloud Dataprep and Data Wranging for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Will Davis
February 05, 2018 23:41 - 45 minutes - 52.5 MBMark 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 Appr...
Drill to Detail Ep.48 'Mondrian OLAP, Apache Calcite and Database Dis-Aggregation' With Special Guest Julian Hyde
January 23, 2018 13:38 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB- 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
Drill to Detail Ep.47 'Business Analytics 2018 Predictive and Best-Practice Christmas & New Year Special' With Special Guest Christian Berg
December 26, 2017 14:22 - 1 hour - 121 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.46 'Market Trends and Findings from the BI Survey 17' With Special Guest Dr. Carsten Bange
December 19, 2017 22:50 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBMark 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?
Drill to Detail Ep.45 'Tellius, YellowFin and the State of AI in Analytics Today' With Special Guest Jen Underwood
December 13, 2017 22:31 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.44 'Pandas, Apache Arrow and In-Memory Analytics' With Special Guest Wes McKinney
December 08, 2017 00:25 - 46 minutes - 53.2 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.43 'Oracle Analytics, Data Visualization Desktop 4.0 and The Art of Product Management' with Special Guest Mike Durran
November 30, 2017 14:56 - 53 minutes - 60.7 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.42 'Evaluex, ML and Optimizing BigQuery & Athena' With Special Guest Avi Zloof
November 12, 2017 22:53 - 43 minutes - 50.2 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.41 'Developing with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform' With Special Guest Felipe Hoffa
October 30, 2017 17:21 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBDrill 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.40 'Fivetran's Middleware for SaaS Data' With Special Guest Taylor Brown
October 16, 2017 08:10 - 34 minutes - 38.9 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.39 'Gluent Update and Offloading to the Cloud' with Special Guest Michael Rainey
October 03, 2017 19:22 - 68.5 MBIn this episode Mark is joined by ex-colleague and now Technical Advisor to Gluent, Michael Rainey, to talk about hybrid platforms and Gluent's new cloud offload capability, the Hadoop market in-general and his thoughts on data engineering and the recently-released AWS Glue data integration service. Gluent Cloud Sync – Sharing Data to Enable Analytics in the Cloud Gluent Case Studies Gluent Data Platform Overview Amazon Glue The Rise of the Data Engineer and The Downfall of the Data Eng...
Drill to Detail Ep.38 'Oracle's Big Data Strategy Before OOW' with Special Guest Jean-Pierre Dijcks
September 19, 2017 20:08 - 59 minutes - 67.6 MBDrill 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.37 'How Essbase Won the OLAP Wars' With Special Guest Cameron Lackpour
August 01, 2017 07:51 - 1 hour - 106 MBMark 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 wha...
Drill to Detail Ep.36 'Marketing Analytics, AI and the Rise of the Omni-channel Consumer' With Special Guest Mark Madsen
July 24, 2017 18:02 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.35 'Stitch Data, Singer and ETL for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Jake Stein
July 17, 2017 22:41 - 48 minutes - 66.1 MBIn 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.34 'Qlik, MSAS and the Strategy of Data Analytics' with Special Guest Donald Farmer
July 12, 2017 15:09 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy
July 03, 2017 20:01 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBIn 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.32 'What Really Works in eCommerce' With Special Guest Will Browne
June 26, 2017 16:44 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBMark 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.
Drill to Detail Ep.31 'Dremel, Druid and Data Modeling on Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Dan McClary
June 19, 2017 21:55 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MBMark 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 .