Drill to Detail Ep.79 'Scaling the Modern Data Analytics Stack' with Special Guests Drew Banin and Stewart Bryson

Mark 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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Drill to Detail Ep. 73 'Luck, Thinking Different and Designing Looker Data Platform' with Special Guest Colin Zima

The 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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Drill to Detail Ep.70 'Oracle Analytics, Luke Skywalker and the Remarkable Return of Enterprise Analytics' featuring Special Guest Bruno Aziza

Mark 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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Drill to Detail Ep.69 'Looker, Tableau and Consolidation in the BI Industry' featuring Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson

Mark 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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Drill to Detail Ep.67 'Thinking Probabilistically and Scaling-Out the Modern BI Stack' with Special Guest Dylan Baker

Mark 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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Drill to Detail Ep.66 'ETL, Incorta and the Death of the Star Schema' with Special Guest Matthew Halliday

Mark 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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Drill to Detail Ep.65 'Bootstrapping, Growth Hacking and Supermetrics Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers' with Special Guest Mikael Thuneberg

Mark 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 what is now a €10M 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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Drill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani

Mark 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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Drill to Detail Ep.62 'Enterprise analytics, DW Modernization and the rediscovery of Data Governance' With Special Guest Mike Ferguson

Mark 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.

• Intelligent Business Strategies homepage

• Mike Ferguson’s Blog

• Drill to Detail Ep.46 'Market Trends and Findings from the BI Survey 17' With Special Guest Dr. Carsten Bange

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Drill to Detail Ep.58 'Candy Crush Saga, Analytics and Mobile Gaming' With Special Guest Jonathan Palmer

Mark 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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