Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen

In 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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Drill to Detail Ep.77 ' Keboola, Scaling Analytics and Winning the Looker Join Hackathon' with Special Guest Pavel Dolezal

We 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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Drill to Detail Ep.76 'Segment, Ecosystems and Customer Data Platforms' with Special Guest Calvin French-Owen

Mark 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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Drill to Detail Ep.75 'Bootstrapping an Early-Stage SaaS Analytics Consultancy' with Special Guest Olivier Dupuis

Mark 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 consulting 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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Drill to Detail Ep.74 'Accelerating Oracle from Express to Analytic Views' with Special Guest Bud Endress

Mark 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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Drill to Detail Ep.72 'Conversion Rate Optimization and Other CRAP' with Special Guest Bhav Patel

In 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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Drill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent Graziano

Mark 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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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

In 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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Drill to Detail Ep.63 'Stitch, Talend and the Evolution of Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Jake Stein

Mark 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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Drill to Detail Ep.61 'Kaggle, DataRobot and How to Be a ... Zillionaire!' With Special Guest Jordan Meyer

Mark 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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