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

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

Drill to Detail Ep.50 'Agile BI, Karl Marx and Our Man from Moscow' With Special Guests Stewart Bryson and Alex Gorbachev

Mark 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

Drill to Detail Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy

In 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 he wrote on this topic.

• Fishtown Analytics
• dbt (data build tool) and Fishtown Analytics Github repos
• “The Startup Founder’s Guide to Analytics”
• “What are the steps / tools in setting up a modern, SaaS-based BI infrastructure?”
• “Building a Mature Analytics Workflow: The Analyst Collective Viewpoint”

Drill to Detail Ep.29 'New-World BI Development using BigQuery, Looker, Kakfa and Streamsets' With Special Guest Stewart Bryson

Stewart 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.

Drill to Detail Ep.23 ‘Looker, BigQuery and Analytics on Big Data’ With Special Guest Daniel Mintz

Mark 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.