Drill to Detail Ep.54 'DataRobot & Machine Learning Automation' with Special Guest Greg Michaelson

Mark 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 (Information Week)
• Marketing Attribution, Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory
• Greg Michaelson LinkedIn Profile

Drill to Detail Ep.49 'Trifacta, Google Cloud Dataprep and Data Wranging for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Will Davis

Mark 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"

Drill to Detail Ep.48 'Mondrian OLAP, Apache Calcite and Database Dis-Aggregation' With Special Guest Julian Hyde

Drill to Detail returns after the New Year break with Special Guest Julian Hyde from Hortonworks to talk about bitmap indexes and CASE tools, Mondrian and open-source OLAP analysis, and Apache Calcite's mission to bring sanity, cost-based optimisers and support for OLAP workloads to today's dis-aggregated, distributed new-world database engines.

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

Mark 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?

• The BI Survey 17: The World’s Largest Annual Survey of BI Users
• Master Data and Data Quality Management Now the #1 Trend in BI
• BI Trend Monitor 2018 Infographic: The Evolution of Trends
• The Business Intelligence Industry Continues Its Ongoing Empowerment of Business Users
• The OLAP Report: The origins of today’s OLAP products (c. 2005, from the Internet Archive)

Drill to Detail Ep.40 'Fivetran's Middleware for SaaS Data' With Special Guest Taylor Brown

Mark 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.

• Fivetran website
• Fivetran Source and Target Integrations
• Looker 5 Release with new Analytic and Data Blocks
• "Comparison of Two Great ETL Tools: Fivetran vs. Stitch Data"

Drill to Detail Ep.38 'Oracle's Big Data Strategy Before OOW' with Special Guest Jean-Pierre Dijcks

Drill 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.36 'Marketing Analytics, AI and the Rise of the Omni-channel Consumer' With Special Guest Mark Madsen

Mark 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.

• Third Nature, Inc.
• "A Pragmatic Approach to Analyzing Customers"
• "Salesforce Einstein Keynote: AI For Everyone"
• "What is SAP Leonardo? Everything you need to know about SAP’s Leonardo platform"

Drill to Detail Ep.35 'Stitch Data, Singer and ETL for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Jake Stein

In 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.

• Stitch Data
• Singer: Simple, Composable Open-Source ETL
• Setting the Data Strategy for Your Growing Organization
• The State of Data Engineering
• The State of Data Science
• Why our ETL Tool Doesn't Do Transformations
• Airflow: a workflow management platform
• Goodbye RJMetrics, Hello Fishtown Analytics
• Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department

Drill to Detail Ep.34 'Qlik, MSAS and the Strategy of Data Analytics' with Special Guest Donald Farmer

Mark 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.