Drill to Detail
Mark Rittman is joined each episode by a special guest from the world of business intelligence, analytics and big data.
Latest episodes
Nov 29, 2016 • 0sec
Drill to Detail Ep.11 'OLAP, Consulting & BI Past Present + Future' with Special Guest Graham Spicer
Mark Rittman is joined by Graham Spicer to talk about BI past, present and future including the history of Oracle OLAP, running and owning a consulting business over 30 years of changes in the industry, what's hot on the market today, and what skills and techniques are still relevant as we adopt big data products and new methods of analysis
Nov 22, 2016 • 0sec
Drill to Detail Ep.10 'Oracle's Big Data Reboot, and Data Storytelling' With Special Guest Stewart Bryson
Mark Rittman is joined once more by Stewart Bryson, talking about Oracle's recent reboot of it's cloud big data platform at Oracle Openworld 2016, thoughts on DataFlowML and comparisons with Google's Cloud DataFlow and Amazon Kinesis, and data storytelling with Oracle Data Visualisation Desktop 2.0
Nov 15, 2016 • 0sec
Drill to Detail Ep.9 'Streamsets, Data-in-Motion and Data Drift' with Special Guest Pat Patterson
Mark Rittman is joined by StreamSets' Pat Patterson, talking about data in motion and doing it at scale, the story behind StreamSets and the problem of data drift, and the challenges involved in managing dataflows at scale as a continuous operation
Nov 8, 2016 • 60min
Drill to Detail Ep.8 'Self-Service BI, Data Prep & Big Data Vendor Strategy' with Special Guest Jen Underwood
Mark Rittman is joined by Jen Underwood to discuss the aftermath of the Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016 and the rise of self-service, Mode-2 analytics; innovation in predictive analytics and data preparation tools, and how the big data cloud vendors are differentiating themselves (or not)
Nov 1, 2016 • 41min
Drill to Detail Ep.7 'Apache Spark, and Hadoop Application Architectures' with Special Guest Mark Grover
Mark is joined by Cloudera's Mark Grover to talk about his work with Apache Spark and Apache Spot, and the book "Hadoop Application Architectures" co-authored with Gwen Shapira, Jonathan Seidman and Ted Malaska
Oct 25, 2016 • 41min
Drill to Detail Ep.6 'Data Capital and the Economics of Big Data' with Special Guest Paul Sonderegger
Mark Rittman is joined by special guest Paul Sonderegger, Oracle's Big Data Strategist, to talk about Data Capital and the economic impact of big data
Oct 18, 2016 • 0sec
Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano
In this episode Mark Rittman is joined by Kent Graziano to answer the questions "Is data modeling now dead", and "is SnowflakeDB the future of analytic data engines in the cloud?"Better Data Modeling: An Introduction to Agile Data Engineering Using Data Vault 2.0Better Data Modeling: Tips for Enhancing Your Use of Oracle SQL Developer Data ModelerKent Graziano BlogBuilding a Scalable Data Warehouse with Data Vault 2.0Snowflake ComputingGartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2016Gartner press release on their "modern BI platform"
Oct 11, 2016 • 58min
Drill to Detail Ep.4 'Reference Architectures Revisited' with Special Guest Andrew Bond
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Oracle's Andrew Bond, to talk about their Big Data Reference Architecture two years on"
Oct 4, 2016 • 49min
Drill to Detail Ep.3 'Apache Kudu and Cloudera's Analytic Platform' with Special Guest Mike Percy
Mark Rittman is joined by Cloudera's Mike Percy, to talk about Apache Kudu, Analytics on Hadoop, and Cloudera's work in this area
Sep 27, 2016 • 1h 3min
Drill to Detail Ep.2. 'Future of SQL on Hadoop', With Special Guest Dan McClary
Mark Rittman is joined by Dan McClary, ex-Oracle Big Data SQL PM and now
working on Google's Storage Division on big data projects, to talk about
the future of SQL-on-Hadoop.
