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Mar 3, 2021 • 44min

Drill to Detail Ep.85 'Data Quality, Data Trust and Preventing Data Downtime' with Special Guest Barr Moses

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with Mark joined by special guest Barr Moses to talk about data-driven customer success, data quality and the story behind her new data reliability startup Monte Carlo.Monte Carlo - Data reliability delivereddbt Data Source Freshness Delivering End-to-End Data Observability with Looker and Monte Carlo Data Observability: How to Build Your Own Anomaly Detectors Using SQLWhy Testing Your Data Is Insufficient
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Dec 8, 2020 • 53min

Drill to Detail Ep.84 '2020 Review & Coalesce Special' with Special Guests Tristan Handy & Stewart Bryson

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for an end-of-year and Coalesce 2020 special episode, with Mark Rittman joined by Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics along with Stewart Bryson from Red Pill Analytics.Coalesce 2020 Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen Snowflake Stock Has More Than Tripled Since Its IPO. CEO Frank Slootman Explains What’s Next. Fishtown Analytics Announces $12.9M Fundraise A License to build the future
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Jul 28, 2020 • 46min

Drill to Detail Ep.83 ‘Abstracting, Extending and Automating Looker Development with Futuremodel’ with Special Guest Davis Clark

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Davis Clark, Founder at Futuremodel, to talk about democratizing Looker development by automating and abstracting the process of LookML development.Futuremodel HomepageFuturemodel Early Access Beta Program
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Jun 4, 2020 • 46min

Drill to Detail Ep.82 'Looker Development, Automated Testing and Spectacles' with Special Guest Josh Temple

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Josh Temple, Analytics Engineer at Spotify to talk about analytics development, automated testing and Spectacles, an open-source tool and SaaS service that automatically tests your LookML to ensure Looker always runs smoothly for your users.Spectacles product homepage and early access programData Tests in LookerAutomated testing in the modern data warehouse#JOIN19 - Using Customized Open-Source Tools With LookMLContinuous Integration and Automated Build Testing with dbtCloud
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May 19, 2020 • 1h 11min

Drill to Detail Ep.81 'Meltano, Singer Taps and Open-Source Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Douwe Maan

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by GitLab.com Lead Developer Douwe Maan to discuss the history of the open-source Meltano project and its recent refocus on becoming the "glue" that creates open-source data pipelines, using plugin technologies such as Singer Taps and dbt transformations.Meltano homepage and quickstart demoHey, data teams - We're working on a tool just for youRevisiting the Meltano strategy: a return to our rootsWhy we are building an open source platform for ELT pipelinesSinger - Simple, Composable, Open Source ETLdbt Models - Everything is a selectMeltano Slack Community
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May 5, 2020 • 54min

Drill to Detail Ep.80 'Data Architecture and Data Teams at Hubspot' with Special Guest James Densmore

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Hubspot's Director of Data Infrastructure James Densmore to talk about distributed and remote-friendly data teams, DevOps with dbt and Apache Airflow and career path options for data engineers.How should I structure my data team? A look inside HubSpot, Away, M.M. LaFleur, and more (dbt Blog)Software Engineers do not Need to Become Managers to Thrive (Data Liftoff Blog)The Misunderstood Data Engineer (Data Liftoff Blog)Modular ELT (Data Liftoff Blog)Test SQL Pipelines against Production Clones using DBT and Snowflake (Dan Gooden)HubSpot Data Actions, Harvest Analytical Workflows and Looker Data Platform (Rittman Analytics Blog)
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Apr 20, 2020 • 56min

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 ViewpointFishtown Analytics and Drew BaninMulti-Channel Marketing Attribution using Segment, Google BigQuery, dbt and LookerGetting Started with dbt.Red Pill Analytics
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Apr 8, 2020 • 40min

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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Jan 24, 2020 • 46min

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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Dec 17, 2019 • 46min

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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