Mark Rittman is joined by CEO and Founder of Supermetrics, Mikael Thuneberg, to tell the story of how a mention in the official Google Analytics Blog and a prize of a t-shirt led to him founding and bootstrapping a €2M ARR marketing analytics business that’s probably the most important software vendor the Drill to Detail audience has never heard of, and who recently moved into the data pipelines-as-a-service market in collaboration with Google Cloud Platform and the Google BigQuery team.Announcing Supermetrics for BigQuery: Get a marketing data warehouse up and running in minutes (Supermetrics blog)Supermetrics, Google BigQuery and Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers (Rittman Analytics blog)

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jordan Tigani, Director of Product Management at Google for Google BigQuery, to talk about the history of BigQuery and its technology origins in Dremel; how BigQuery has evolved since its original release to handle a wide range of data warehouse workloads; and new features announced for BigQuery at Google Next’19 including BI Engine, Storage API, Connected Sheets and a range of new data connectors from Supermetrics and Fivetran.Modern Data Warehousing with BigQuery (Cloud Next '19)Modern data warehousing with BigQuery: a Q&A with Engineering Director Jordan TiganiIntroduction to BigQuery BI EngineBigQuery Storage API OverviewSupermetrics and Fivetran BigQuery connectorsDrill to Detail Ep.2. 'Future of SQL on Hadoop', With Special Guest Dan McClaryDrill to Detail Ep.31 'Dremel, Druid and Data Modeling on Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Dan McClary

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

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Mike Ferguson, long-term analyst, consultant and Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies to talk about data warehouse modernization, analytics and big data project success within enterprise customers and the re-emergence of interest in data governance and master data management within the industry.Intelligent Business Strategies homepageMike Ferguson’s BlogDrill to Detail Ep.46 'Market Trends and Findings from the BI Survey 17' With Special Guest Dr. Carsten Bange

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) | KaggleAnd the Zillow Prize Goes to…Team ChaNJestimate!Meet the ‘Zillow Prize’ winners who get $1M and bragging rights for beating the Zestimatehttps://github.com/jordanmeyerData Scientist Spotlight: Jordan MeyerDeep Learning definition on WikipediaABC - How To Be A Zillionaire (Wall Street Mix)

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with our host, Mark Rittman, joined by Lloyd Tabb, Founder CTO and Chairman of Looker to talk about the foundational story of Looker and LookML, query latency and semantic models, analytic engines and code IDEs, analytics developer workflows and the rise of cloud elastically-scalable databases, packaged applications and embedded analytics and why learning (and loving) are the long-term keys to analytics and business success.Looker JOIN: The Tour 2019“7 Reasons Looker Built a New Language for Data”“How do you decide what to model in dbt vs LookML?” - Tristan Handy“Looker co-founder finds freedom and inspiration on his bike rides” - BizJournals.comLooker Packaged Applications“A simple explanation of Symmetric Aggregates or: Why On Earth Does My SQL Look Like That?” - Daniel MintzDrill to Detail Ep.48 'Mondrian OLAP, Apache Calcite and Database Dis-Aggregation' With Special Guest Julian Hyde

Mark Rittman is joined in this Looker JOIN 2018 Special by long-term friends of the show Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics, and Stewart Bryson from Red Pill Analytics to talk about dbt and enabling data engineering for data analysts; the state of modern data analytics consulting today, and what we’re looking forward to hearing about at next week’s Looker JOIN 2018 conference in San Francisco, CA.Looker JOIN 2018, San Franciscodbt (data build tool)“Future Proof your Analytics Stack”

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jonathan Palmer from King Games to talk about the role of analytics in the development of Candy Crush Saga and other King games, their use of Looker along with Google BigQuery and Exasol to provide analytics capabilities to their game designers and product owners and his approach to doing all of this in a fast-moving, technology-driven internet business.- Candy Crush Saga article on Wikipedia- King Games company website- “How King Games is Crushing Games Data” DataIQ article- Looker and King Games case study- Jonathan Palmer on LinkedIn

Mark Rittman is joined by Neil Barton, Chief Technology Officer at WhereScape to talk about metadata-driven data warehouse design, automating the build and management of data warehouse infrastructure and the thinking behind his company's WhereScape Red and Wherescape 3D tools.WhereScape Red product pageWhereScape 3D product pageWhereScape Data Vault Express press releaseWorldwide Data Vault ConsortiumNeil Barton LinkedIn Profile

In this specially-extended episode just before ODTUG KScope'18, Mark Rittman is joined by Matt Yorke from Qubix to talk about Oracle Essbase Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and the business of Oracle Cloud analytics consultingEssbase Cloud is Here!Oracle Analytics Partner Forum 2018Oracle Autonomous Analytics CloudODTUG KScope’18Matt Yorke on LinkedIn