Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by returning special guest Jen Underwood to talk about what's new and innovative in the BI and analytics industry right now, and how AI and machine learning are this year's data discovery and data visualization."Between The Lines At Tableau Conference" - Jen Underwood.com blog"Transform The Business With Automated Embedded Artificial Intelligence" - JenUnderwood.com blog"Moving From Bi To Machine Learning With Automation" -  JenUnderwood.com blog "How Smart Data Discovery Will Radically Transform Analytics" - Tellius Webinar with Jen UnderwoodYellowFin BI - homepagePaxata - homepage"Drill To Detail Ep.8 'Self-Service BI, Data Prep & Big Data Vendor Strategy' With Special Guest Jen Underwood"

Mark is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by Wes McKinney, to talk about the origins of the Python Pandas open-source package for data analysis and his subsequent work as a contributor to the Kudu (incubating) and Parquet projects within the Apache Software Foundation and Arrow, an in-memory data structure specification for use by engineers building data systems and the de-facto standard for columnar in-memory processing and interchange.Python Data Analysis Library"Ibis on Impala: Python at Scale for Data Science"Drill To Detail Ep.3 'Apache Kudu And Cloudera's Analytic Platform' With Special Guest Mike PercyApache Arrow homepage"Apache Arrow and the "10 Things I Hate About pandas""Apache Arrow vs. Parquet and ORC: Do we really need a third Apache project for columnar data representation?""Some comments to Daniel Abadi's blog about Apache Arrow"Wes McKinney homepage

Mark is joined by Mike Durran from the Oracle Analytics Product Management team in this UKOUG Tech’17 special to talk about his route into product management via the Oracle Discoverer BI tool, Oracle’s latest product in this space Oracle Data Visualization Desktop 4 and its new features, and Mike’s upcoming sessions at the UK Oracle User Group’s Tech’17 event next week in Birmingham, UK.Oracle Data Visualization Desktop - Get StartedUKOUG Tech'17 Conference Site

Mark is joined in this episode by Avi Zloof from Evaluex to talk about the new world of elastically-provisioned cloud-hosted analytic databases such as Google BigQuery and Amazon Athena, how their pricing model and vendor strategy differs from the traditional database vendors, and how machine learning can be used to automate performance tuning and optimize workloads in this new world of large-scale distributed query and storage. SuperQuery - Free visualization tool for Google BigQuerySuperQuery Chrome PluginDrill to Detail Ep.12 'Gluent and the New World of Hybrid Data' with Special Guest Tanel PoderBQQuery Mate Chrome Plugin

Mark is joined in this episode by Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate Felipe Hoffa, talking about getting started as a developer using Google BigQuery along with Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Dataprep and Google Cloud Platform's machine learning APIs.Reddit BigQuery ForumFelipe Hoffa on Stack OverflowFelipe Hoffa on MediumGoogle Cloud Dataprep"How to aggregate data for BigQuery using Apache Airflow"Google Cloud Platform Github Repo

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 websiteFivetran Source and Target IntegrationsLooker 5 Release with new Analytic and Data Blocks"Comparison of Two Great ETL Tools: Fivetran vs. Stitch Data"

In this episode Mark is joined by ex-colleague and now Technical Advisor to Gluent, Michael Rainey, to talk about hybrid platforms and Gluent's new cloud offload capability, the Hadoop market in-general and his thoughts on data engineering and the recently-released AWS Glue data integration service.Gluent Cloud Sync – Sharing Data to Enable Analytics in the CloudGluent Case StudiesGluent Data Platform OverviewAmazon GlueThe Rise of the Data Engineer and The Downfall of the Data Engineer by Maxime BeaucheminDrill to Detail Ep.26 'Airflow, Superset & The Rise of the Data Engineer' with Special Guest Maxime BeaucheminDrill to Detail Ep.12 'Gluent and the New World of Hybrid Data' with Special Guest Tanel Poder

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

Mark Rittman is joined in this Summer Special episode by none other than Cameron Lackpour, Essbase expert and Oracle ACE Director, to talk about why and how Essbase won the OLAP wars, how Essbase Server works and the role it now plays in Oracle Analytics Cloud and his involvement with user groups over the years. In this specially extended edition he also gives us his reading recommendations for while you're at the pool or, as he will be, out camping, and he also shares his predictions for what we'll hear from Oracle and the analytics industry when he, and Drill to Detail, returns in the autumn after a well-deserved summer break.  

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"