Drill to Detail

Joining Mark Rittman for this 101st Episode Special for the Drill to Detail Podcast is Tristan Handy, CEO and Founder of dbt Labs talking about what went right at RJ Metrics, how the Analyst Collective led to today’s community around the open-source dbt project and his personal journey from being in the lab building Fishtown Analytics to CEO of today’s hottest data analytics startup … and why he secretly wishes he was Mark (according to Mark).

Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein (Drill to Detail Podcast)

My $2.6 Billion Ecosystem Fail: an RJMetrics Post Mortem (Bob Moore)

How Best-in-Class eCommerce Businesses Achieve 230% Growth (2x eCommerce)

Introducing the RA Warehouse dbt Framework : How Rittman Analytics Does Data Centralization using dbt, Google BigQuery, Stitch and Looker (Rittman Analytics Blog)

Goodbye RJMetrics, Hello Fishtown Analytics (Tristan Handy)

Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy (Drill to Detail Podcast)

Analytics is a Trade (Tristan Handy)

Analyst Collective website (via the Internet Archive)

Building a Mature Analytics Workflow: The Analyst Collective Viewpoint (SlideShare)

Fishtown Analytics : Frequently-Asked Questions (via the Internet Archive)

Ep 41: dbt Labs + Transform join forces on metrics w/ Nick Handel + Drew Banin (Analytics Engineering Podcast via Spotify)

Joining Mark Rittman for this 100th Episode Special are Keenan Rice (previously Founding Team, GTM Executive at Looker, now GM at Firebolt), Stewart Bryson (previously CEO at Red Pill Analytics, now Head of Customer Experience at Coalesce) and joining us mid-way through the show as our even more special mystery guest, Jake Stein (previously Co-Founder and COO at RJ Metrics, CEO and Co-Founder at Stitch and now CEO and Co-Founder at Common Paper.

Drill to Detail Past Episodes discussed on the show were:

Drill To Detail Ep.1. 'After The Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016', With Special Guest Stewart Bryson

Drill to Detail Ep.23 ‘Looker, BigQuery and Analytics on Big Data’ With Special Guest Daniel Mintz

Drill to Detail Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy

Drill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent Graziano

Drill to Detail Ep.69 'Looker, Tableau and Consolidation in the BI Industry' featuring Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson

Drill to Detail Ep.89 'Firebolt and the History of Cloud Data Warehousing' with Special Guest Eldad Farkash

Drill to Detail Ep.99 “Is the Modern Data Stack Dead?” with Special Guest Chris Tabb

Other show notes below:

Gartner Makes it Official: The Age of Self-Service Is Upon Us

RJMetrics Acquired by Magento Commerce, Pipeline is now Stitch

The Startup Founders’ Guide to Analytics - Tristan Handy

Analyzing Drill to Detail Podcast Stats using Hex

Google Completes Looker Acquisition

Common Paper

Rittman Analytics : How We Work

Drill to Detail Ep.96 'Omni's Mission to Answer the First 100 Questions' with Special Guest Colin Zima

Coalesce : Start Free

Mark Rittman is joined by Izzy Miller to talk about Hex, a collaborative data platform that brings everyone together to explore, analyze, and share … and why the future of notebooks isn’t just about notebooks.

Hex website

Public app gallery of example Hex projects .

Dataframe SQL announcement

Hex for Analytics Engineers

Tweet thread about why the python / sql debate is boring

"The Sharing Gap"

We’re joined on this episode of Drill to Detail by fellow Brightonian Daniel Perry-Reed from Measurelab, talking with Mark about the new Google Analytics 4 release and its role within the future Marketing Technology stack.

From the wild west of data collection to conversion modelling

The sun is setting on Universal Analytics

MeasureFest April 2022: The role of GA in the future MarTech stack

Event-Based Analytics (and BigQuery Export) comes to Google Analytics 4; How Does It Work… and What’s the Catch?

The Measurepod

Mark Rittman is joined in this very special episode by Colin Zima, ex-Head of Analytics at Looker and now co-founder of Omni, a new analytics startup looking to become the fastest way to ask the first 100 questions.

Introducing Omni: The fastest way to turn SQL into intelligence

Omni Analytics Homepage

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Peter Fishman to talk about Mozart Data, the modern data stack and the need to automate the role of the analytics engineer.

MozartData website

Data Bites: A Virtual Lunch and Learn with Powered by Fivetran, Snowflake and Mozart Data

Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) – One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline

Mark Rittman is joined by Eric Dodds to talk about Rudderstack's founding story and open-source roots, Segment compatibility and event-based pricing vs. MTUs and Rudderstack's "Warehouse-First" approach to building customer data platforms.

Rudderstack's Data Stack : Deep Dive

Introducing RudderStack Cloud: The Warehouse-First CDP for Developers

Rudderstack, Snowplow and Open-Source CDP Alternatives to Segment

How Twilio is Shaping Segment

Event-Based Analytics (and BigQuery Export) comes to Google Analytics 4; How Does It Work… and What’s the Catch?

Why (and How) Customer Data Warehouses are the New Customer Data Platform

Why Take a Warehouse-First Approach to Analytics

In this first episode of a new series, Mark Rittman is joined by Katie Hindson to talk about Lightdash, a new open-source alternative to Looker that uses dbt as its metrics layer and semantic model.

Lightdash.com

What is the dbt Metrics Layer?

Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer

We're joined on this episode of Drill to Detail by Dylan Baker and Josh Temple to talk about developing multi-layer modern data stack projects, Spectacles’ recently released integration with dbt and what's now possible with their new public API

Extending Spectacles with API-Triggered Runs

Synchronizing Looker and dbt™ with Spectacles

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

Adding Looker Regression Tests to the dbtCloud CI/CD Test Pipeline using Spectacles

Drill to Detail Ep.67 'Thinking Probabilistically and Scaling-Out the Modern BI Stack' with Special Guest Dylan Baker