Drill to Detail

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) | Kaggle

And the Zillow Prize Goes to…Team ChaNJestimate!

Meet the ‘Zillow Prize’ winners who get $1M and bragging rights for beating the Zestimate

https://github.com/jordanmeyer

Data Scientist Spotlight: Jordan Meyer

Deep Learning definition on Wikipedia

ABC - 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.com

Looker Packaged Applications

“A simple explanation of Symmetric Aggregates or: Why On Earth Does My SQL Look Like That?” - Daniel Mintz

Drill 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 Francisco

dbt (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

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 consulting

Essbase Cloud is Here!

Oracle Analytics Partner Forum 2018

Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud

ODTUG KScope’18

Matt Yorke on LinkedIn

Mark Rittman is joined by Yali Sassoon from Snowplow to talk about data pipelines and Hadoop in the cloud; how web analytics evolved from counting pageviews to today's event-level analysis of consumer behavoir across all digital channels; why digital analytics is hard but interesting; and Snowplow's approach to building a successful hybrid open-source/commercial software business that competes successfully with megavendors such as Google and Adobe.

Snowplow website

Snowplow Insights commercial hosted service details

Snowplow Open-Source

Evolving Your Pipeline - Yali Sassoon - Snowplow Berlin Meetup #3

Snowplow on Looker

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Greg Michaelson from DataRobot, talking about the benefits of automating the discovery and automation of analytics and machine learning in financial services and other industries.

DataRobot: Automated Machine Learning for Predictive Modeling

DataRobot for Business Analysts

Automated Machine Learning Drives Intelligent Business (Jen Underwood, Information Week article)

Marketing Attribution, Artificial Intelligence, and Game Theory

Greg Michaelson LinkedIn Profile

Mark Rittman is joined by ThoughtSpot's Chief Data Evangelist Doug Bordonaro to talk about the value of data, issues around trust and consent raised by the EU's new GDPR regulations, and how ThoughtSpot are applying ideas from search engines combined with artificial intelligence smarts to surface insights and drive real value for business users from their analytics investment.

Value Becomes the 5th “V” in Big Data Factors

ThoughtSpot - Search and AI-Driven Analytics for Humans

The ThoughtSpot Blog

Doug Bordonaro on LinkedIn

“Will GDPR Make Machine Learning Illegal?”