Drill to Detail

By Rittman Analytics

Mark Rittman is joined each episode by a special guest from the world of business intelligence, analytics and big data.

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Drill to Detail episodes:

April 09, 2018 Drill to Detail Ep.52 'Lyft, Ride-Share Analytics and ETL Developer Productivity ' With Special Guest Mark Grover
Mark Grover LinkedIn Profile and Github Profile
"Hadoop Application Architectures"
"Drill to Detail Ep. 7 'Apache Spark and Hadoop Application Architectures'
Lyft Engineering Blog
"Software Engineer to Product Manager" blog by Gwen Shapira
"Introduction to the Oracle Data Integrator Topology" from the Oracle Data Integrator docs site
Apache Airflow and Amazon Kinesis homepages
"Experimentation in a Ridesharing Marketplace" by Nicholas Chamandy, Head of Data Science at Lyft
"How Uber Eats Works with Restaurants"
"Deliveroo has built a bunch of tiny kitchens to feed more hungry Londoners" - Wired.co.uk
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49min
March 13, 2018 Drill to Detail Ep.51 'Druid, Imply and OLAP Analysis on Event-Level Datasets' With Special Guest Fangjin Yang
Mark Rittman is joined by Special Guest Fangjin Yang to talk about the history of Druid, a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store originally developed by the team at Metamarkets to provide fast ad-hoc access to large amounts of event-level marketing data, and his work at Imply to commercialise Druid and build a suite of supporting query and data management tools.
Druid project homepage
Druid - A Real-Time Analytical Data Store (pdf)
Druid - Learning about the Druid Architecture
Imply.io homepage
Druid, Imply and Looker 5 bring OLAP Analysis to BigQuery’s Data Warehouse
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37min
February 27, 2018 Drill to Detail Ep.50 'Agile BI, Karl Marx and Our Man from Moscow' With Special Guests Stewart Bryson and Alex Gorbachev
Mark Rittman is joined in this 50th Episode Special by our original guest on the first episode of Drill to Detail, Stewart Bryson, to talk about developing agile BI applications using FiveTran, SnowflakeDB and Looker and his recent work developing a BI solution for Google Play Marketing using Google Data Studio and Google Cloud Platform. We're also joined later in the show by Alex Gorbachev from Pythian, our mystery guest who Stewart then interviews flawlessly armed only with a set of questions given to him as the guest was unveiled ... though be sure to listen past the final closing music for the bonus out-takes.
#115 Google Play Marketing with Dom Elliott and Stewart Bryson
The Next-Generation Jump Program
The Data Sharehouse is Here
From Data Warehouse to Data Sharehouse
Alex Gorbachev profile on Pythian.com
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1h 11min
February 05, 2018 Drill to Detail Ep.49 'Trifacta, Google Cloud Dataprep and Data Wranging for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Will Davis
Mark Rittman is joined by Will Davis from Trifacta to talk about the public beta of Google Cloud Dataprep, Trifacta's data wrangling platform and topics including metadata management, data quality and data management for big data and cloud data sources.
Google Cloud Dataprep on Google Cloud Platform
"Google Cloud Dataprep: Spreadsheet-Style Data Wrangling Powered by Google Cloud Dataflow"
"A New Cloud-Based Data Prep Solution from Google & Trifacta"
Trifacta website
"A Breakthrough Approach to Exploring and Preparing Data"
Trifacta platform architecture
"Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Data Quality Matters"
"How to Put an Effective Metadata Strategy in Place"
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46min
January 23, 2018 Drill to Detail Ep.48 'Mondrian OLAP, Apache Calcite and Database Dis-Aggregation' With Special Guest Julian Hyde
- Oracle Designer page on Oracle.com
- Bitmap Index page on Wikipedia
- Mondrian project page on Github
- Mondrian OLAP Server page on Wikipedia
- MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) page on Wikipedia
- Julian Hyde blog
- Apache Calcite project homepage
- Apache Calcite Introduction and Overview deck
- Streaming SQL presentation at Apex Big Data World 2017, Mountain View, California
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1h 3min
December 26, 2017 Drill to Detail Ep.47 'Business Analytics 2018 Predictive and Best-Practice Christmas & New Year Special' With Special Guest Christian Berg
Mark is joined by long-term industry veteran and friend Christian Berg to talk about surviving fifteen years as a contractor in analytics industry, changes he's seen in the market and in how project are approached, the value in getting involved in the community, and in a specially extended Christmas and New Year edition we look back at what was topical in 2017 and what are Christian's predictions for 2018 ... and appoint Christian as Head of our Best Practices Found on the Internet.
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1h 46min
December 19, 2017 Drill to Detail Ep.46 'Market Trends and Findings from the BI Survey 17' With Special Guest Dr. Carsten Bange
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by Dr. Carsten Bange from BARC to talk about findings from the recently completed BI Survey 17 including the continuing move to modern BI platforms and self-service desktop tools, analytics adoption trends and the increasing incorporation of BI functionality within business applications, the surprising topicality of master data management and data governance ... and whatever happened to Nigel Pendse and his legendary OLAP Report?
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56min
December 13, 2017 Drill to Detail Ep.45 'Tellius, YellowFin and the State of AI in Analytics Today' With Special Guest Jen Underwood
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.
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58min
December 08, 2017 Drill to Detail Ep.44 'Pandas, Apache Arrow and In-Memory Analytics' With Special Guest Wes McKinney
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.
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47min
November 30, 2017 Drill to Detail Ep.43 'Oracle Analytics, Data Visualization Desktop 4.0 and The Art of Product Management' with Special Guest Mike Durran
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.
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53min

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