Drill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani

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 Tigani

• Introduction to BigQuery BI Engine

• BigQuery Storage API Overview

• Supermetrics and Fivetran BigQuery connectors

• Drill to Detail Ep.2. 'Future of SQL on Hadoop', With Special Guest Dan McClary

• Drill to Detail Ep.31 'Dremel, Druid and Data Modeling on Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Dan McClary

Drill to Detail Ep.63 'Stitch, Talend and the Evolution of Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Jake Stein

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 

Drill to Detail Ep.62 'Enterprise analytics, DW Modernization and the rediscovery of Data Governance' With Special Guest Mike Ferguson

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 homepage

• Mike Ferguson’s Blog

• Drill to Detail Ep.46 'Market Trends and Findings from the BI Survey 17' With Special Guest Dr. Carsten Bange

Drill to Detail Ep.61 'Kaggle, DataRobot and How to Be a ... Zillionaire!' With Special Guest Jordan Meyer

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)

Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb

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