Drill to Detail Ep.114 ‘Building a Solopreneur Data Analytics Consultancy’ with Special Guest Christian Steinert

Mark is joined in this episode by Christian Steinert to talk about his solo journey building Steinert Analytics, a data analytics consultancy transforming data into actionable revenue and cost-saving insights for Central Ohio's SaaS startups.

• Steinert Analytics homepage

• Christian Steinert LinkedIn Profile

• “Helping a Roofing Company Define Their Sales Process”

• “Transforming a Top 5 Fast Food Company's Operational Drive-Thru Reporting”

Drill to Detail Ep. 113 ‘Data Teams, Portable and Data Integration’s Long Tail’ featuring Special Guest Ethan Aaron

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Ethan Aaron, Founder & CEO of Portable, to talk about what you should do if you’re the first data hire at a company, when and when not to hire a consultant, the founding story of Portable.io and the long tail (and economic model) of the data integration connectors market.

• Ethan Aaron LinkedIn Profile

• Portable.io Homepage

• “The biggest misconceptions about data integrations..” (LinkedIn)

• “You join a 100 person company as the head of data. What should you do?” (LinkedIn)

• “The stuff no one will tell you about running a data team” (LinkedIn)

Drill to Detail Ep.112 ‘From Delphi to Cube’s New Semantic Model AI Features’ with Special Guest David Jayatillake

Mark Rittman is joined by returning guest David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube.dev, to talk about Delphi Labs’ journey from a standalone data analytics chatbot to now becoming the basis of Cube’s new AI features within its composable semantic model product.

• Drill to Detail Ep.102 'LLMs, Semantic Models and Bringing AI to the Modern Data Stack' with Special Guest David Jayatillake

• Drill to Detail Ep.107 'Cube, Headless BI and the AI Semantic Layer' with Special Guest Artyom Keydunov

• Introducing the AI API and Chart Prototyping in Cube Cloud

• A Practical Guide to Getting Started with Cube's AI API

• Cube Rollup London : Bringing Cube Users Together

Drill to Detail Ep.111 'Making Analytics Fun, Frictionless and Ducking Awesome' with Special Guest Jordan Tigani

Mark Rittman is joined in this final episode of the current series of Drill to Detail by returning guest Jordan Tigani, Co-Founder & CEO at Motherduck to talk about the journey from big data to small data and bringing hybrid cloud execution to DuckDB.

• Big Data is Dead

• Teach Your Duckdb To Fly

• Announcing Motherduck: Hybrid Execution Scales Duckdb From Your Laptop Into The Cloud

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

Drill to Detail Ep.110 'Building a Sequel to SQL with Malloy' featuring Special Guests Lloyd Tabb and Carlin Eng

Mark Rittman is joined in this special episode by previous Looker founder and inventor of the LookML language Lloyd Tabb together with Carlin Eng, Product Manager at Google Cloud to talk about Malloy, a new query language to replace SQL for analytics.

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

• Malloy : An experimental language for data

• A Sequel to SQL? An introduction to Malloy

• Why SQL syntax sucks, and why it matters

• Composing with Queries

• Dimensional Flexibility, one of the things that makes Malloy Special

• Data is Rectangular and other Limiting Misconceptions

• Malloy's Near Term Roadmap