Drill to Detail Ep.101 ‘The Story Behind the Story of RJ Metrics, Fishtown Analytics and dbt Labs’ with Special Guest Tristan Handy

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)

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

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Josh Temple, Analytics Engineer at Spotify to talk about analytics development, automated testing and Spectacles, an open-source tool and SaaS service that automatically tests your LookML to ensure Looker always runs smoothly for your users.

• Spectacles product homepage and early access program

• Data Tests in Looker

• Automated testing in the modern data warehouse

• #JOIN19 - Using Customized Open-Source Tools With LookML

• Continuous Integration and Automated Build Testing with dbtCloud

Drill to Detail Ep.80 'Data Architecture and Data Teams at Hubspot' with Special Guest James Densmore

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Hubspot's Director of Data Infrastructure James Densmore to talk about distributed and remote-friendly data teams, DevOps with dbt and Apache Airflow and career path options for data engineers.

• How should I structure my data team? A look inside HubSpot, Away, M.M. LaFleur, and more (dbt Blog)

• Software Engineers do not Need to Become Managers to Thrive (Data Liftoff Blog)

• The Misunderstood Data Engineer (Data Liftoff Blog)

• Modular ELT (Data Liftoff Blog)

• Test SQL Pipelines against Production Clones using DBT and Snowflake (Dan Gooden)

• HubSpot Data Actions, Harvest Analytical Workflows and Looker Data Platform (Rittman Analytics Blog)

Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen

In this special episode of Drill to Detail Mark Rittman is joined by Seth Rosen, Co-Founder and Principal at Hashpath to talk about the impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic shutdown on the business of analytics and product startups, the work being done in the community to help find a cure and the role that data and analytics can have in accelerating the post-shutdown recovery.

• “A COVID-19 Dashboard for Massachusetts using Looker and BigQuery” - Hashpath.com blog

• “The Virus Survival Strategy for your Startup"

• “COVID-19: Implications for business” - McKinsey

• “As COVID-19 data sets become more accessible, novel coronavirus pandemic may be most visualized ever” - ZDNet.com

• “Leave COVID-19 analysis to the experts” - Japan Times

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

In this episode Mark is joined by Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics to talk about building-out analytics functions in high-growth startups, and three related blog posts he wrote on this topic.

• Fishtown Analytics
• dbt (data build tool) and Fishtown Analytics Github repos
• “The Startup Founder’s Guide to Analytics”
• “What are the steps / tools in setting up a modern, SaaS-based BI infrastructure?”
• “Building a Mature Analytics Workflow: The Analyst Collective Viewpoint”