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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 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).

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Drill to Detail Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein

Special extended 100th Episode of the Drill to Detail Podcast, featuring Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson, Jake Stein and our host, Mark Rittman

Joining Mark Rittman for this 100th Episode Special are Keenan Rice (previously Founding Team, GTM Executive at Looker, now GM at Firebolt), Stewart Bryson (previously CEO at Red Pill Analytics, now Head of Customer Experience at Coalesce) and joining us mid-way through the show as our even more special mystery guest, Jake Stein (previously Co-Founder and COO at RJ Metrics, CEO and Co-Founder at Stitch and now CEO and Co-Founder at Common Paper.

Drill to Detail Past Episodes discussed on the show were:

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Drill to Detail Ep.93 'Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer' with Special Guest Katie Hindson

In this first episode of a new series, Mark Rittman is joined by Katie Hindson to talk about Lightdash, a new open-source alternative to Looker that uses dbt as its metrics layer and semantic model.

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Drill to Detail Ep.81 'Meltano, Singer Taps and Open-Source Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Douwe Maan

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Gitlab.com Lead Developer Douwe Mann to discuss the history of the open-source Meltano project and its recent refocus on becoming the "glue" that creates open-source data pipelines, using plugin technologies such as Singer Taps and dbt transformations.

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by GitLab.com Lead Developer Douwe Maan to discuss the history of the open-source Meltano project and its recent refocus on becoming the "glue" that creates open-source data pipelines, using plugin technologies such as Singer Taps and dbt transformations.

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