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.72 'Conversion Rate Optimization and Other CRAP' with Special Guest Bhav Patel

In this final Drill to Detail Episode before we take a break for the summer, Mark Rittman is joined by Bhav Patel, founder of the London Conversion Rate, Optimization and Product Analytics Meetup to talk about Conversion Rate Optimization, Experimentation and A/B Testing, Customer vs. Product Analytics, Attribution and Personalization ... and the story behind the CRAP Meetups.

• CRAP Talks: CRO, Analytics and Product London

• CRAP Talks on Slack

• Analytics, BigQuery, Looker and How I Became an Internet Meme for 48 Hours (CRAP Talks presentation)

• McDonald’s is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a more customized drive-thru (TechCrunch)

Drill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent Graziano

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by returning guest Kent Graziano, Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake, to talk about Snowflake Data Warehouse's cloud-first architecture and recent product announcements at Snowflake Summit 2019.

• Try Snowflake Data Warehouse for free

• Watch Summit 2019 Keynotes

• Snowflake Materialized Views: A Fast, Zero-Maintenance, Accurate Solution

• Modern Data Sharing: The Opportunities Are Endless

• Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano

Drill to Detail Ep.70 'Oracle Analytics, Luke Skywalker and the Remarkable Return of Enterprise Analytics' featuring Special Guest Bruno Aziza

Mark Rittman is joined by Bruno Aziza, Group Vice President, AI, Data Analytics & Cloud at Oracle to talk about the recently-updated product roadmap for Oracle Analytics, Oracle BI in the marketplace, recent acquisitions in the analytics marketplace and the recent Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch, California.

• Oracle Analytics Summit

• Oracle Analytics Summit Recap

• Oracle Analytics for Applications: Oracle Analytics Summit Product Tour

• Oracle Analytics: Honing 18+ products down to a single brand

Drill to Detail Ep.65 'Bootstrapping, Growth Hacking and Supermetrics Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers' with Special Guest Mikael Thuneberg

Mark Rittman is joined by CEO and Founder of Supermetrics, Mikael Thuneberg, to tell the story of how a  mention in the official Google Analytics Blog and a prize of a t-shirt led to him founding and bootstrapping what is now a €10M ARR marketing analytics business that’s probably the most important software vendor the Drill to Detail audience has never heard of, and who recently moved into the data pipelines-as-a-service market in collaboration with Google Cloud Platform and the Google BigQuery team.

• Announcing Supermetrics for BigQuery: Get a marketing data warehouse up and running in minutes (Supermetrics blog)

• Supermetrics, Google BigQuery and Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers (Rittman Analytics blog)