Drill to Detail Ep.83 ‘Abstracting, Extending and Automating Looker Development with Futuremodel’ with Special Guest Davis Clark

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Davis Clark, Founder at Futuremodel, to talk about democratizing Looker LookML development by abstracting the Looker model, removing the need to write LookML code and automating the development process.

• Futuremodel Homepage

• Futuremodel Early Access Beta Program

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 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.

• Meltano homepage and quickstart demo

• Hey, data teams - We're working on a tool just for you

• Revisiting the Meltano strategy: a return to our roots

• Why we are building an open source platform for ELT pipelines

• Singer - Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL

• dbt Models - Everything is a select

• Meltano Slack Community

Drill to Detail Ep.54 'DataRobot & Machine Learning Automation' with Special Guest Greg Michaelson

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Greg Michaelson from DataRobot, talking about the benefits of automating the discovery and automation of analytics and machine learning in financial services and other industries.

• DataRobot: Automated Machine Learning for Predictive Modeling
• DataRobot for Business Analysts
• Automated Machine Learning Drives Intelligent Business (Information Week)
• Marketing Attribution, Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory
• Greg Michaelson LinkedIn Profile

Drill to Detail Ep.49 'Trifacta, Google Cloud Dataprep and Data Wranging for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Will Davis

Mark Rittman is joined by Will Davis from Trifacta to talk about the public beta of Google Cloud Dataprep, Trifacta's data wrangling platform and topics including metadata management, data quality and data management for big data and cloud data sources.

• Google Cloud Dataprep on Google Cloud Platform
• "Google Cloud Dataprep: Spreadsheet-Style Data Wrangling Powered by Google Cloud Dataflow"
• "A New Cloud-Based Data Prep Solution from Google & Trifacta"
• Trifacta website
• "A Breakthrough Approach to Exploring and Preparing Data"
• Trifacta platform architecture
• "Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Data Quality Matters"
• "How to Put an Effective Metadata Strategy in Place"

Drill to Detail Ep.48 'Mondrian OLAP, Apache Calcite and Database Dis-Aggregation' With Special Guest Julian Hyde

Drill to Detail returns after the New Year break with Special Guest Julian Hyde from Hortonworks to talk about bitmap indexes and CASE tools, Mondrian and open-source OLAP analysis, and Apache Calcite's mission to bring sanity, cost-based optimisers and support for OLAP workloads to today's dis-aggregated, distributed new-world database engines.

• Oracle Designer page on Oracle.com
• Bitmap Index page on Wikipedia
• Mondrian project page on Github
• Mondrian OLAP Server page on Wikipedia
• MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) page on Wikipedia
• Julian Hyde blog
• Apache Calcite project homepage
• Apache Calcite Introduction and Overview deck
• Streaming SQL presentation at Apex Big Data World 2017, Mountain View, California