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.53 'ThoughtSpot, Search and AI-Powered BI' With Special Guest Doug Bordonaro

Mark Rittman is joined by ThoughtSpot's Chief Data Evangelist Doug Bordonaro to talk about the value of data, issues around trust and consent raised by the EU's new GDPR regulations, and how ThoughtSpot are applying ideas from search engines combined with artificial intelligence smarts to surface insights and drive real value for business users from their analytics investment

• "Value Becomes the 5th “V” in Big Data Factors"
• ThoughtSpot - Search and AI-Driven Analytics for Humans
• The ThoughtSpot Blog
• Doug Bordonaro on LinkedIn
• “Will GDPR Make Machine Learning Illegal?” - KDNuggets article

Drill to Detail Ep.52 'Lyft, Ride-Share Analytics and ETL Developer Productivity ' With Special Guest Mark Grover

Mark Rittman is joined by returning Special Guest Mark Grover to talk about his move from Cloudera and product engineering to a product manager role at Lyft; analytics use-cases in the ride-sharing industry; and the move from conversations about ETL tools, technology and engines to templates, paradigms and developer productivity.

• Mark Grover LinkedIn Profile and Github Profile
• "Hadoop Application Architectures" 
• "Drill to Detail Ep. 7 'Apache Spark and Hadoop Application Architectures'
• Lyft Engineering Blog
• "Software Engineer to Product Manager" blog by Gwen Shapira
• "Introduction to the Oracle Data Integrator Topology" from the Oracle Data Integrator docs site
• Apache Airflow and Amazon Kinesis homepages 
• "Experimentation in a Ridesharing Marketplace" by Nicholas Chamandy, Head of Data Science at Lyft
• "How Uber Eats Works with Restaurants"
• "Deliveroo has built a bunch of tiny kitchens to feed more hungry Londoners" - Wired.co.uk

Drill to Detail Ep.51 'Druid, Imply and OLAP Analysis on Event-Level Datasets' With Special Guest Fangjin Yang

Mark Rittman is joined by Special Guest Fangjin Yang to talk about the history of Druid, a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store originally developed by the team at Metamarkets to provide fast ad-hoc access to large amounts of event-level marketing data, and his work at Imply to commercialise Druid and build a suite of supporting query and data management tools.

• Druid project homepage
• Druid - A Real-Time Analytical Data Store (pdf)
• Druid - Learning about the Druid Architecture
• Imply.io homepage
• Druid, Imply and Looker 5 bring OLAP Analysis to BigQuery’s Data Warehouse

Drill to Detail Ep.50 'Agile BI, Karl Marx and Our Man from Moscow' With Special Guests Stewart Bryson and Alex Gorbachev

Mark Rittman is joined in this 50th Episode Special by our original guest on the first episode of Drill to Detail, Stewart Bryson, to talk about developing agile BI applications using FiveTran, SnowflakeDB and Looker and his recent work developing a BI solution for Google Play Marketing using Google Data Studio and Google Cloud Platform. We're also joined later in the show by Alex Gorbachev from Pythian, our mystery guest who Stewart then interviews flawlessly armed only with a set of questions given to him as the guest was unveiled ... though be sure to listen past the final closing music for the bonus out-takes.

• #115 Google Play Marketing with Dom Elliott and Stewart Bryson
• The Next-Generation Jump Program
• The Data Sharehouse is Here
• From Data Warehouse to Data Sharehouse
• Alex Gorbachev profile on Pythian.com