Drill to Detail Ep.56 'Essbase Cloud, Analytics Cloud and Cloud Analytics Consulting' with Special Guest Matt Yorke

In this specially-extended episode just before ODTUG KScope'18, Mark Rittman is joined by Matt Yorke from Qubix to talk about Oracle Essbase Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and the business of Oracle Cloud analytics consulting

• Essbase Cloud is Here!
• Oracle Analytics Partner Forum 2018
• Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud
• ODTUG KScope’18
• Matt Yorke on LinkedIn

Drill to Detail Ep.55 'Snowplow, Data Pipelines and Event-Level Digital Analytics' with Special Guest Yali Sassoon

Mark Rittman is joined by Yali Sassoon from Snowplow to talk about data pipelines and Hadoop in the cloud; how web analytics evolved from counting pageviews to today's event-level analysis of consumer behavoir across all digital channels; why digital analytics is hard but interesting; and Snowplow's approach to building a successful hybrid open-source/commercial software business that competes successfully with megavendors such as Google and Adobe.

• Snowplow website
• Snowplow Insights commercial hosted service details
• Snowplow Open-Source
• Evolving Your Pipeline - Yali Sassoon - Snowplow Berlin Meetup #3
• Snowplow on Looker
  
   

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