Drill to Detail Ep.62 'Enterprise analytics, DW Modernization and the rediscovery of Data Governance' With Special Guest Mike Ferguson

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Mike Ferguson, long-term analyst, consultant and Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies to talk about data warehouse modernization, analytics and big data project success within enterprise customers and the re-emergence of interest in data governance and master data management within the industry.

• Intelligent Business Strategies homepage

• Mike Ferguson’s Blog

• Drill to Detail Ep.46 'Market Trends and Findings from the BI Survey 17' With Special Guest Dr. Carsten Bange

Drill to Detail Ep.61 'Kaggle, DataRobot and How to Be a ... Zillionaire!' With Special Guest Jordan Meyer

Mark Rittman is joined by DataRobot’s Jordan Meyer to discuss Kaggle, machine learning, deep neural networks and his team’s strategy to win the $1m ZIllow Prize, beating over 1000 other teams to come up with the most accurate home value prediction.

• Zillow Prize: Zillow's Home Value Prediction (Zestimate) | Kaggle

• And the Zillow Prize Goes to…Team ChaNJestimate!

• Meet the ‘Zillow Prize’ winners who get $1M and bragging rights for beating the Zestimate

• https://github.com/jordanmeyer

• Data Scientist Spotlight: Jordan Meyer

• Deep Learning definition on Wikipedia

• ABC - How To Be A Zillionaire (Wall Street Mix)

Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with our host, Mark Rittman, joined by Lloyd Tabb, Founder CTO and Chairman of Looker to talk about the foundational story of Looker and LookML, query latency and semantic models, analytic engines and code IDEs, analytics developer workflows and the rise of cloud elastically-scalable databases, packaged applications and embedded analytics and why learning (and loving) are the long-term keys to analytics and business success.

• Looker JOIN: The Tour 2019

• “7 Reasons Looker Built a New Language for Data”

• “How do you decide what to model in dbt vs LookML?” - Tristan Handy

• “Looker co-founder finds freedom and inspiration on his bike rides” - BizJournals.com

• Looker Packaged Applications

• “A simple explanation of Symmetric Aggregates or: Why On Earth Does My SQL Look Like That?” - Daniel Mintz

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

Drill to Detail Ep.59 'Looker, dbt and Digital Analytics Today' With Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson

Mark Rittman is joined in this Looker JOIN 2018 Special by long-term friends of the show Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics, and Stewart Bryson from Red Pill Analytics to talk about dbt and enabling data engineering for data analysts; the state of modern data analytics consulting today, and what we’re looking forward to hearing about at next week’s Looker JOIN 2018 conference in San Francisco, CA.

• Looker JOIN 2018, San Francisco

• dbt (data build tool)

• “Future Proof your Analytics Stack”

Drill to Detail Ep.58 'Candy Crush Saga, Analytics and Mobile Gaming' With Special Guest Jonathan Palmer

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jonathan Palmer from King Games to talk about the role of analytics in the development of Candy Crush Saga and other King games, their use of Looker along with Google BigQuery and Exasol to provide analytics capabilities to their game designers and product owners and his approach to doing all of this in a fast-moving, technology-driven internet business.

• Candy Crush Saga article on Wikipedia
• King Games company website
• “How King Games is Crushing Games Data” DataIQ article
• Looker and King Games case study
• Jonathan Palmer on LinkedIn