Drill to Detail Ep.77 ' Keboola, Scaling Analytics and Winning the Looker Join Hackathon' with Special Guest Pavel Dolezal

We return with a new episode featuring Keboola CEO Pavel Dolezal on scaling analytics adoption beyond technical developers, the original story behind Keboola and how their team and friends won the recent Looker Join 2019 Hackathon event in San Francisco.

• Keboola homepage

• “DataOps is NOT Just DevOps for Data” - Data Kitchen Blog -

• Looker Brings the Data Community Together at JOIN 2019

Drill to Detail Ep.76 'Segment, Ecosystems and Customer Data Platforms' with Special Guest Calvin French-Owen

Mark Rittman is joined in the final Drill to Detail Podcast episode of the year by Calvin French-Owen, co-founder and CTO at Segment to talk about Segment's founding story, partner ecosystems and their new customer data platform service, Segment Personas.

• analytics.js: The hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any web application (Github.com)

• The Million Dollar Engineering Problem (Segment Blog)

• Tracking Customer Email Marketing Interactions using Segment Personas and Connections (Rittman Analytics Blog)

• Segment Personas product homepage

Drill to Detail Ep.75 'Bootstrapping an Early-Stage SaaS Analytics Consultancy' with Special Guest Olivier Dupuis

Mark Rittman is joined in this specially-extended episode of Drill to Detail by Olivier Dupuis, founder of Lantrn Analytics to share his experiences growing a product analytics consulting business using today’s modern, modular SaaS analytics tools

• Lantrns Analytics

• Rittman Analytics

• "How it Works" - Lantrns Analytics

• "How Rittman Analytics does Analytics: Modern BI Stack Operational Analytics using Looker, Stitch, dbt and Google BigQuery" - Rittman Analytics Blog

Drill to Detail Ep.74 'Accelerating Oracle from Express to Analytic Views' with Special Guest Bud Endress

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Bud Endress, Director, Product Management at Oracle to talk about the evolution of Oracle's query acceleration and in-database OLAP features from the acquisition Express Server back in the 90's to today's Autonomous Data Warehouse and Analytic Views.

• Analytic Views, Oracle Database 12.2 … and Oracle’s Reboot of OLAP now Everything’s In-Memory (and SQL)

• Oracle9i OLAP uncovered

• Overview of Analytic Views

Drill to Detail Ep. 73 'Luck, Thinking Different and Designing Looker Data Platform' with Special Guest Colin Zima

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new season with Mark Rittman joined in this episode by Colin Zima, VP of Product and Chief Analytics Officer at Looker to talk about luck, thinking differently and the deliberate design choices behind Looker Data Platform.

• JOIN 2018 - Colin Zima Product Keynote - Part 1

• GrowthHackers.com AMA with Colin Zima, Chief Analytics Officer & VP of Product at Looker

• HotelTonight - Story of a Modern Data-Driven Business

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