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Mark Rittman is joined each episode by a special guest from the world of business intelligence, analytics and big data.

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Drill to Detail Ep.93 'Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer' with Special Guest Katie Hindson

In this first episode of a new series, Mark Rittman is joined by Katie Hindson to talk about Lightdash, a new open-source alternative to Looker that uses dbt as its metrics layer and semantic model.

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BI & OLAP Tools, Thought Leaders Mark Rittman BI & OLAP Tools, Thought Leaders Mark Rittman

Drill to Detail Ep.88 'Superset, Preset and the Future of Business Intelligence' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin

Maxime Beauchemin returns to the Drill to Detail Podcast and joins Mark Rittman to talk about what's new with Apache Airflow 2.0, the origin story for Apache Superset and now Preset.io, why the future of business intelligence is open source and news on Marquez, a reference implementation of the OpenLineage open source metadata service for the collection, aggregation, and visualization of a data ecosystem’s metadata sponsored by WeWork.

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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.

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Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen

In this special episode of Drill to Detail Mark Rittman is joined by Seth Rosen, Co-Founder and Principal at Hashpath to talk about the impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic shutdown on the business of analytics and product startups, the work being done in the community to help find a cure and the role that data and analytics can have in accelerating the post-shutdown recovery.

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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.

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