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DRILL TO DETAIL PODCAST

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.121 'How Partnerships Power the Data Analytics Ecosystem' featuring Special Guest Eleanor Thompson

Mark Rittman is joined on this episode by Branchworks CEO Eleanor Thompson to talk about partner programs, partner portals and the role partnerships play in making data analytics initiatives a success.

Drill to Detail Ep.121 'How Partnerships Power the Data Analytics Ecosystem' feat. Eleanor Thompson
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Drill to Detail Ep.120 ‘Embeddable, Cube and Lightning-Fast In-App Analytics’ with Special Guest Tom Gardiner

In this episode of the Drill to Detail Podcast Mark Rittman is joined by special guest Tom Gardiner, CEO @ Embeddable.com to talk about Embeddable's mission to create the leading developer toolkit for building fast, interactive customer-facing analytics directly into your product in partnership with Cube.dev and Rittman Analytics.

Drill to Detail Ep.120 'Embeddable, Cube and Lightning-Fast In-App Analytics' with Tom Gardiner
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Drill to Detail Ep.119 ‘Data Control Planes, SDF Labs and dbt Cloud Visual Editor’ with Special Guest Greg McKeon

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Greg McKeon, Staff Product Manager at dbt Labs to talk about their recent acquisition of SDF Labs, the vision for dbt as the control plane for data collaboration at-scale and the upcoming drag-and-drop Visual Editor that’s soon to be part of dbt Cloud.

Drill to Detail Ep.119 ‘Data Control Planes, SDF Labs and dbt Cloud Visual Editor’ with Greg McKeon
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Drill to Detail Ep.118 ‘A Look Into the Future of Looker and Google Cloud Data Analytics’ featuring Special Guest Sean Zinsmeister

In this episode, Sean Zinsmeister from Google joins Mark Rittman to discuss the latest developments for Looker including the integration of Looker Studio, new modeling capabilities and the exciting potential of generative AI for BI.

We discuss how Looker is evolving to be a more open, composable platform that can power advanced analytics and data storytelling, with Sean sharing insights on Google's purpose-built Gemini models for natural language to SQL translation and how Looker customers can leverage these AI capabilities. 

We also explore Looker's agentic API strategy, the long-term vision of using Looker Studio as the primary Looker front-end and the opening up of LookML to tools beyond just Looker. 

Drill to Detail Ep.118 ‘A Look Into the Future of Looker ’ featuring Special Guest Sean Zinsmeister
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Drill to Detail Ep.117 ‘How DataCoves Operationalises the Modern Data Stack’ featuring Special Guest Noel Gomez

Join Mark Rittman in this special end-of-year episode as he speaks with Noel Gomez, co-founder of DataCoves about the challenges and opportunities of orchestrating dbt and other tools within the open-source Modern Data Stack, navigating the evolving semantic layer landscape and the future of modular, vendor-agnostic data solutions.

Drill to Detail Ep.117 ‘How DataCoves Operationalises the Modern Data Stack’ featuring Noel Gomez
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