Drill to Detail Ep.85 'Data Quality, Data Trust and Preventing Data Downtime' with Special Guest Barr Moses

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with Mark joined by special guest Barr Moses to talk about data-driven customer success, data quality and the story behind her new data reliability startup Monte Carlo.

• Monte Carlo - Data reliability delivered

• dbt Data Source Freshness

• Delivering End-to-End Data Observability with Looker and Monte Carlo

• Data Observability: How to Build Your Own Anomaly Detectors Using SQL

• Why Testing Your Data Is Insufficient

Drill to Detail Ep.82 'Looker Development, Automated Testing and Spectacles' with Special Guest Josh Temple

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Josh Temple, Analytics Engineer at Spotify to talk about analytics development, automated testing and Spectacles, an open-source tool and SaaS service that automatically tests your LookML to ensure Looker always runs smoothly for your users.

• Spectacles product homepage and early access program

• Data Tests in Looker

• Automated testing in the modern data warehouse

• #JOIN19 - Using Customized Open-Source Tools With LookML

• Continuous Integration and Automated Build Testing with dbtCloud

Drill to Detail Ep.79 'Scaling the Modern Data Analytics Stack' with Special Guests Drew Banin and Stewart Bryson

Mark Rittman is joined by special guests Drew Banin, co-founder of Fishtown Analytics and maintainer of dbt (data build tool) and Stewart Bryson, long-time friend of the show and CEO/Co-founder of Red Pill Analytics to talk about scaling modern data stack projects from startups to the enterprise; how do you deal with data quality issues when there’s no central record of customers, how do we introduce data governance, enterprise requirements and meet the needs of enterprise architects and how do we scale concepts such as agile and analytics as engineering beyond our initial champion and data team?

• The dbt Viewpoint

• Fishtown Analytics and Drew Banin

• Multi-Channel Marketing Attribution using Segment, Google BigQuery, dbt and Looker

• Getting Started with dbt.

• Red Pill Analytics

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

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by Dr. Carsten Bange from BARC to talk about findings from the recently completed BI Survey 17 including the continuing move to modern BI platforms and self-service desktop tools, analytics adoption trends and the increasing incorporation of BI functionality within business applications, the surprising topicality of master data management and data governance ... and whatever happened to Nigel Pendse and his legendary OLAP Report?

• The BI Survey 17: The World’s Largest Annual Survey of BI Users
• Master Data and Data Quality Management Now the #1 Trend in BI
• BI Trend Monitor 2018 Infographic: The Evolution of Trends
• The Business Intelligence Industry Continues Its Ongoing Empowerment of Business Users
• The OLAP Report: The origins of today’s OLAP products (c. 2005, from the Internet Archive)