INSIGHTS
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.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.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.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.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.116 ‘Spotify, Semantic Layers and Steep’s Metrics-First Approach to BI Tools’ with Special Guest Johan Baltzar
Mark is joined in this episode by Johan Baltzar, previously Product Analytics Manager at Spotify and now co-founder and CEO at Steep to talk about the role analytics played in Spotify’s growth story, the startup scene in Stockholm, Sweden and Steep’s metrics-first approach to user-centric business analytics.
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