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50:57

2024-08-21

Moving Forward from Ad Hoc Reports with DuckDB and MotherDuck

Learn about ad hoc reporting with DuckDB from experts Mehdi Ouazza and Jacob Matson, creator of the MDS-in-a-Box.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

Quack & Code

27:49

2024-08-19

How to bootstrap a Data Warehouse with DuckDB

Guen Prawiroatmodjo, Software Engineer at MotherDuck, shares a talk at SciPy 2024 on how to bootstrap a data warehouse on your laptop using open source, including ETL, data pipelines, dashboard visualization, and sharing via the cloud.

YouTube

Talk

1:02:10

2024-07-24

Leveraging DuckDB and Delta Lake Together

Quack & Code on table formats and Delta Lake with Holly Smith from Databricks. Can you use DuckDB and MotherDuck to query your data lakehouse based on Delta Lake? Yes! And Delta Lake provides a better format than Parquet.

YouTube

Sources

Quack & Code

1:08:11

2024-06-28

Bringing DuckDB to the Cloud: Dual Execution Explained

Stephanie, founding engineer at MotherDuck, talks about what it takes to put a database in the cloud, specifically DuckDB as MotherDuck. Mehdi and Steph explain dual execution, showing how it works and use cases for the technology.

YouTube

Quack & Code

MotherDuck Features

0:21:46

2024-06-27

DuckDB & dataviz | End-To-End Data Engineering Project (3/3)

In this part 3 of the project, @mehdio explores how to build a Dashboard with Evidence using MotherDuck/DuckDb as a data source.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

Tutorial

0:00:55

2024-06-21

One data tool with all its dependencies: DuckDB and extensions

Learn about DuckDB extensions, including the ability to query data in your AWS S3-powered data lake.

YouTube

Short

0:41:41

2024-06-19

Getting Started with MotherDuck Webinar

MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd and Produck Expert Nathaniel Thompson provide an overview on MotherDuck, featuring DuckDB analyst ergonomics, Column Explorer, Fixit, Tableau visualization, Python data analysis, Wasm and more.

Webinar

MotherDuck Features

1:03:13

2024-06-13

Fixing SQL Spaghetti : Effective Refactoring Techniques

Lindsay Murphy and Mehdi tackle a big challenge for data professionals: dealing with old SQL scripts. How can we make messy SQL code easier to read and maintain? We'll discuss pragmatics things you can do, and we'll tackle an example.

YouTube

Quack & Code

SQL

0:03:35

2024-06-12

MotherDuck GA Produck Tour

Produck expert Nathaniel Thompson gives an overview of the MotherDuck cloud data warehouse and then takes you on a tour of executing queries, data profiling with Column Explorer, FixIt AI-powered query correction, dual query execution ++

YouTube

MotherDuck Features

0:35:26

2024-06-07

Why and How we integrated DuckDB & MotherDuck with GoodData

Learn from Jan Soubusta how GoodData integrated DuckDB & MotherDuck within their product! Many thanks to them for hosting this meetup in Prague on May 29th 2024.

YouTube

Ecosystem

1:07:10

2024-05-31

Boosting datasets discoverability for AI using DuckDB

Data is the foundation of any quality model, and discovering the right datasets is a crucial first step. In this Quack & Code session, Mehdi & Andrea Soria from HuggingFace show how to do just that.

YouTube

AI, ML and LLMs

Quack & Code

1:14:57

2024-05-16

DuckDB & Iceberg : The Future of Lightweight Data Management

Join Brian Olsen from Tabular and Mehdi for a quack and code session exploring the world of table formats, with a special focus on Iceberg and DuckDB. They dive into the latest advancements and give a hands-on demonstration.

YouTube

Sources

Quack & Code

Ecosystem

0:57:21

2024-05-10

Ibis: One Library To Query Any Backend

Join Cody from Voltron Data and Mehdi to chat about the Ibis project! Ibis enables a single library to query many backends, including DuckDB, Snowflake, Spark, Polars and more.

YouTube

Ecosystem

0:58:06

2024-05-07

Why CSVs Still Matter: The Indispensable File Format

In this discussion with Mehdi Ouazza and Pedro Holanda from DuckDB, they talk about all things CSVs and dive into a pragmatic example of how the CSV parser works in DuckDB. Enjoy!

YouTube

Sources

0:01:25

2024-04-24

Building Data Apps with MotherDuck

Unlock high-speed data apps with the MotherDuck Wasm SDK, reducing your cloud computing costs and improving latency by running queries in your web browser. 1.5 tier architecture.

YouTube

Wasm

MotherDuck Features

0:52:48

2024-04-22

Local Dev, Cloud Prod with Dagster and MotherDuck

Develop locally and ship to production confidently with Dagster, Evidence, and MotherDuck.

YouTube

Data Pipelines

0:36:24

2024-04-05

Take Flight with dbt and DuckDB, Dropping Dev Warehouse Costs to zero

This discussion between the co-founders of Paradime and MotherDuck talks about using dbt and DuckDB to drop your warehouse development costs to zero, while eliminating sql translation between your dev and prod environments.

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dbt

Ecosystem

0:56:54

2024-03-28

Spatial data management with DuckDB ft. @MattForrest

Mehdi and his guest Matt Forrest quack and code - diving into Geo data with DuckDB and explore the spatial extension.

YouTube

Quack & Code

43:20

2024-03-20

Cube + MotherDuck: Data App Monetization Success

Cube and MotherDuck talk about the MDCuRe stack for building data apps: MotherDuck, Cube, React.

Ecosystem

Webinar

1:11:53

2024-03-15

DuckDB & Mosaic : Interactive Insights on Large datasets

Quack and Code with Dominik Moritz (Carnegie Mellon University / Apple) & Jeffrey Heer (University of Washington) - academics researching and developing data visualization tools used by thousands of people around the world!

YouTube

BI & Visualization

Wasm

0:37:25

2024-03-01

DuckDB & dbt | End-To-End Data Engineering Project (2/3)

@mehdio is taking you to part 2 of this end-to-end data engineering project series: transform data using dbt and DuckDB! You will be leveraging all the in-memory capabilities of DuckDB to smooth your development process and deployment to t

YouTube

Data Pipelines

dbt

Tutorial

Ecosystem

1:07:45

2024-02-29

DuckDB + dbt : Accelerating the developer experience with local power

Hands-on stream with Mehdi Ouazza and Josh Wills discussing how DuckDB can fix the data engineering workflow with dbt while using your local laptop compute power!

YouTube

Ecosystem

Quack & Code

0:21:59

2024-02-19

DuckDB and recommenders : a lightning fast synergy ft. Khalil Muhammad

Khalil Muhammad at the DuckDB meetup in Dublin on 23 January 2024! He shows what DuckDB offers you to move quickly when building recommendation engines and optimizing data modeling for machine learning. Predict user preferences to profit!

YouTube

AI, ML and LLMs

Meetup

Talk

1:01:43

2024-02-15

DuckDB + Streamlit : Crafting Dynamic Dashboards and Data Apps

Want to create dynamic dashboards and data apps with your DuckDB data? Learn from Streamlit Developer Advocate Chanin Natasenamat and Mehdi in this Quack and Code episode.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

Quack & Code

Ecosystem

0:14:35

2024-02-07

Why should you care about DuckDB? ft. Mihai Bojin

Talk from Mihai Bojin at the DuckDB meetup in Dublin on 23 January 2024! Provides overview of big data landscape, data warehouses, DuckDB features and how simplicity always wins!

YouTube

Meetup

Talk

0:41:48

2024-02-02

DuckDB & Python | End-To-End Data Engineering Project (1/3)

Mehdi tackles an end-to-end data engineering project : getting usage insights from a python library using Python, SQL and DuckDB! This is the first part of the series.

YouTube

Python

Tutorial

1:05:37

2024-02-01

SQL IDE Safari : Harlequin, in your terminal.

Join Mehdi and Ted Conner to discuss SQL workflows and SQL IDEs! Ted built the amazing Harlequin SQL IDE which runs in your terminal!

YouTube

SQL

Quack & Code

0:24:56

2024-01-26

Monte Carlo Simulations With DuckDB ft. James McNeill

James McNeill talks about Monte Carlo simulations at the DuckDB meetup in Dublin on 23 January 2024! Take random samples of your data to get efficient statistical answers to your questions.

YouTube

Meetup

Talk

0:00:47

2024-01-22

No SQL standard for 7 years ?!

This short of Mehdi with Alex Monahan discusses the lack of evolution of the SQL standard. “(SQL) stands for Structured Query Language, not Standard Query Language”

YouTube

Short

SQL

0:54:04

2024-01-19

The Power of Wasm for Analytics: DuckDB in the Browser

This Quack & Code session explores Web Assembly (Wasm) use cases for analytics and DuckDB with Mehdi and Christophe Blefari! We discuss Wasm’s future role in data and show a hands-on demo.

YouTube

Wasm

BI & Visualization

0:01:00

2024-01-17

Simple way to convert CSV and Parquet files

Want convert CSV to Parquet or vice versa? In this YouTube short, Mehdi shows you how to convert using DuckDB as a Swiss Army Knife to convert data formats.

YouTube

Short

Tutorial

0:00:56

2024-01-10

Querying Data From S3 With 3 Lines In Your Terminal

This short from Mehdi Ouazza shows you how to use DuckDB to query data from S3 data lakes with 3 lines in your terminal.

YouTube

Short

0:54:38

2024-01-05

Friendly SQL with DuckDB

Explore friendly and even friendlier SQL & DuckDB with Mehdi annd Alex Monahan! They discuss history, its future role in data and show some tips and tricks.

YouTube

SQL

Quack & Code

0:12:50

2023-12-18

The future of BI: Exploring the impact of BI-as-code tools with DuckDB

Mehdi dives into 3 BI-as-code tools (Evidence, Rill, Streamlit) to create beautiful dashboards with DuckDB! Using code for building dashboards from data should delight software engineers!

YouTube

BI & Visualization

Tutorial

0:29:28

2023-12-01

DuckDB Experiments: Peeking into the Future of Analytics ft. Christophe Blefari

Christophe Blefari, freelance Data Engineer, discusses his experiments with DuckDB, focusing particularly on DuckDB Wasm and its potential implications for the future of browser-based analytics.

YouTube

Wasm

Talk

Meetup

0:30:14

2023-11-27

Speed-Querying StackOverflow data with DuckDB ft. Michael Hunger

Explore StackOverflow's vast data with Michael Hunger from Neo4j using DuckDB and MotherDuck. A highlight from the DuckDB Meetup in Berlin Nov 2023. Michael is also the co-author of the book 'DuckDB in action,’ published by Manning.

YouTube

0:10:23

2023-11-16

Making PySpark code faster with DuckDB

Mehdi demonstrates an experimental feature of DuckDB : running PySpark code with DuckDB engine ⚡ Note : This is not yet supported on MotherDuck

YouTube

Python

0:07:46

2023-11-03

Why did we raise now ? CEO Backstage Call 📞

Informal behind-the-scenes exploration with Co-Founder and CEO Jordan Tigani about what's happening at MotherDuck.

YouTube

Interview

0:01:51

2023-10-31

MotherDuck in 100 seconds (by a duck 🦆)

A duck gives you a fast-paced tour of MotherDuck product capabilities and features.

YouTube

MotherDuck Features

00:58:00

2023-10-27

Panel: Fixing the Data Engineering Lifecycle; Coalesce 2023

This panel explores the MDS-in-a-box pattern, which has been a game changer for applying software engineering principles to local data development.

Talk

0:16:49

2023-10-10

Unleashing the Power of DuckDB for Interactive SQL Notebooks

DataCamp’s SQL notebooks, powered by Jupyter Labs and DuckDB. Talk from Rik Bauwens of DataCamp at one of the MotherDuck/DuckDB meetups that happened in September 2023 in Belgium, Leuven.

YouTube

SQL

Talk

Meetup

0:22:26

2023-10-06

Why use DuckDB in your data pipelines ft. Niels Claeys

Want to use DuckDB in your data pipelines? Watch this talk from Niels Claeys of Data Minded at the September 2023 MotherDuck/DuckDB meetup in Belgium, Leuven.

YouTube

Data Pipelines

Meetup

Talk

0:11:01

2023-09-08

DuckDB's Wild Ride in the Open Source World ft. Co-creator Mark Raasveldt

Mehdi interviews Mark Raasveldt, CTO of DuckDB Labs and co-creator of DuckDB just before DuckCon in San Francisco. He aimed to gain some insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of the open-source project. Enjoy the conversation!

YouTube

Interview

0:05:48

2023-09-05

Data Visualisation Tools With DuckDB & MotherDuck - Hex/Preset

Mehdi walks you through two (actually three) data viz tools you can use with @duckdb and MotherDuck: @_hex_tech , @Preset-io & Superset.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

Ecosystem

Tutorial

0:00:51

2023-09-01

Why don't data producers pay attention to how their data is used downstream? 🤔

Short cut from Mehdi’s interview with O’Reilly “Data Engineering” co-author Joe Reis.

YouTube

Short

Interview

0:25:04

2023-08-24

The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly: Navigating the New Waves of Machine Learning ft. Adi Polak

Mehdi chats with Adi Polak, the author of "Scaling Machine Learning with Spark", right after the DATA+AI summit by Databricks in San Francisco. They had an insightful discussion about ML, the basics of data, how LLMs help, ++.

YouTube

Interview

AI, ML and LLMs

0:08:53

2023-06-13

Unleashing DuckDB & dbt for local analytics triumphs

Mehdi does a walkthrough of using DuckDB with dbt, and the features these two frameworks provide when combined by Data and Analytics engineers.

YouTube

dbt

Ecosystem

0:12:05

2023-06-01

DuckDB vs Pandas vs Polars For Python devs

Enjoy this ducking great walkthrough of DuckDB, Polars and Pandas. We discuss the main features and dive into a pragmatic code example.

YouTube

Python

Tutorial

0:29:00

2023-05-12

Beyond Data Engineering ft. Joe Reis

Mehdi sat down with O’Reilly author Joe Reis to discuss different aspects of data engineering. They touched on the fears surrounding data, the critical role of communication, and more.

YouTube

Interview

Data Pipelines

0:00:50

2023-05-02

Working with SQL with your favorite editor ? Check this 👉

Create VSCode shortcuts for making it easy to send your SQL queries to DuckDB for execution in the integrated terminal.

YouTube

SQL

Short

0:00:57

2023-04-23

The magic of DuckDB extensions for data engineering and analytics 🪄

This short from Mehdi Ouazza talks about DuckDB for OLAP and how DuckDB extensions are installed and loaded.

YouTube

Short

0:52:01

2023-04-20

Big Data: Funeral or Renaissance?

Jordan Tigani of MotherDuck and Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder debate whether Big Data is Dead or not, inspired by Jordan’s blog post.

YouTube

Stream

0:11:25

2023-04-04

DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners

Mehdi covers all the basics to get you up and running with DuckDB! Enjoy learning about installation, working flow, ecosystem and doing your first analysis.

YouTube

Tutorial

0:00:57

2023-03-09

Making an impact with a research project: DuckDB

In this short, DuckDB co-creator Hannes talks about applying database research to building database systems and achieve real impact.

YouTube

Interview

Short

0:07:35

2023-03-06

The Surprising Birth Of DuckDB ft. Co-creator Hannes Mühleisen

In this first Quack Chat episode, Mehdi interviews Hannes Mühleisen, co-creator of DuckDB, in Brussels during DuckCon.

YouTube

Interview

Short