Videos and Online Events

"The MCP Sessions - Vol 2: Supply Chain Analytics" video thumbnail

2026-01-21

The MCP Sessions - Vol 2: Supply Chain Analytics

Jacob and Alex from MotherDuck query data using the MotherDuck MCP. Watch as they analyze 180,000 rows of shipment data through conversational AI, uncovering late delivery patterns, profitability insights, and operational trends with no SQL required!

Stream

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

BI & Visualization

Tutorial

"LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics" video thumbnail

2025-11-19

LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics

LLMs excel at natural language understanding but struggle with factual accuracy when aggregating business data. Ryan Boyd explores the architectural patterns needed to make LLMs work effectively alongside analytics databases.

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

Talk

Python

BI & Visualization

"The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data" video thumbnail

2025-11-05

The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data

MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani shares why we built our data warehouse for small data first, not big data. Learn about designing for the bottom left quadrant, hypertenancy, and why scale doesn't define importance.

Talk

MotherDuck Features

Ecosystem

SQL

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

"In the Long Run, Everything is a Fad" video thumbnail

2025-11-05

In the Long Run, Everything is a Fad

Benn Stancil uses Olympics gymnastics scoring to argue data's quantification obsession is generational. We went from vibes to math and may return to AI-powered vibes. Will dashboards matter to the next generation?

Talk

BI & Visualization

"Can DuckDB replace your data stack?" video thumbnail

60:00

2025-10-23

Can DuckDB replace your data stack?

MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd joins the Super Data Brothers show to talk about all things DuckDB, MotherDuck, AI agents/LLMs, hypertenancy and more.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

Interview

"DuckDB At Scale" video thumbnail

2025-09-24

DuckDB At Scale

DuckDB is loved by SQL-ophiles for small data workloads. How do you make it scale? What happens when you feed it Big Data? What is DuckLake? This talk answers these questions from real-world experience running DuckDB in the cloud.

MotherDuck Features

SQL

Talk

BI & Visualization

Python

"AI Powered BI: Can LLMs REALLY Generate Your Dashboards? ft. Michael Driscoll" video thumbnail

2025-05-20

AI Powered BI: Can LLMs REALLY Generate Your Dashboards? ft. Michael Driscoll

Discover how business intelligence is evolving from drag-and-drop tools to code-based, AI-powered workflows—leveraging LLMs, DuckDB, and local development for faster, more flexible analytics.

YouTube

AI, ML and LLMs

BI & Visualization

" Is BI Too Big for Small Data?" video thumbnail

17:03

2024-11-17

Is BI Too Big for Small Data?

BI tools promise deep insights, but most teams only get noise. Discover why the classic data story fails and how a new small-data playbook can help you find real meaning in your metrics.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

"A duck in the hand is worth two in the cloud" video thumbnail

33:49

2024-11-08

A duck in the hand is worth two in the cloud

What if I told you that you could complete a JSON parse and extract task on your laptop before a distributed compute cluster even finishes booting up?

YouTube

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

SQL

Python

Talk

"A new paradigm for data visualization with just SQL + Markdown" video thumbnail

1:00:53

2024-09-24

A new paradigm for data visualization with just SQL + Markdown

Come to this Quack&Code where Mehdi will discuss data visualization with DuckDB/MotherDuck, specifically focusing on Evidence! Archie, who is building evidence.dev, will join us to share his wisdom on charts ;-)

BI & Visualization

YouTube

Quack & Code

"Moving Forward from Ad Hoc Reports with DuckDB and MotherDuck" video thumbnail

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

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

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

"Unfinished Business: Re-inventing 'modern' data tools" video thumbnail

2024-05-01

Unfinished Business: Re-inventing 'modern' data tools

Watch Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck) and Colin Zima (Omni) for a 🦆 quackingly 🦆 candid discussion about what the last generation of data tools got right and wrong, and why they both think they can build something even better this time.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

Interview

"DuckDB & Mosaic : Interactive Insights on Large datasets" video thumbnail

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

"DuckDB + Streamlit : Crafting Dynamic Dashboards and Data Apps" video thumbnail

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

"The Power of Wasm for Analytics: DuckDB in the Browser" video thumbnail

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

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

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

"Data Visualisation Tools With DuckDB & MotherDuck - Hex/Preset" video thumbnail

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