Videos and Online Events

"Data-based: Going Beyond the Dataframe" video thumbnail

2025-11-20

Data-based: Going Beyond the Dataframe

Learn how to turbocharge your Python data work using DuckDB and MotherDuck with Pandas. We walk through performance comparisons, exploratory data analysis on bigger datasets, and an end-to-end ML feature engineering pipeline.

Webinar

Python

AI, ML and LLMs

"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

"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

"Taming file zoos: Data science with DuckDB database files" video thumbnail

2025-06-02

Taming file zoos: Data science with DuckDB database files

Tame "file zoos" with DuckDB! This talk reveals how DuckDB seamlessly integrates with Python to read/write diverse files (CSV, Parquet), organize data efficiently, enable larger-than-memory analysis, and streamline your workflows.

Python

Talk

"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

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

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

"Making PySpark code faster with DuckDB" video thumbnail

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

"DuckDB vs Pandas vs Polars For Python devs" video thumbnail

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